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BONE, CERAMIC, SHELL &
STONE ARTIFACTS
MITCHELL PREHISTORIC INDIAN VILLAGE SITE
A.D. 1000
SOUTH DAKOTA
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31, 2011 PETER A. BOSTROM
All of the artifacts in this picture were found during the
excavation of the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village Site in South
Dakota. They date to approximately A.D. 1000. These are typical
examples of food processing, hunting and ornamental tools that were
in use by farming communities over a wide area of North America
during this period. They are made of bone, ceramic, shell and stone materials.
The artifacts in this picture include several decorated rim sherds
that were
once parts of bowls and jars that held and processed different types
of food. Several deer and bison bone tools are also represented in the form of bone awls, a serrated flesher tool,
fishhooks, a squash scrapper and a notched bone point. Several shell
ornaments mostly in the form of beads are illustrated and the
stone tools are represented by 34 arrow points, 3 perforators, 3
end-scrapers and 2 ground stone ungrooved axes (celts).
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