Prehistory on First Street NE
The Archaeology of Scattered Village in Mandan, North Dakota
In June 1998, the remains of Scattered Village, site 32MO31, were unexpectedly encountered in a federally supported street renovation project on First Street NE in the City of Mandan, North Dakota. This discovery led to an emergency salvage (data recovery) program involving fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and technical reporting funded jointly by the City of Mandan and federal dollars through the North Dakota Department of Transportation. The project was executed as a collaborative effort between Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc. (MAC) and PaleoCultural Research Group (PCRG) in which MAC took the lead role in execution of fieldwork and PCRG the lead role in execution of lab work and technical reporting of both field and lab phases of the project.
Scattered Village Report
Chapters
- Site Description and Previous Investigations
- Field Investigations
- Research Design
- Collection Processing, Sampling, and Data Bases
- Site Chronology and Analytic Units
- Faunal Analysis of Unmodified Larger Mammal Remains
- Fish, Amphibian, Reptile, and Bird Remains
- Inventory and Analysis of Rodent, Insectivore, and Bat Cranial Elements
- Plants Used By The Occupants of Scattered Village
- Unmodified Mussel Shell Remains
- Pottery Analysis
- Stone Tools and Flaking Debris
- Modified Bone and Antler Remains
- Fossil and Modified Shell Remains
- Trade Artifact Analysis
- Fire-cracked Rock and Other Material Classes
- Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains
- Summary and Conclusions
- References Cited
Appendix
- Appendix A: Scope of Work and Associated Documents
- Appendix B: Skeletal Part Distributions for Each Taxon (NISPs/MNIs) for Each Time Period at Scattered Village
- Appendix C: Chipped Stone Flaking Debris and Stone Tool Analytic Methods
- Appendix D: Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains From Scattered Village, Site 32MO31
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