According to the South Dakota State Historical Society's Archaeological Research Center, over 26,000 archaeological sites have been recorded in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [1]
This list is broken down by county and encompasses sites across all of what is now South Dakota. Only notable sites are listed. Each table consists of the site's common name; the nearest locality; if given, its Smithsonian trinomial (SITS) and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) reference number; associated period or culture; and any further notes, including where a property is listed on the NRHP as a National Historic Landmark, or part of a Multiple Property Submission (MPS), Multiple Resource Area (MRA), or Thematic Resource (TR).
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39BE2 | #93001063 | Wessington Springs | Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39BE3 | #93000802 | Wolsey | Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39BE14 | #84003199 | Huron | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE15 | #84003201 | Huron | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE23 | #84003206 | Huron | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE46 | #84003208 | Huron | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE48 | #84003210 | Huron | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE57 | #84003212 | Yale | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39BE64 | #84003215 | Yale | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Crow Creek Site | 39BF11 | #66000710 | Chamberlain | Middle Missouri | National Historic Landmark relating to Crow Creek massacre |
Farm School site | 39BF220 | Fort Thompson | Site partially lost under the Missouri River [2] | ||
Fire Cloud site | 39BF237 | Fort Thompson | Cache pit containing ceramics, likely early 18th century [3] | ||
Fort Thompson Archeological District | #86002738 | Fort Thompson | Big Bend Area MRA | ||
Fort Thompson Mounds | Fort Thompson | Plains Woodland | National Historic Landmark District | ||
Old Quarry Mound | 39BF234 | Burial mound complex [4] | |||
Side Hill site | 39BF233 | Burial mound complex [4] | |||
Sitting Crow site | 39BF225 | Burial mound complex [4] | |||
Talking Crow Archeological Site | 39BF3 | #03000505 | Fort Thompson | ||
Two Teeth site | 39BF204 | [3] |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Vanderbilt Archeological Site | #97000342 | Pollock | National Historic Landmark |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Cultures | Notes |
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39CO39 | #93000765 | Mahto | Cairn and rock art site; [5] : 379, 425, 427, 643 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39CU70 | #93001039 | Custer | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
Scored Rocks | 39CU91 | #82004759 | Protohistoric (Lakota) | Rock art site, depicts guns; [5] : 379, 586 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |
39CU510 | #82004752 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU511 | #82004754 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU512 | #82004753 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU513 | #82004755 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU514 | #82004756 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU515 | #82004757 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU516 | #82004758 | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR | |||
39CU890 | #93000803 | Hermosa | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39CU1619 | #99000679 | Custer | Cairn and stone circle site [5] : 403, 424, 427, 601 | ||
39CU2565 | #16000047 | Dewey | Rock art site [5] : 379 | ||
39CU3178 | #16000048 | Dewey | Rock art site [5] : 379 | ||
39CU3393 | #16000049 | Dewey | Rock art site [5] : 379 | ||
39CU4164 | #16000050 | Dewey | Rock art site [5] : 379 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Mitchell Site | 39DV2 | #66000712 | Mitchell | Mississippian culture | Open to the public |
39DV9 | #84003275 | Riverside | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR | ||
39DV24 | #84003260 | Mitchell | James River Basin Woodland Sites TR |
Numerous archeological sites in Fall River County were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in batches in 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2016. These were deemed significant for their information potential. In most cases, the specific locations of these sites are not disclosed, but their general regions are.
