North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Big Hidatsa (Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site); Site Number: 32ME12; County: Mercer; State: ND; Country: USA; Ownership: NPS; Landform: Missouri River Terrace;

Date of Site: AD late1700s to early 1800s; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Plains Village (protohistoric Hidatsa); Site Type: Settlement; Site Size: ~46,800 sq m;

Survey Type: Magnetometry-Total Field;

Instrument: Proton magnetometer; Sampling Interval: 1 x1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 53,200 sq m; Date of Survey: 1977-1978, 1980; Land Cover Type: Grass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Composite gray-scale (colorized) map of Big Hidatsa Village, scale interval 2 nT;

 

Project Name: Big Hidatsa (Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site), 32ME12, ND;

Reference: Weymouth, J.W. (1986). Archaeological Site Surveying Program at the University of Nebraska. Geophysics 51(3):538-552. (used with permission).

Survey by: John W. Weymouth, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0111; Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service.

Survey for: National Park Service;

Report Location: NA; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary