North Dakota (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
5,326-5,350 (6,720 Records)
Continuing its studies of the archeological and paleontological materials that will be adversely affected by the expanding Federal watercontrol program in the Missouri River watershed, the Missouri River Basin Survey carried on its field and laboratory activities throughout calendar year 1949. For various reasons the year was an unusually trying one, even frustrating in some respects; but within the limit of available funds and in the face of a rapidly changing personnel picture, a measure of...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 30: Stutsman Focus: An Aboriginal Culture Complex In the Jamestown Reservoir Area, North Dakota (1963)
In this paper I propose to detail the returns from two partially excavated and eight unexcavated aboriginal occupation sites in the James River Valley, North Dakota; to combine the findings into a new culture complex, which I am calling the Stutsman Focus; and to suggest the cultural affinities and temporal placement of the Stutsman Focus, following the broad historical approach. The investigations which produced the field data reported herein were part of the archeological salvage work...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 33: Paul Brave Site (32SI4), Oahe Reservoir Area, North Dakota (1964)
In 1947 an archeological field party, sponsored by the University of North Dakota and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, carried out excavations in the upper limits of the Oahe Reservoir, in North Dakota. Test excavations were made at the Paul Brave site (32SI4). also known as the Fort Yates site. The elevation of this prehistoric village is between 1,600 and 1,610 feet. The site will be flooded by the Oahe Reservoir when backwater reaches the maximum pool level of 1,620 feet. The...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 34: The Demery Site (39CO1), Oahe Reservoir Area, South Dakota (1964)
In the summer of 1956 an archeological field party from the State Historical Society of North Dakota carried out excavations at the Demery site, in the upper part of the Oahe Reservoir, in Corson County, South Dakota. Funds for the project were provided under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and through appropriations by the North Dakota State Legislature. The excavations were conducted between June 18 and August 31, 1956, under the supervision...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 39: An Interpretation of Mandan Culture History (1967)
This study presents the results of a field excavation and subsequent research project which investigated the major hypothesis that Mandan Indian culture emerged about A.D. 1500 under the impact of trade and contact with semisedentary village peoples from the Central Plains, and with adjacent pedestrian nomads. The research began with an intensive analysis of the material from the Huff Site (32M011) in the upper Middle Missouri area. Huff is a prehistoric Indian site enclosed by a rectangular...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 9: Archeological Investigations in the Heart Butte Reservoir Area North Dakota (1954)
The investigations upon which this report is based were carried out as a part of the inter-agency salvage program in the Missouri Basin and reflect the cooperation of a number of agencies and individuals. The work was instigated by the plan of the Bureau of Reclamation to construct the Heart Butte Dam, a unit of the comprehensive water-resources development program under the Pick-Sloan plan. The dam, now completed, is on the Heart River south of Glen Ullin, North Dakota., and is designed to...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 1-6 (1953)
The Inter-Agency program for the recovery of archeological and paleontological remains which would otherwise be lost as a result of the numerous projects for Hood control, irrigation, hydroelectric installations, and navigation improvements in the river basins of the United States got under way in 1946 as a cooperative effort on the part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army. Preliminary steps...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 15-20 (1960)
In the present volume of River Basin Surveys papers there are six reports pertaining to a phase of the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program which thus far has not been given as much publicity as some of the other activities. The articles deal with a series of historic sites investigations which were carried. on in the Fort Randall and Garrison Reservoir areas and in the spillway area below the Oshe Dam. The field investigations were based on extensive documentary studies which were made...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 26-32 (1963)
The seven reports which comprise the present volume of River Basin Surveys Papers pertain to work which was done in four reservoir areas in the Missouri Basin. Two of the reservoirs are located in North Dakota, one in Montana, and one in Kansas. The North Dakota reservoirs are the Garrison on the main stem of the Missouri River, located some distance above Bismarck, and the Jamestown on the James River above the town of Jamestown in the eastern part of the State. The Montana reservoir is the...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 9-14 (1958)
The six reports which fonn the contents of this volume of the River Basin Surveys Papers are based on the results of field investigations carried on as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Three of the articles are concerned with projects in the Missouri Basin and three with studies made in the Georgia-Florida area. Three reservoirs were involved in the Missouri Basin and two in Georgia-Florida. The work at two Missouri Basin reservoirs was done by field parties under the...
The River Basin Surveys: Studying Twentieth Century Archaeological Investigations and their Nineteenth Century Subjects (2017)
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase included most of the present-day states of North and South Dakota. I study the US colonization of this area, particularly the Upper Missouri Basin. During the mid-twentieth century the Smithsonian’s River Basin Surveys (RBS) program investigated several nineteenth century historic sites associated with the earliest US presence in the area including fur trade posts, US military and government establishments, and sites associated with US settlement. I study RBS...
