North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Little Pumpkin Village; Site Number: 39HU97; County: Hughes; State: SD; Country: USA; Ownership: Private; Landform:Loess plain/river terrace;

Date of Site: AD 1300s; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Plains Village Pattern; Site Type: Fortified village; Site Size: 20 acres?;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 & 1.0 m; Area Surveyed: 100 sq m; Date of Survey: June 29, 1998; Land Cover Type: Open mowed grass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Electrical resistivity maps within Little Pumpkin Village showing a circular anomaly that appears at prospecting depths of 0.5 and 1.0 m;

 

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.

Survey by: Kenneth L. Kvamme, Department of Archaeology, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; currently at: Department of Anthropology, Main 330, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA; Phone: 501-575-4130; Fax: 501-575-6595; email: kkvamme@uark.edu; web: www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/kvamme.html.

Survey for: Hariman Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks;

Report Location: Hariman Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary