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Three obsidian flakes were recovered from the multicomponent Infinity site (14MY305) in southeast Kansas. Two flakes large enough(> 1 em) for provenance analysis via x-ray fluorescence were manufactured from obsidian of the Malad, Idaho, chemical type. Over time, the flakes have come to be explicitly associated with the Middle Woodland Havana tradition Cuesta phase and have been used to link it, improbably, to the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. While a Cuesta phase association cannot be ruled out, other possibilities exist, especially an association with the sites Pomona variant component.

A number of Plains archaeological studies address the idea that Dhegihan origins are from archaeological complexes found in the four state area comprised of southeast Kansas, southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas, and northeast Oklahoma. This study first assesses those arguments using both the archaeological and historical records. The last part of the study discusses the implications of such arguments for Dhegihan material and nonmaterial culture. It is concluded that Dhegihan societies have proven hard to trace archaeologically because they were likely very late in arriving on the Plains. Dhegihan origins are more likely to lie in Oneota or the disintegration of Mississippian tradition societies.