River cane fishing gear (2012)
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The River Overlook Fortifications on Bemus Heights at Saratoga NHP (2016)
The fortification of Bemus Heights at Saratoga by the Americans during the Revolutionary War was engineered by Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish military engineer who had taken up the American cause at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Kosciusko designed the fortifications on Bemus Heights at the River Overlook to oppose the British plan to advance to Albany along the River Road. In 2009, a geophysical study was conducted on one of the River Fortification elements in Kosciusko’s defense...
The River Street Digital History Project (2015)
Race relations remains a central issue in American politics, economics, and culture. Interactions between African Americans and Euroamericans has been a focal point of historical archaeology for the last 30 years. The River Street Digital History Project is centered on the River Street Neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, which was the historical home for most of the town’s non-white population. This research asks: what role did race play in the lives of River Street Neighborhood residents; how did the...
Riverdale Sewage and the Attempted Cultural Resource Survey (1979)
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Riverine Resource Subsistence in Early to Middle Woodland Saginaw Valley, Michigan: An Investigation of Site 20SA1427 (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the terminal Early to late-Middle Woodland periods (500 BC – AD 500), Native groups living in the central Saginaw Valley of Michigan dramatically shifted subsistence strategies from a reliance on medium to large game, to a focus on aquatic resources. Regional sites illustrate this shift, though from the point of deposition in central domestic spaces,...
Riverine Site Formation Process of Steamboat Wreck Sites in the Western United States (2013)
Museum exhibits for both the artifact collections of both the steamboats Arabia and Bertrand liken the steamboat wrecks as time capsules, preserving moments frozen in time. For an archaeologist, it oversimplifies the nature of shipwrecks to regard them as a moments frozen in time. This study examines the dynamic riverine site formation process of steamboat wreck sites in the western United States, considering the cultural and environmental factors that impact such sites. The cultural and...
The Road From Big Rock Candy Mountain: Boomsurfer Strategies in the American West (2015)
People living across the broader West struggled for over a century to deal with both economic and ecological instability and unpredictability. Developing industrial capitalism fluctuated radically in this period, especially in a region where its large-scale extractive industries voraciously exploited environments that were often already fragile and marginal for large-scale settlement. For at least some sector of the population, responses to these challenges tended to emphasize stability and...
The Road to Wealth: How the EP & NE Railroad Changed New Mexico (2017)
The EP & NE rail system in New Mexico was built between1898 and 1903. This railroad system immediately became a critical economic force, opening an uninhabited frontier of deserts and mountain forests to exploitation. The EP & NE system also comprised an immense sociopolitical machine that controlled vast lands, timber and mineral resources, water rights, and towns. This talk discusses the historical context for the railroad, and its impact on the settlement of eastern New Mexico. Archeological...
Roads and Landscape Dynamics on Monticello's Mountaintop (2015)
Between 1770 and his death in 1826, Thomas Jefferson expended vast resources building and altering Monticello mansion and the surrounding landscape. Roads and paths were integral parts of the resulting system, which was engineered to manage the movement of family members, elite visitors, and free and enslaved workers. This paper offers new insights from archaeological research into the shifting configuration of elite and service access routes to the house and the artificial landscape that they...
Roadside America in the West: History along the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail (2015)
The highways and byways of the Colorado/New Mexico borderlands are dotted with publicly funded roadside interpretive signs providing a short history of the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. The goal of these signs is commemoration and education of the traveling public, yet the facts are questionable and nuances are flattened. Must accuracy be sacrificed to achieve brevity and accessibility? The time has come to challenge the roadside nationalist narrative in favor of one that people who...
Roast of the Century (1994)
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Roast of the Century: Mescal and The Mescalero Apache (2001)
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Robert J. Walker Shipwreck Mapping Project (2016)
The Robert J Walker a paddlewheel steamshipin the service US Coast Survey, and predecessor to NOAA Office of Coast Survey, before it was lost after a collision at sea in 1860. The wreck, identified in 2013 by NOAA was placed on the US National Parks Service, National Register of Historic Places. To document and protect the site, NOAA requested that a consortium of groups undertake the archaeological site work as a cooperative operation between governmental, non-governmental and academic...
Robert L. Schuyler and the Emergence of an Archaeology of Ethnicity: "A topic of interest to both the profession and the public" (2017)
Robert Schuyler has been at the forefront, not only of historical archaeology, but also the archaeology of ethnicity. Although historical archaeology had examined intercultural settings (the very stuff of ethnicity) from its inception, these themes were under-articulated in its early years. One of the earliest steps towards a research agenda was Schuyler’s edited volume Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in America. This paper examines the themes of his contributions to that...