Hickey Brothers Site (39LM4) (Site Name Keyword)
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This report summarizes the results of an intensive archeological reconnaissance of the proposed Big Bend Reservoir of central South Dakota. The survey was carried out as a part of the continuing program of the Missouri Basin project, Smithsonian Institution, which is directed toward the recovery of aboriginal and historical remains threatened by hydroelectric, flood control, and reclamation development of the Missouri River system. The Big Bend Reservoir will be one of several artificial lakes...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 36: Archeological Investigations at the Hickey Brothers Site (39LM4), Big Bend Reservoir, Lyman County, South Dakota (1964)
The Hickey Brothers site (39LM4) was excavated during the summer of 1958 as part of the investigations of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, within the projected Big Bend Reservoir of central South Dakota. The site was approached with every expectation of adding materially to the corpus of data bearing upon the "middle period" of village occupation along the Missouri main stem. The Hickey Brothers site appeared to be particularly important because it was fortified in a...
River Basin Surveys Papers: Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program, No. 33-38 (1964)
These papers include reports on archaeological sites surveyed and excavated as part of the Smithsonian Institute's River Basin Survey. Numbers 33-38 include sites from salvage archaeology projects from the construction of the Oahe Reservoir and Big Bend Reservoir in South Dakota and the Toronto Reservoir in Kansas.