Engaging the Public: The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village (39DV2), an Initial Middle Missouri site in the James River valley of southeastern South Dakota, serves as the platform for this presentation. The site boasts both a museum with a variety of exhibits relating to Plains Village cultures and a facility called the Archeodome, which is a teaching and research center. The Archeodome encloses an area of some 14,000 square feet of excavation surface, encompassing the remains of several of the site's earth lodges. The Archeodome, which also houses exhibits and laboratory space, allows visitors to observe active archeological excavations and to interact with professional archeologists and students as they prepare artifacts for analysis and curation. The Archeodome opened in 1999 and has been the site of 15 seasons of a month-long international field school with a team of students from Augustana University (Sioux Falls, SD) and the University of Exeter (Exeter England).

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26033