The Arkansas City Project, South Central Kansas, USA

Summary

Documentation of excavations of a related group of Late Prehistoric, pre-contact, ancestral Wichita Great Bend aspect archaeological sites. Excavations were conducted 1994-1996 by the Kansas State Historical Society (now Kansas Historical Society) in advance of highway and levee construction to mitigate the impacts of the projects as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.

Cite this Record

The Arkansas City Project, South Central Kansas, USA. ( tDAR id: 372311) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8CV4K4F

Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Wichita • Great Bend aspect, Lower Walnut focus • Plains Village • Woodland

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Metal • Shell

Site Name
Arkansas City Country Club, 14CO3 • Havelock, 14CO332 • Killdeer, 14CO501 • Larcom-Haggard, 14CO1 • Living the Dream, 14CO332 • Radio Lane, 14CO385 • Shrope, 14CO331 • Thompson Gardens, 14CO1509

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Hearth • Midden • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Bioarchaeological Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Ethnographic Research • Ethnohistoric Research • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan

General
Ancestral Wichita • Arkansas City, Kansas • Great Bend aspect • Late Prehistoric • Lower Walnut focus

Geographic Keywords
Central Plains Area • Southern Plains

Temporal Keywords
Late Prehistoric-Protohistoric, Historic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1400 to 1700

Spatial Coverage

min long: -97.027; min lat: 37.074 ; max long: -97.007; max lat: 37.096 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Robert J. Hoard

Source Collections

Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66615, 785.272.8681

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-26 of 26)

Documents

  1. Appendix 8.3: Feature Plan Views and Cross-Sections. (2012)
  2. Archeological Investigations at Arkansas City, Kansas (2012)
  3. Revised Archeological Treatment Plan for Sites Affected by the Arkansas City Bypass and Levee Project. (1995)

Datasets

  1. Appendix 10.2: Obsidian (2012)
  2. Appendix 10.3: Turquoise (2012)
  3. Appendix 11.10. Provenience and Comparisons of Cord-Marked Sand-Tempered Shards (2012)
  4. Appendix 11.11. Provenience of Balls, Coils and Lumps of Clay (2012)
  5. Appendix 11.1: Provenience of Pinch Pot Sherds (2012)
  6. Appendix 11.2: Provenience of Modified Jar Sherds (2012)
  7. Appendix 11.3: Proveneince of Scored and Broken Sherds (2012)
  8. Appendix 11.4: Provenience of Punctated Sherds (2012)
  9. Appendix 11.5: Provenience of Incised and Trailed Sherds (2012)
  10. Appendix 11.6: Shell Tempered Cord-marked Sherds (2012)
  11. Appendix 11.7. Provenience of Red-Slipped Sherds (2012)
  12. Appendix 11.8. Provenience of Shell-Tempered Caddoan Sherds (2012)
  13. Appendix 11.9. Provenience and Comparisons of Plain Sand-Tempered Sherds (2012)
  14. Appendix 13.1. Indentifiable and non-identifiable fauna. (2012)
  15. Appendix 13.2: MNE and MNI by site and by species (2012)
  16. Appendix 13.3: Butchering marks by site and species (2012)
  17. Appendix 13.4. Use Classification of Selected Features Based on Faunal Remains. (2012)
  18. Appendix 15.1. Macroscopic archaeobotanical remains (2012)
  19. Appendix 41.1. Shell by Depth. (2012)
  20. Appendix 7.1, Feature descriptions and dimensions (2012)
  21. Appendix 8.1: All artifact classes, all features (2012)
  22. Appendix 8.2:All Artifact Classes from Sampled Features (2012)
  23. Appendix10.1: Distribution of Nonlocal Stone, Debitage and Tools (2012)