39LM57 (Site Name Keyword)
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From July 19 to November 3 in 1930 a survey and excavation program was carried on to locate and if possible determine the physical appearance of historic sites which will shortly be flooded in the Fort Randall Reservoir area. An important feature of the program was to photograph the ruins and gather representative artifacts from each, to be placed in museums to help portray the site’s history. The work was carried on for the National Park Service by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the...
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS, CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION, BONE COLLAGEN EXTRACTION, AND AMS RADIOCARBON AGE DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES FROM THE FORT LOOKOUT II SITE (39LM0057), LYMAN COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA (2015)
The Fort Lookout II site (39LM57) is a multicomponent site located on an MT-1 terrace along the eroding west bank of the Missouri River (Lake Francis Case) at the southern end of the Fort Hale bottoms, Lyman County, South Dakota. Archaeological investigations at the site include excavations in 1950, 1951, 1986, 1999, and 2001. The site demonstrates village occupation during the Initial Middle Missouri as well as subsequent historic components (Katherine Lamie, personal communication March 2,...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 17: The Excavation and Investigation of Fort Lookout Trading Post II (39LM57) in the Fort Randall Reservoir, South Dakota (1960)
The purpose of this paper is to report on the archeology of the multiple components of Site 39LM57 in South Dakota, for which Mr. Mattes has provided the historical background in River Basin Surveys Paper No. 15. Starting in the uppermost level were the remains of Fort Lookout II, probably established in 1831 by the French Fur Trading Co. and subsequently occupied, 1840-51, by the trader La Barge. Below them were traces of two prehistoric aboriginal horizons. The excavations were carried on in...