Archaeology – Research Updates

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Archaeology

A pile of slightly dirty tools spread out on a light-colored vinyl floor. It includes trowels, measuring tapes, folding rulers, spoons, root clippers, brushes, screwdrivers, spoons, and a bunch of gloves

Tools of the Trade

Color painting of snowed-in fort buildings under a dramatic sky. People in military uniforms with a dog in the foreground.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32ML1 – Fort Stevenson

Color photo of ceramic sherds in a cardboard tray in a storage drawer. They are mostly plate bottoms that include maker's marks and they are positioned so that the marks are facing up.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32ML2 – Like-A-Fishhook Village and Fort Berthold

Black ink on yellowish page. High view of Fort Floyd with hills in the background. A square stockade has a gate in one side and a row of wooden buildings along the opposite wall. A cannon is drawn in the center of the open space.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32MN1 – Fort Floyd

Very high aerial view, in black and white, of an archaeological excavation in a landscape. A long line of square excavation units looks like a checkerboard in the landscape. Other areas look like large squares, circles, and trenches.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: Village Sites

Looking down at my feet, in steel-toed boots, in a very muddy excavation unit. It has standing water in it. Sixteenth-century building facades and partially blue sky are reflected in the water.

End of Year Update, Part II: Cataloging and Field Work

Chipped stone flakes of various sizes and materials (and thus colors, though most are in the brown range) sitting on a white table cover. The cap of a pen is included for scale. Some have flat surfaces of maybe 3 or 4 cm by 3 or 4 cm, others are much smaller.

Cataloging the Medicine Crow Site (39BF2)

Old (1878) black-and-white photo of a large pile of bison hides with a man sitting on it in the foreground. Other people and horse cars are visible in the background. All are dwarfed by the massive pile of hides.

Happy National Bison Day!

Two ceramic pots from an archaeological collection stored in a shoe box with a label from the 1940s.

How Everyday Objects Can Tell Us about the Past: Twentieth Century Examples From Our Collections Work

Scene from The Revenant (2015). Domnhall Gleeson as Andrew Henry, sitting at a table inside the movie's version of Fort Kiowa.

Real Stories behind The Revenant, part III: Fort Kiowa

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