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| Location | 1110 University Street, Vermillion, South Dakota |
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| Coordinates | 42°47′30″N96°55′30″W / 42.7918°N 96.9250°W |
The W. H. Over Museum, in Vermillion, South Dakota is the oldest museum in the state of South Dakota. [1] The museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying South Dakota cultural and historical objects. [2] One of the objectives is to develop educational programs. Another objective is to maintain an inventory of research works and files. [3]
The museum was founded in 1883, established by the University of South Dakota. [1] It is named for W. H. Over, who is credited or blamed for excavating the Ludlow Cave, an archeological site of great importance, probably the most significant in the state, which had a wealth of projectile points and much more. It was excavated with poor methods, including possible accidental mixture of projectile points from other sites/cultures/eras into its collection. Between 1926 and 1948, the director of the museum was W. H. Over. [1]
The museum contains exhibits of archaeological artifacts; exhibits of geological objects, such as minerals and rocks; and exhibits on the different ethnic groups that inhabit South Dakota. [4] The museum contains artifacts from the Lakota people. [5] The museum also contains photographs of the Dakota Territory. [6]
Sanxingdui is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, following a preliminary finding in 1927, archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the twelfth–eleventh centuries BC. The archaeological site is the type site for the Sanxingdui culture that produced these artifacts, archeologists have identified the locale with the ancient kingdom of Shu. The artifacts are displayed in the Sanxingdui Museum located near the city of Guanghan.
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