Kansas State University Libraries New Prairie Press 2020 - The Flint Hills: Rooted In Stone (Larry Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal Patton, editor) Native-Made Stone Tools Of The Flint Hills Jack L. Hofman Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/sfh Recommended Citation Hofman, Jack L. (2020). "Native-Made Stone Tools Of The Flint Hills," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2020/history/2 To order hard copies of the Field Journals, go to shop.symphonyintheflinthills.org. The Field Journals are made possible in part with funding from the Fred C. and Mary R. Koch Foundation. This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences at New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. NATIVE-MADE STONE TOOLS OF THE FLINT HILLS For more than 13,000 years, people have been living in the Flint Hills region. For most of this period, their primary material for making tough, durable tools was the flint or “chert” stone from which the Flint Hills derive their name. The use of bone, wood, antler, and limestone was also important, but the most durable and preserved aspects of these early technologies are the chipped stone tools and the debitage or flakes left from the manufacture of those tools. The economies of the prehistoric cultural groups who lived in the Flint Hills were diverse, changing through time and adjusting to the seasons and resource availability.