North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
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Project Name: Whistling Elk Village, SD (39HU242);
References: Toom, D. L. and K. L. Kvamme (2001). The "Big House" at Whistling Elk Village (39HU242): Geophysical Findings and Archaeological Truths. Plains Anthropologist, in press.
Kvamme, K.L. (2000). Current Practices in Archaeogeophysics: Magnetics, Resistivity, Conductivity, and Ground-Penetrating Radar. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology, P. Goldberg, V. Holliday, and R. Ferring, eds., Plenum Press, New York, pp. 353-384.
Kvamme, K.L. (1999). Geophysical Explorations at the Whistling Elk Site (39HU242), Hughes County, South Dakota, 1998 Field Season. Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District Office.
Kvamme, K.L. (1999). The Whistling Elk Subsurface Imaging Project. http://www.cast.uark.edu/~kkvamme/Whistle/Whistle.htm
Kvamme, K.L. (1998). Geophysical Exploration at the Whistling Elk Site (39HU242), Hughes County, South Dakota. Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District Office.
The
results of the electrical resistivity survey at Whistling Elk, SD, covered an
area of
approximately 17,000 sq m, and required nearly 34,000 measurements. Cultural
features, nearly a meter deep, tend to exhibit high resistivity due to differing
electrical properties of the eolian sediments that in-filled house and fortification
depressions after the site's abandonment. The sharp line near the southern part
of the
village is the Army Corps of Engineers protective berm created as part of a
bank
stabilization program to protect this site from further erosion from Lake Sharpe
to the south.