Name/Title
Resorted MaterialEntry/Object ID
2001.15.3836Description
23BN1
Materials resorted from a box previously designated for repatriation per NAGPRA guidelines. Box was labeled to contain 1 MNI. Upon evaluation, box was determined to contain no human remains. Box was emptied, material sorted into several ziplock bags. Material was stored with wood chips and artifacts had to be sorted from the woodchips. There is one bag that is larger artifact fragments with no wood chips, four bags of wood chips (there will be a few smaller artifacts in the bags), and 14 bags of very small artifacts with wood chips still mixed in. Material similar to other material from same excavation labeled as "screened material". It is a mixture of pebbles, small bone fragments, charcoal, shell, seeds, etc. Some larger bone fragments show signs of working and cut marks. Material is stored in FIVE boxes. All boxes given the same accession number so all material is identified as coming from the same NAGPRA repatriation box, as there was no way to otherwise indicate the material was stored together.
Previous records indicate that 01.15.01-01.15.25 have been deaccessioned for NAGPRA. Those accession numbers have been identified as being screened and sorted material from the 23BN1 King Hill excavations of 1966/1970. Hypothesis being this is that material due to its similarity to other screened material from the site.
Total: 5 boxes
Total: 19 bagsCollection
23BN1Ethnography
Culture/Tribe
Kaw Nation
Native American
Notes
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Search Terms
Archaeological, 23BN1, King Hill, Faunal RemainsProvenance
Notes
The King Hill Site (23BN1) is located in a residential area of the city of St. Joseph, Missouri. The archaeological site is situated on top of a high, west facing bluff overlooking the Missouri River Valley. It was excavated by members of the St. Joseph Chapter of the Missouri Archaeological Society and the Summer Field School of the University of Missouri - Columbia over a 10 day period in the summer of 1966 under a cooperative agreement with the St. Joseph Museum. Work was continued in the fall of that year and into the next by the St. Joseph Chapter. Additional work was conducted at the site by the University of Nebraska.
Pottery and limited trade goods in the upper levels indicate a late Oneota, early historic occupation, possibly by the Kansa tribe, about AD 1700. The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1968 and a preliminary report was issued that same year. In 1972 further excavations, funded by the National Science Foundation, were undertaken by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Missouri Field School and the University of Nebraska excavations were directed by Dr. Dale R. Henning" (Cutler and Blake 1982).
Information gathered from: http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/kinghill.html