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
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Great Bend aspect, Lower Walnut focus
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Plains Village
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Woodland
Material
Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Dating Sample
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Fauna
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Fire Cracked Rock
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Ground Stone
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Human Remains
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Macrobotanical
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Metal
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Shell
Site Name
Arkansas City Country Club, 14CO3
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Havelock, 14CO332
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Killdeer, 14CO501
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Larcom-Haggard, 14CO1
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Living the Dream, 14CO332
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Radio Lane, 14CO385
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Shrope, 14CO331
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Thompson Gardens, 14CO1509
Site Type
Archaeological Feature
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Artifact Scatter
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Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Hearth
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Midden
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Pit
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Post Hole / Post Mold
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Bioarchaeological Research
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Data Recovery / Excavation
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Ethnographic Research
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Ethnohistoric Research
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Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
General
Ancestral Wichita
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Arkansas City, Kansas
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Great Bend aspect
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Late Prehistoric
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Lower Walnut focus
Geographic Keywords
Central Plains Area
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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