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Multi-periodSite Name: Mitchell Site Alternative Name: Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, Mitchell Village, 39-DV-1
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 219.917 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mitchell, SD
Latitude: 43.742000N  Longitude: 98.034W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Stages of Flaking Stone Tools-2 Other side of the display case. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Davidson County, South Dakota.
The working archaeological site for a pallisaded village of over seventy earthen lodges dating to ca. 900AD. The people of the village (Lower James River Phase culture) farmed and hunted bison and other game.

Discovered in 1910, the non-profit Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village Preservation Society maintains the site for the public and conducts archaeological field schools in association with university researchers. In addition to the dig site, the grounds include a museum and a recreation of an earthen lodge.

A National Historic Landmark, the site was also placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966:

NRHP #66000712
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Lower James, Middle Missouri
Period of Significance: 1499-1000 AD, 1000-500 AD
Owner: Local , Private
Historic Function: Domestic, Funerary
Historic Sub-function: Camp, Graves/Burials
Current Function: Landscape, Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function: Outdoor Recreation, Park


Note: 1,000 year-old seeds and pottery in 2015 dig season. See Comment.
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Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : The Dig Roasting oven and some crushed bones. They say all this stuff in the dig is outside of the lodges so they can see what went on outside in daily life. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Bison Bones One of the cool benefits of traveling by car across the country is the opportunities that arise to visit some unique and interesting sights. While heading across South Dakota we saw some signs for a prehistoric Indian village and excavation. This was near Mitchell, SD. We picked up lunch and then headed to the location just north of the small town and along the lake. It was a cool... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : The Ramp Looking back across the dome you can see the ramp curving around and upwards with the dig in the center. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Stages of Flaking Stone Tools-1 Nice display showing the different stages in making stone tools and the flakes produced. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Buffalo Bones If they had trouble with that dog, I bet this is a nightmare. Let's see'em put this all together! Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Dog Skeleton Nice arrangement, but they didn't seem to get the bones arranged properly. They should have looked at the chart and put them together right. Or maybe, this is how the skeleton would look if the dog was sleeping in a box? It just doesn't look right to me...could be some sort of archaeologist joke? Anyway lets not obsess on it and move on. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted o...

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Hammer Stones Big stones for a variety of uses. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Scapulas! Shoulder blades from different animals and used in a variety of ways. Of course, I was too stupid to turn the cards over that identified what animal each blade comes from. So, you'll just have to go there and do it yourself. It's worth the $6 entrance fee. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Pottery Display Self explainatory. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Stones and Bones Bone tools and polished stone. Also, sandstone used to shape and polish; ancient sandpaper, sans the paper. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Stone Tools Blanks, blades, drills...lots of things you can make with stone. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : At the Top This is the last shot of the dig from the top of the ramp. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Looking Down A ramp goes around the inside walls of the dome so you can look down (not judgementally) at the excavation. The ramp begins inside the front door and circles upwards to the second floor. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Archeodome Built over the oldest and richest part of the site. They say they have about 50 more years of excavation left to do inside the dome. Let's go in and look! Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Bull Boat Buffalo hide "Bull Boat" used to travel on water. It has a paddle made from a shoulder blade. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Reconstructed Lodge A bed with a buffalo robe, and a pot that was put back together from the dig. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Reconstructed Lodge Beds and fire pit. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Reconstructed Lodge Earth lodge reconstructed in the museum. A bed in the corner with a deer hide and what looks like a skinned small black dog, but don't hold me to that dumb theory. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Arrows & Arrow Heads Display about arrow making and uses. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Bone Tools A display of bone tools in the Visitors Center. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Maize-Corn on the Cob! The history of Maize is covered in the museum, from it's origin in centeral Mexico to all areas of the ancient indian world. It is not new to South Dakota Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : More Evidence! Boiling stones and pots for making the greasy fat from the marrow of bison bones to help preserve the pemmican. Note that the sign points out that adding animal fat to the meat and berries not only preserves it, but also gives it a nutrient value of 3 to 1 over fresh meat. Don't tell the heath nuts, or the government, about this fact. It could undermine their powerbase. Image copyr...

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Some Ancient Tools Stone hide scraper with a hide. Knives made from shoulder blades for cutting sqush or pumpkins. Some bone implements. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Mitchell Site
Mitchell Site submitted by Flickr : Pottery Examples of "Pot Sherds," pieces of pottery, with some typical decorations and motifs. Image copyright: yakkhapadma (James), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Indian Village researchers find pot completely intact by bat400 on Thursday, 13 August 2015
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A successful season at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village reached a new high over the weekend.

For the first time since 1928—when regular research started at the Mitchell site—archeology experts have found a ceramic vessel, or a small pot, that remains intact. Previously, every other piece of pottery found at the site has been crushed or broken at the time of discovery.

The discovery was made Saturday at the Thomsen Archeodome during the village's annual Archeology Awareness Days held at the site along Lake Mitchell.

Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village Executive Director Cindy Gregg said the findings created a clear sense of excitement.

"This is a really big finding," she said. "Especially when we consider that everything else has been broken."

The pot is tiny, measuring only a few inches wide and it will require further testing. The village will send it to Bristol, England, for residue testing, which might give a clue as to what the pot was used for. That process could take several months. She said the small size of the item could have been one of the reasons it has stayed as one piece after an estimated 1,000 years.

For more, see the Mitchell Daily Rebublic.
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1,000 year-old seeds dug up at Prehistoric Indian Village archeodome by bat400 on Wednesday, 12 August 2015
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Each year, something new is uncovered at the Thomsen Center Archeodome at the Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village.

But this year, the big find has been something small.

Researchers working the archaeological site along Lake Mitchell have discovered troves of small, charred kernels of corn and sunflowers, each only a few millimeters wide, that remain intact more than 1,000 years after people lived in the area along Firesteel Creek. Researchers have also found corn cobs, which they say show how much agriculture has changed, and affirms that people of the region had a diverse diet.

For more, see the Mitchell Republic.
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