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Multi-periodSite Name: Double Ditch State Historic Site Alternative Name: Fortified Mandan Village SiteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 17.351 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bismarck, N. Dakota
Latitude: 46.936170N Longitude: 100.90089W
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Mandan village site in Burleigh County, North Dakota. An Arkansas University archaeological project in the Double Ditch State Historic Site on the Missouri River near Bismarck, North Dakota has revealed a rampart and ditch defensive system around a Mandan village site.
Ken Kvamme, an associate professor of anthropology with the university has found the defensive system to have comprised of a rampart consisting of midden material, a palisade surrounding this, and two rings of double ditches around the palisade which is on the inside edge of the innermost ditch. The outermost ditch surrounded an area of approximately 7.5 hectares (18.75 acres); which according to Kvamme, posed an extreme engineering feat and exemplified a considerable state of fear for the village. Also bastions were found along the outer ditch and rectangular as well as circular lodges were found inside the ramparts.
The site was found to have been occupied from the early 1400s (based on the style of pottery sherds) into the 1700s and by the number of lodges, to have supported a population of approximately 3,000 people. There will be further dating by other techniques in the future. By standards of the region, so far, the site is found to be unusual due to the continuous occupation, tremendous size of site, and defensive works. Kvamme believes this site to be of World Heritage Site quality.
More at University of Arkansas news.
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Note: Work on North Dakota oil pipeline frozen following claims of damage to burial grounds sacred to The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (not Double Ditch State Historic Site but within a few miles). Also news on repairs to flood damage to the state historic site, see the comments on our page
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