Cultural Resources Inventory Along Portions Of The Belle Fourche Irrigation Project Butte And Meade Counties South Dakota PDF Download

In 1986 Larson-Tibesar Associates conducted an intensive cultural resource inventory of approximately 10,500 acres along portions of the west bank of Lake Oahe in Corson and Dewey counties, South Dakota for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District. The inventory resulted in the investigation of 44 archeological sites which included the recording of 16 new prehistoric sites, 15 new historic sites, two new sites with both historic and prehistoric remains and 27 isolated finds and the reinvestigation of 11 previously recorded sites. Historic components were added to four previously recorded sites (39C019, 39DW240, 39DW242, and 39DW256). The new sites consist of historic and prehistoric artifact scatters, historic depressions, foundations and cemeteries and a few rock cairns. Prehistoric diagnostic artifacts indicate an occupation of the project area from Paleoindian to the Extended variant of the Coalescent Tradition. The evidence for preceramic occupations within the project area comes from a few isolated finds and a burial recovered in 1979 from 39DW35. One site, Molstad Village, is a National Historic Landmark, five sites are considered eligible, 22 components at 20 sites and all 27 isolated finds are not considered eligible.