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A Preliminary Report on the Thomas Riggs Village Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

E. E. Meleen
E. E. Meleen*
Affiliation:
University Museum, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota
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The Thomas Riggs village site is located along the east bank of the Missouri River on the ranch of the late Thomas L. Riggs in the SW¼ NW¼ Section 27, Township 112 North, Range 81 West, Hughes County, South Dakota (Fig. 74). It is approximately 10 miles above the proposed site of the Oahe Dam and will fall well within the limits of the basin of this huge reservoir when it eventually becomes filled. This particular site, unlike many others in the area, shows little evidence of depredation.

This may be due in part to the fact that evidences of occupation are only faintly discernible on the surface. No conspicuous pits or mounds are visible, and the site is covered with a luxuriant growth of native grass which not only conceals the usual telltale surface accumulation of refuse but also obscures the minor surface irregularities.

Type
Archaeological Researches in the Missouri Basin by the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys and Cooperating Agencies
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1949 , pp. 310 - 321
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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1 The writer is deeply indebted to Dr. Albert C. Spaulding for the organization of the data on the ceramic industry. The description has been developed as a joint endeavor and has evolved from basic data submitted for review to the Museum of Anthropology, Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan.