The Alkire Mound (32SI200)

The Alkire Mound Site, located on the west bank of the Missouri River in southernmost North Dakota, appears to be one more manifestation of the Woodland occupation of the northern Plains. The low earthen mound, some 90 feet in diameter at the time of excavation, was built over a log-covered burial chamber which contained five bundle burials and one extended innumation. The artifact yield was negligible, but the one projectile point found is of the sort usually associated with Woodland manifestations in the area. Estimates of the labor required to build the mound indicate that the people responsible for its construction had an economy which permitted spending an appreciable amount of time in nonsubsistence activities

Archaeology · Artifact (error) · Excavation · Geography · Karst · Projectile point · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

• Report of the Investigation of the Scalp Creek Site 39GR1 and the Ellis Creek Site 39GR2, Gregory County, South Dakota. Wesley R. HurtJr. South Dakota Archaeological Commission, Circular No. 4, Pierre, 1952

  Open Access•Donald J Lehmer•American Antiquity•1954

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