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39FA86 | #93000804 | Edgemont | Plains Village | Rock art site including inscription(s) by member(s) of the 1874 Black Hills Expedition; [5] : 380, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA88 | #93001040 | Edgemont | Ponca | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 392, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA89 | #93000806 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA90 | #93001041 | Edgemont | Rock art site, rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 602, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA99 | #93001042 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA243 | #93001043 | Edgemont | Rock art site, rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 391–2, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA244 | #93001044 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379, 603 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA316 | #93001045 | Edgemont | Rock art site, including painted rock art; [5] : 375 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA321 | #93001046 | Edgemont | Ponca | Rock art site; [5] : 343 / II-278 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA395 | #93001047 | Edgemont | Middle Archaic (McKean complex) | "Pecked Realistic" rock art; a rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 143, 371, 391–392 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA446 | #93001048 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA447 | #93001049 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA448 | #93001050 | Edgemont | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA542 | #93001051 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA678 | #93000801 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA679 | #93001052 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA680 | #93001053 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA682 | #93001054 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA683 | #93001055 | Edgemont | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA686 | #93001056 | Edgemont | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA688 | #93001057 | Edgemont | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 379, 385, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA690 | #93001058 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379, 382 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA691 | #93001059 | Edgemont | Late Prehistoric | Rock art site; [5] : 199, 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA767 | #93001060 | Edgemont | Rock art site; rock shelter and cave site; [5] : 199, 379, 391 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA788 | #93001061 | Edgemont | Rock art site; [5] : 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA806 | #93000790 | Hot Springs | Rock art site; [5] : 379, 404, 535 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA819 | #93001062 | Edgemont | Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | ||
39FA1010 | #93001063 | Hot Springs | Late Archaic | Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS | |
39FA1013 | #93001064 | ||||
39FA1046 | #93001065 | ||||
39FA1049 | #93000791 | ||||
39FA1093 | #93001066 | ||||
39FA1152 | #93001067 | ||||
39FA1154 | #93001068 | ||||
39FA1155 | #93001069 | ||||
39FA1190 | #93001070 | ||||
39FA1201 | #93000792 | ||||
39FA1204 | #93001071 | ||||
39FA1336 | #05000690 | ||||
39FA1337 | #05000689 | ||||
39FA1638 | #05000691 | ||||
39FA2530 | #16000051 | ||||
39FA2531 | #16000052 | ||||
39FA7 | #82004771 | ||||
39FA58 | #82004765 | ||||
39FA75 | #82004760 | ||||
39FA79 | #82004772 | ||||
39FA91 | #82004773 | ||||
39FA94 | #82004774 | ||||
39FA277 | #82004761 | ||||
39FA389 | #82004762 | ||||
39FA554 | #82004764 | ||||
39FA676 | #82004766 | ||||
39FA677 | #82004767 | ||||
39FA681 | #82004769 | ||||
39FA684 | #82004768 | Pecked rock art [6] : 19, 33 | |||
39FA685 | #82004906 | ||||
39FA687 | #82004770 | ||||
39FA1303 | #05000587 | ||||
39FA1639 | #05000586 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39HD22 | #84003296 | Danforth |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Bloom Site | 39HS1 | #66000714 | Bloom | National Historic Landmark | |
39HS3 | #84003294 | Mitchell | |||
Fort James | 39HS48 | #84003290 | Rosedale Colony | Historic (1865–1867) | U.S. Government fort |
Sheldon Reese Site | 39HS23 | #84003292 | Mitchell |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Ludlow Cave | 39HN1 | #94000108 | A multiple-component ceremonial rock art site in North Cave Hills including projectile points, a rock shelter/cave, turtle effigies, and petroforms (now destroyed). [5] : 107, 202, 382–383, 388–389, 391, 433, 436, 487, 494 | ||
39HN5 | #94000109 | ||||
39HN17 | #93000805 | ||||
39HN18 | #94000088 | ||||
39HN21 | #94000124 | ||||
39HN22 | #94000123 | ||||
39HN26 | #94000122 | ||||
39HN30 | #94000121 | ||||
39HN50 | #94000119 | ||||
39HN53 | #94000118 | ||||
39HN54 | #94000120 | ||||
39HN121 | #94000117 | ||||
39HN150 | #94000114 | ||||
39HN155 | #94000115 | ||||
39HN159 | #94000116 | ||||
39HN160 | #94000113 | ||||
39HN162 | #94000091 | ||||
39HN165 | #94000093 | ||||
39HN167 | #94000092 | ||||
39HN168 | #94000129 | ||||
39HN171 | #94000128 | ||||
39HN174 | #94000127 | ||||
39HN177 | #94000126 | ||||
39HN198 | #94000125 | ||||
39HN199 | #94000110 | ||||
Lightning Spring | 39HN204 | #82003930 | Ludlow |
| In Sandstone Buttes area [7] [5] : 144, 152, 216, 414, 488 |
39HN205 | #94000095 | ||||
39HN207 | #94000094 | ||||
39HN208 | #93000794 | ||||
39HN209 | #94000107 | ||||
39HN210 | #94000106 | ||||
39HN213 | #94000105 | ||||
39HN217 | #94000104 | ||||
39HN218 | #94000103 | ||||
39HN219 | #94000102 | ||||
39HN227 | #94000111 | ||||
