North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
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Project Name: Little Pumpkin Village, SD (39HU97);
Reference: Kenneth L. Kvamme (1998). Geophysical Explorations at the Little Pumpkin Village Site, 39HU97, Hughes County, South Dakota. Submitted to the Hariman Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Electrical resistivity maps of a 10 x 10 m block within much-disturbed Little Pumpkin Village, in SD, showing a circular anomaly of high resistivity that appears at prospecting depths of 0.5 and 1.0 m. Testing of the anomaly revealed a circular prehistoric pit 1.5 m in diameter that extended to a depth of at least 1.5 m. The low resistivity disturbances to the north result from an adjacent railroad grade.