Buresh site
{{short description|Archaeological site in Kansas, US}}
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| name = Buresh site (14SR303)
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| nearest_city= Caldwell, Kansas{{cite web |title=National and State Registers of Historic Places |url=https://www.kshs.org/natreg/natreg_listings/search/county:SU |website=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate=9 December 2018}}
| locmapin = Kansas#USA
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| area = {{convert|9|acre|ha}}
| refnum = 71000333{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
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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.
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.Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 22. Witty excavated the remains of four houses here. Two houses are square, one is oval, and one is rectangular.Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 3.
The site yielded rounded ceramic jars and bowls, mainly tempered with sand or bone.
Radiocarbon dating estimated AD 1050 as the date of the site, but the dating method was deemed unreliable.
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References
- {{cite web|url=https://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/1542/t07100.pdf?sequence=3|title=The Armstrong Site: Defining the Bluff Creek Phase for Southcentral Kansas |publisher=Wichita State University|author=Marcia Lynn Meier |date=2004 |accessdate=December 9, 2018}} (PDF)
{{National Register of Historic Places}}
Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Sumner County, Kansas
Category:Plains Village period
Category:Former Native American populated places in the United States
Category:Native American history of Kansas
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