39HN228 | #94000112 | ||||
39HN232 | #94000101 | ||||
39HN234 | #94000100 | ||||
39HN484 | #94000098 | ||||
39HN485 | #94000099 | ||||
39HN486 | #94000097 | ||||
39HN487 | #94000096 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Arzberger site | #66000715 | National Historic Landmark, on bluff above McClure site | |||
Cedar Islands Archeological District | #86002739 | ||||
Fort George Creek Archeological District | #86002741 | Part of Big Bend Area MRA | |||
McClure site | 39HU7 | #86002732 | Part of Big Bend Area MRA | ||
Medicine Creek Archeological District | #86002740 | Has 21 contributing sites including a village site. Partially in Lyman County | |||
Old Fort Sully | 39HU52 | #86002731 | Historic (1863–1866) | U.S. Government fort | |
39HU66 | #84003297 | Part of the Petroforms of South Dakota Thematic Resource (TR) | |||
39HU189 | #84003307 | Part of the Petroforms of South Dakota TR | |||
39HU201 | #84003308 | Part of the Petroforms of South Dakota TR |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39HT14 | #84003320 | Olivet | Plains Woodland | Mound site [5] : 162, 455, 710, 712 | |
39HT27 | #84003323 | Plains Woodland | Mound site [5] : 162, 455, 710, 713 | ||
39HT29 | #84003325 | Clayton | Plains Woodland | Mound site [5] : 162, 455, 710, 713 | |
39HT30 39HT202 | #84003327 | Clayton | Plains Woodland (Randall phase) | Mound site [5] : 162, 189, 455, 710, 713 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39HE331 | #93000793 | Holabird |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Lip's Camp | 39JK84 | #75002104 | Wanblee | Historic (Upper Brule Lakota) | In White River Badlands. Lakota site of the "Early Reservation Period", it was occupied 1880–1904 by the Wazhazha band of the Upper Brule. [5] : 613, 617, 619 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39JE10 | #84003336 | Wessington Springs | |||
39JE11 | #84003337 | Gann Valley |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Blood Run Site | #70000246 | On the Iowa/South Dakota border along the Big Sioux River, a National Historic Landmark |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Burnt Prairie Site | 39LM207 | #86002735 | Lower Brule | ||
Crazy Bull site | 39LM220 | Lower Brule | [8] | ||
Deerfly site | 39LM39 | Oacoma | Dakota | Late 19th century occupation [9] | |
Dinehart Village Archeological Site | #03000501 | Oacoma | |||
Fort Lookout IV | #90001940 | Oacoma | |||
Jiggs Thompson Site | 39LM208 | #86002734 | Lower Brule | ||
King Archaeological Site | #03000502 | Oacoma | |||
Langdeau Site | 39LM209 | #66000717 | Lower Brule | National Historic Landmark | |
Meander site | 39LM201 | Oacoma | [10] | ||
Medicine Creek Archeological District | #86002740 | Has 21 contributing sites including a village site. Partially in Hughes County |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39MK12 | #93000796 | Bridgewater |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39MP3 | #93000795 | Long Lake | Rock art panel likely depicting bison heads [6] |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39MD1 39MD20 | #93000798 | Rock art site; has stone circle. The site is in the eastern foothills of the Black Hills "lying in a deep arroyo"; the "rimrock above the arroyo contained a stone circle and a scatter of chipped stone artifacts"; the stone circle was "test excavated" and found, however, to have very little "chipping debris". [5] : 379, 397, 538 | |||
39MD81 | #93000818 | ||||
39MD82 | #93000797 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Brandon Village | #01000664 | Brandon |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39PN57 | #82004778 | Rock art site [5] : 379–380 | |||
39PN108 | #82004775 | Rock art site [5] : 58, 379–380 | |||
Ice Cave | 39PN376 | #93001072 | Paleoindian, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Late Prehistoric, Historic | Rock shelter cave site with red-painted hand prints [5] : 391–392, 467 | |
39PN438 | #82004776 | Rock art site [5] | |||
39PN439 | #82004777 | Rock art site [5] |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39PO63 | #93000800 | Gettysburg | |||
39PO205 | #93000799 | Gettysburg |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Thunderbird Rock | 39RO71 | #05000588 | Sisseton |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39SB15 | #84003384 | Mitchell | |||
39SB18 | #84003397 | Forestburg | |||
39SB31 | #84003399 | Forestburg |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39SP2 | #84003408 | Frankfort | |||
39SP4 | #05000590 | Tulare | |||
39SP12 | #84003403 | Ashton | |||
39SP19 | #84003405 | Spink Colony | |||
39SP37 | #84003411 | Crandon | |||
39SP46 | #84003413 | Crandon |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Antelope Creek Site | 39ST55 | #86002737 | Fort Pierre | Big Bend Area MRA | |
Bloody Hand Site | 39ST230 | #86002736 | Fort Pierre | Big Bend Area MRA | |
Fort Pierre Chouteau | #76001756 | Fort Pierre | Historic | National Historic Landmark | |
Fort Pierre II | 39ST217 | #88000732 | Fort Pierre |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cooper Village Archeological Site | #03000504 | Onida |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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39TU5 | #84003417 | Freeman | At Turkey Ridge. Petroform site, includes a thunderbird effigy "said to mark the campsite of a leader named Swan, according to Northern Cheyenne oral tradition" in 1750–1825 era. [5] : 429, 749–750 |
Name | SITS | NRHP | Nearest locality | Associations | Notes |
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Gravel Pit Site | 39WW203 | #86000834 | Mobridge |
There are 459 properties and historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in North Dakota. There are listings in 52 of North Dakota's 53 counties.
