Research Report No. 1
Mountain Meadow Sites in the Northern Black Hills
by: Linea Sundstrom, Renee Boen, Steve Keller, and Jane Watts (with an appendix by James E. Martin)
Published: 2002
Abstract: Mitigative data recovery efforts focused on three
high-altitude meadow
sites in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota. Site 39LA314 is an
undated, high-density lithic knapping station. The site was devoted
to the production of biface platforms and contained significant
amounts of imported lithic raw material from areas to the west of the
Black Hills. Site 39LA319 is a late Paleoindian (Plano) special activity
site used for prehunt weapon preparation and posthunt tools manufacture
and repair, secondary butchering, and hide working. Site 39LA117
contained two cultural horizons: an in situ hunt-related base camp
with mixed Middle and Late Archaic components, and a redeposited late
Paleoindian to Early Archaic cultural horizon representing a small,
special activity site used for initial butchering. These sites are
located on an older high terrace surface and within a lower, more
recent terrace surface. A pre-Altithermal dry period and a
mid-Altithermal wet period may be suggested by terrace formation
in the project area.
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