South Dakota Archaeological Sites
River Basin Surveys Archaeology in South Dakota, Talking Crow Site
River Basin Surveys Archaeology in South Dakota, Talking Crow Site
Excavations around the oldest building on the University of South Dakota campus.
The largest known prehistoric massacre in North America, circa AD 1325. Reburial of the remains was completed in 1981. The pages are under construction but there is a great deal to see, set up as a junior high lesson example.
The Bliss Hill/Bliss Bone Bed Sites
A late Paleo/Early Archaic complex on the west edge of Vermillion. This one is just started, so not much to see yet.
The Lange/Ferguson
Site
A mammoth kill/butchering locality in Shannon County,SD,
in the Badlands
The Ray Long site
The Plano tradition Angostura type site, re-excavated. A
Clovis base came from the site recently.
The
Pierre Indian Learning Center Site
Over 100 burials were recorded
during the 1989-90 excavations at 39HU10, near the site of an Arikara
village (39HU10).
The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village
The Blood Run Site
The Blood Run site is a prehistoric and
protohistoric Oneota cultural settlement adjacent to the Big Sioux River
in Lincoln County, South Dakota and Lyon County, Iowa
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