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.

Detail of the magnetic gradiometry survey at Menoken Village, ND, showing a portion of the fortification ditch. The ditch is currently nearly a meter deep in this area. The data show a magnetic void on each slope of the ditch while the ditch bottom is magnetically enhanced. The inner edge of the ditch, to the north where the palisade would have stood, contains very high magnetic measurements. Excavations suggest that when the ditch was excavated more magnetic A-horizon soils were removed from and mounded along the inner edge causing the raised measurements and the decrease on the ditch slopes. The higher values in the ditch bottom may be due to down-washed A-horizon materials.