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Recent Investigations in Fort Randall And Oahe Reservoirs, South Dakota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Paul L. Cooper
Paul L. Cooper*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Burnett Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
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One of the consequences of the Missouri Basin development program will be the virtual obliteration of the Missouri River between Yankton, South Dakota, and the Montana-North Dakota line. The lakes to be created by the various dams proposed or under construction by the Army Corps of Engineers will inundate all but short stretches of the terraces on which are situated literally hundreds of fortified and unfortified earth-lodge villages and other, earlier, occupational sites. Situated near the northern limit of agriculture but heavily populated by sedentary, horticultural people for a period of several hundreds of years, this anthropologically fascinating area has been barely touched scientifically.

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. 300 - 310
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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