Unidentified Bone

Object/Artifact

-

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Unidentified Bone

Entry/Object ID

2001.15.108

Description

23BN1 King Hill Site Bag 666 Square 5 Level 8 Unidentified Bone Count 1 bag Bone fragments, some worked/charred Bag reads: 23BN1 Bag #666 M Ruppert; 7/24/72 Sq 5, Level 8 42"-48" Unidentifiable bone Greater than 1.4" KBM

Use

Archaeological Excavation

Context

Archaeological Excavation From King Hill Site

Collection

23BN1

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Location

23 BN 1

County

Buchanan County

State/Province

Missouri

Culture/Tribe

Kaw Nation
Native American

Notes

See "Weblinks" for more information on Kaw Nation

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Fragment

Nomenclature Category

Category 10: Unclassifiable Objects

Search Terms

Faunal remains, Worked bone

Material

Bone

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

M. Ruppert

Web Links and URLs

STLCC.edu, Kaw Nation

Provenance

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