The Archaeological Regions map for the State Plan is now available for download as an ArcView shapefile. Get it here. It is also available as a 1024x768 jpeg image, suitable for framing.The Archaeological Research Center has many resources available to researchers. This page serves as a general guide to what we have available online. Several documents are available in pdf format. Acrobat Reader, a pdf viewer, can be obtained free from Adobe.
Special Publications in Archaeology is an online series of general-interest reports about South Dakota Archaeology.
Research Reports is a series of technical reports highlighting aspects of archaeological research in South Dakota.
Various laws and administrative rules are pertinent to archaeology in South Dakota. Several of these are kept online for review. Archaeologists intending to conduct work on state-owned land in South Dakota need to obtain a permit. The application form is available for download in either pdf or MS Word 97 format.
The State Historic Preservation Office requires that copies of all archaeological reports done in South Dakota under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act be submitted to the Archaeological Research Center. This insures that the state has a complete set of base data for researchers and cultural resource managers. We have compiled a guideline, Submitting Report Copies to the Archaeological Research Center, as an aid in preparing reports for submission.
Many researchers and institutions make use of the Center's repository to store collections and records. The Center staff has prepared Requirements for Submitting a Collection to the State Archaeological Research Center. It contains useful information on artifact conservation, cataloging, storage, and recordation methods. It is also available for download.
Artifact collections at the Archaeological Research Center are cataloged using the HACS (Hierarchical Artifact Catalog System) utility. The catalog software is available in MS Access 2002 (XP) format. If the cataloging is being done for submission to the ARC repository, each set of data created by the utility should be named for the accession number (e.g. '99-0133.mdb', '03-0023.mdb'). Needless to say, only one accession should be used per file. The HACS program stores each catalog as a seperate database. It is able to open any older HACS catalog file or create new ones as needed.
Photos may be cataloged using the Photo utility, a database in MS Access 2000 format.
The Archaeological Research Center Field Site Form is the manual used to record or update archaeological site information. It is available for download as a pdf file. The site form is available in MS Access 2000 format; site data can be entered, printed, modified, and exported to MS Word from Access. If you don't have MS Access, you can download a pdf version of the siteform.
Guidelines for Cultural Resource Surveys and Survey Reports, a publication of the South Dakota State Historical Society's State Historic Preservation Office, is available here.
The Archaeological Regions map for the State Plan is now available for download as an ArcView shapefile. Get it here. It is also available as a 1024x768 jpeg image, suitable for framing.