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places. There are NRHP listings in all of Missouri's 114 counties and the one independent city of St. Louis.
The Menoken Indian Village Site, also known as Menoken Site, Verendrye Site or Apple Creek Site is an archeological site near Bismarck, North Dakota. The site, that of a fortified village occupied c. 1300, is important in the region's prehistory, as it is one of the only sites that predates sites that are more clearly associated with the historic Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara cultures. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. It is located on 171st Street NE, north of Menoken, about 10 miles (16 km) east of Bismarck. The site managed by the state as the Menoken Indian Village State Historic Site, and is open to the public.
The Arzberger site, designated by archaeologists with the Smithsonian trinomial 39HU6, is a major archaeological site in Hughes County, near Pierre, South Dakota. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. It is a large fortified village, that is the type site for the Initial Coalescent, a culture that flourished in the area c. 1200-1350 CE.
The Bloom Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 39HS1, is an archaeological site in Hanson County, South Dakota. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
The Mitchell Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 39DV2, is an important archaeological site in Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. At that time it was the only reliably dated site of the Lower James River Phase. The site, sheltered under a dome, is managed by a nonprofit organization and is open to the public as Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village. Visitors can watch archaeologists uncover artifacts in the Thomsen Center Archeodome. The Boehnen Memorial Museum features a reconstructed lodge and many of the artifacts found at the site.
Molstad Village, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 39DW234, is an archaeological site in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States, near the city of Mobridge. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The site contains the remains of a small fortified Native America village, consisting of earth lodges surrounded by a bastioned palisade, with further lodges scattered in the area outside the fortification. Evidence gathered at the site indicates it was occupied for a relatively brief period in the mid-1500s CE, and was assigned to the Chouteau aspect of Middle Missouri taxonomy, later known as the Extended Coalescent phase. Four lodge sites were excavated in the early 1960s, uncovering post holes and cache pits, one of which contained skull-less human remains. Finds at the site included pottery fragments and stone tools. Bone tools were also found, including plows made from bison shoulder blades.
The Fort Thompson Mounds are a complex of ancient archaeological sites in Buffalo County, South Dakota, near Fort Thompson and within the Crow Creek Reservation. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 by the US Department of Interior, the mound complex extends for a distance of about 6 miles (9.7 km) along the east bank of the Missouri River. It is one of the largest known complex of burial mounds in the Plains region north of Kansas.
American Indian Rock Art in Minnesota MPS is a Multiple Property Submission (MPS) of the eligibility of many rock art properties for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing is to protect and preserve Native American petroglyphs, pictographs and petroform rock art sites in the present day U.S. state of Minnesota.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Custer County, South Dakota.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hughes County, South Dakota.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota.
39HE331 is an archaeological rock art site in Hyde County, South Dakota. The art is located on a flat boulder in a field overlooking an intermittent stream near the community of Holabird. The art consists of pecked geometric shapes, including a series of "turkey track" designs, two circles with rays extending from one half, a horseshoe shape, and a plain circle. One of the turkey tracks has an X through it and is surrounded by a circle. The meaning of these symbols is not known, as they do not resemble other rock art in the region. Glacial striations in the boulder surface may also be confused for pecking.
39MP3 is an archaeological site in McPherson County, South Dakota. It consists of a panel of rock art, on which designs have been pecked. The designs on this panel appear to resemble heads of bison, a theme echoed in other rock art panels in the area.
Fort James was a cavalry fort built in 1866 in Dakota Territory. It was soon decommissioned and its site now is in the state of South Dakota. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The Buffalo Gap Historic Commercial District, is a historic district in Buffalo Gap, South Dakota, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Ludlow Cave is an archaeological site in the North Cave Hills of rural Harding County, South Dakota, United States. It is regarded as a sacred site by several Native American tribes, who have long created rock art inside. The cave was visited by George Armstrong Custer as part of his 1874 Black Hills Expedition and was named for one of his officers, William Ludlow. Much of the original art has been destroyed by modern graffiti.
Talking Crow is an archaeological site near Fort Thompson in Buffalo County, South Dakota, United States. It is an earth lodge village used by both the Arikara and Dakota, in multiple occupation phases between about AD 600 and 1950. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 2003.
The McClure site, formerly called the McClure Ranch, McClure Village, or Arzberger Bottoms Village is an archaeological site in rural Harding County, South Dakota, United States, containing an earth lodge village inhabited by the early Arikara during the late 17th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.