North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

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Project Name: Menoken Village State Historic Site, ND (32BL2);

Reference: Kvamme, K.L. (2001). Final Report of Geophysical Investigations Conducted at the Menoken Village State Historic Site (32BL2), 1997-1999. ArcheoImaging Lab, Department of Anthropology and Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Submitted to PaleoCultural Research Group, Flagstaff, Arizona and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, North Dakota.

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). Remote Sensing at Menoken Village. In Interim Report and Work Plan for Continuing Archaeological Studies at Menoken Village State Historic Site, 32BL2, Burleigh County, North Dakota. S.A. Ahler, ed., submitted to the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck.

Kvamme, K.L. (1999). Preliminary Findings of Geophysical and Related Explorations at Menoken Village State Historic Site (32BL2), Burleigh County, North Dakota, 1998 Field Season. Submitted to the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck.

Kvamme, K.L. (1998). Geophysical Exploration at the Menoken Indian Village State Historic Site (32BL2), Burleigh County, North Dakota, 1997 Field Season. Submitted to the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

Magnetic gradiometry survey results at Menoken Village, ND. The fortification ditch with 4 bastion loops are clearly visible in the data as are multiple burned houses, numerous magnetic dipoles resulting from historic and recent iron artifacts, several trails, and a circular, unfilled archaeological excavation hole from the 1930s in the middle left. A steel power pole anchor creates the massive anomaly at the lower left. Although many of the features are visible on the surface the magnetic survey discovered several new houses and other features. A steep bluff descending to Apple Creek lies to the north and west. The clipping range of this portrayal is +/- 1.3 nT.