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The Thomas Riggs Site (39HU1) Revisited, Hughes County, South Dakota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard B. Johnston*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln, Nebraska

Abstract

Exploratory excavation has confirmed the presence of a fortification system, first detected on aerial photographs, not reported heretofore.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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