North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

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Project Name: Huff Village State Historic Site, ND (32MO11);

Reference: Ahler, S.A. and K.L. Kvamme (2000). New Geophysical and Archaeological Investigations at Huff Village State Historic Site (32MO11), Morton County, North Dakota. PaleoCultural Research Group, Flagstaff, Arizona. Report submitted to the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck.

Resistivity tomography images in the vicinity of a house depression at Huff Village. The data
were obtained from a matrix of 40 x 40 measurement stations (0.5 m samples) with 6 depths
at each station (0.25-1.5 m, every 0.25 m). The data suggest a resistivity reversal with low
resistivity above the compacted house floor and high resistivity below it. The house floor
probably acts as a moisture barrier causing the apparent resistivity flip.