2021 Fall Newsletter

NEBO HILL PHASE The Nebo Hill phase existed during the Late Ar chaic Period and lasted from 2600 BC to 1000 BC. As the figure below indicates, this culture ex isted in an area that encompasses parts of Ne braska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and is thought to be ancestral to the later Kansas City Hopewel lian culture.

Findings from the Bull Creek area indicate possi ble continuous occupation at least during the 800 year span between 2000 BC and 1260 BC. Nebo Hill people lived in large and small oval hous es that included solid walls with hearths. Houses likely provided shelter for 2 nuclear families. The Nebo Hill people may have used these sites for winter camps or to process summer harvests. These people utilized Horticulture, had Twined Fiber Fabrics, and fired clay artifacts including Fiber Tempered Pottery, Human Effigy figurines, as well as flexed human and dog burials, indicate some sort of religious associations. Flexed burial refers to the type of burial, in which the legs of the deceased are flexed at angles

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A very distinctive artifact from this time period is the Lanceolate Projectile Points.

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Other artifacts include Contracting Stemmed Points,

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