Re-examining the Missouri River Fur Trade: Comparing Artifact Assemblages from Trade Post Collections

Author(s): Lotte E Govaerts

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

When a series of large dams was built along the Missouri River in the mid-twentieth century, large scale archaeological surveys and excavations took place in areas to be flooded. Collections associated with these archaeological investigations are stored in repositories across the country. New information can be extracted from these "old" collections by applying new analysis techniques and by incorporating new data. Among the many archaeological sites investigated along the Missouri river in the mid-twentieth century are several sites associated with nineteenth century fur trade posts. I compare artifact assemblages from six such sites in North and South Dakota, to show how similarities and differences between them relate to local and global contexts of the fur trade, and the expanding U.S. presence in the area.

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Re-examining the Missouri River Fur Trade: Comparing Artifact Assemblages from Trade Post Collections. Lotte E Govaerts. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449118)

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min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 360