Artifact Highlights from the Yeo Site (23CL199): A Kansas City Hopewell Site

The St. Louis Veterans Curation Program has close to 50 investigations currently being processed in our lab. One of these investigations is from the Smithville Lake Project area in the Kansas City District. This investigation alone contains materials from 27 different sites including the Yeo Site (23CL199) and dates from the late 6th to 7th century A.D. The site was excavated by Kansas State University archaeologists ca. July 1976 and this past year, veteran technicians began processing the materials. The technicians came across many diagnostic artifacts, including a largely intact ceramic bowl and cup, ceramic rims, bone awls, and projectile points. Their work combined with the materials still to be processed in our archives will be available on The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) and aid future researchers interested in the only known single component Kansas City Hopewell site within Smithville Lake.