Buresh site

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Buresh site (14SR303)
Nearest cityCaldwell, Kansas[2]
Area9 acres (3.6 ha)
NRHP reference No.71000333[1]
Added to NRHPMay 14, 1971[2]

The Buresh Archeological Site (14SR303), near Caldwell in Sumner County, Kansas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in on May 14, 1971.[1][2]

The Buresh site is part of here Bluff Creek complex, defined by archaeologist Tom Witty, part of the Middle Ceramic period and possibly related to the Washita focus of Oklahoma.[3] Witty excavated the remains of four houses here. Two houses are square, one is oval, and one is rectangular.[4]

The site yielded rounded ceramic jars and bowls, mainly tempered with sand or bone.[3]

Radiocarbon dating estimated AD 1050 as the date of the site, but the dating method was deemed unreliable.[4]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "National and State Registers of Historic Places". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 22.
  4. ^ a b Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 3.

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