Wednesday, September 12, 1979
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University Daily Kansan
Big dig
Mary Ada Kaina Kanaus City, Ms., graduate student, and Rick Roberts, Pasacagua City, grad, graduate student, examine a few of
the artifacts found by a KU archeology team this summer near EL Dorade. The team was composed of 45 undergraduate and graduate students and invited guests.
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By HAROLD CAMPBELL
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Students unearth Kansas' past
Prehistoric and frontier artifacts were uncovered by 45 University of Kansas graduate and undergraduate students this spring. An excavation site 10 miles northeast of El Dorado.
Some Indian artifacts, according to Mary Adair, co-director of the project and Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, have been dated as early as 250 B.C.
The excavation, funded by the Army Corps of Engineers, has been carried on by KU students since 1976. Adair said.
"There will be no way we can excavate all that is there to be excavated," she said. "There is just not enough time or money."
She said KU would hold digging at the site next summer and would investigate other sites.
Any group working at the E辽 Dorida sites would have to finish the excavation by 1881, she said, because the lake, now dry, will be flooded by a reservoir.
ACCORDING TO Rick Roberts, project co-director, artifacts recovered, such as spear points, show that the area's first inhabitants were hunters and gatherers.
Adair said bison and deer bones found showed that the prehistoric inhabitants of the area were primarily meat eaters.
She said the location of the site in the Flint Hills explained the abundance of flint instruments found.
Not much evidence of the social life or culture of the prehistoric or later-era Indians could be found. Roberts said.
In fact, he said it would be difficult to refer to the nomadic prehistoric Indians of the area as tribes.
"FROM WHAT WE can gather, we can't tell if the prehistoric Indians were organized into a tribal structure with fixed chiefs. We know that prehistoric Indians would probably be group."
However, Adair said, the KU group found
About that time, she said, the Indians in the area were beginning to develop agriculture and were changing their nomadic way of life.
evidence of a house dating from about 950 A.D.
"We can't tell why the Indians changed from being nomads to farmers," she said. "That is one of the heated debates being carried on in now anthropology."
For the period from 1249 to the 1850s, the excavation drew a blank spot. Roberts said.
"For some reason, we have not uncovered any artifacts from that period. We don't know why."
"In fact, we found two Chesleys," he said. "The first town named Chesley was moved a better location was found and the second town, county seat was moved to El Dorado."
The main recovery from the period 1850 to 1870, he said, was the remains of Chelsea, Butter County's first county seat.
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