An Analysis Of Ceramics from the Gettysburg Site, 39PO209, Potter County,South Dakota

Abstract

Ceramics recovered from the Gettysburg Site during the summers of 1964, 1965, and 1966 are described and analyzed. A comparison is made with ceramic collections from 19 other sites in the Middle Missouri Valley. Concluding comments demonstrate the relationship of the Gettysburg Site to sites of the Extended Coalescent Horizon.     

An Unusual Pottery Object from South Dakota

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A pottery spoon found at the Rosa Site of South Dakota is briefly described and discussed. The item is suggested to be a reinterpreted product of acculturation.     

A Human Skeleton from the Gillette Site (39ST23), Stanley County,South Dakota

Abstract

A skeleton excavated from a refuse area at the Gillette Site proved to be that of an adult male of advanced age.     

The Meander Site (39Lm20L) In Fort Randall Reservoir,South Dakota

Abstract

The Meander Site (39LM20l) is located on the left bank of the White River in Lyman County, South Dakota, about eight miles above the junction of the White and Missouri rivers. Test excavations at the site were conducted in 1953 by Harold A. Hus cher of the Smithsonian Institution, River BasinSurveys. Though few in number, the artifacts recovered indicate the occupation belongs to the Chouteau Aspect. Ceramic analysis suggests the site was occupied at a time somewhat prior to the occupation of the Crazy Bull Site (Frantz 1962).     

The Sister’s Hill Site And Its Bearing On The Wyoming Postglacial Alluvial Chronology

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Alluvial sediments exposed at the Sister’s Hill Site near Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming shed new light on the stratigraphy of the Ucros s and Kaycee formations and reveal that another stratigraphic unit occurs between these formations in some places. At the Sister’s Hill Site, Hell Gap artifacts occur in the lower part of the new unit and in association with a Carbon-14 date of 9650 B. P.     

The Fort Smith Medicine Wheel,Montana

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The purpose of this article is to present information on a stone configuration in southeastern Montana, the Fort Smith Medicine Wheel (Site 24BH220), and to briefly review information on other known medicine wheels in an attempt to discover the function for which it was constructed.     

Achieving Brownfields Clean Up at a Radium-Contaminated Site

One of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer's (USACE) primary goals in the management of removal actions is to safely implement work activities and cost effectively clean up sites contaminated with residual radioactive materials. The US ACE has successfully pursued a removal action under the Brownfields Initiative at the Cuneo Press Site in Chicago, Illinois. The residual radioactive contamination at the site exceeded background radiation levels for the Chicago area. Residual quantities of Radium-226 (Ra-226) were detected during preremoval characterization surveys performed at the site. The aggressive removal action performed at the site demanded immediate and accurate radiological screening and exposure data. Radiological screening consisted of field monitoring using portable instruments and gamma spectroscopy analysis for Ra-226. The screening data provided verification of compliance to the off-site disposal facility waste acceptance criteria and the site clean up criteria. The screening data, along with the application of guidance presented in NUREG-1575, “Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM)”, demonstrated that the removal action meet clean up criteria established by the Illinois Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the USACE.     

The Archaeology Of The Breeden Site

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The Breeden Site cultural sequence reenforcesthe general culture history already established for the Bad-Cheyenne Region and the more inclusive Middle Missouri Tradition. House remains and the bulk of the ceramic materials from the site indicate habitation of the area by peoples of the Initial Middle Missouri Variant and the PostContact Coalescent Variant.Component A at the Breeden Site and the Monroe and Anderson components at the Dodd Site exhibit a complex of diagnosticcultural traits significant enough to define a new phase - the Anderson Phase. A temporal span of approximately A.D. 950to 1250 is suggested for the phase. Component B of the Breeden Site, an early manifestation of the Post-Contract Coalescent Variant, is closely associated with components of the Felicia Phase and the putative Talking Crow Phase. Breeden Component B probably represents an upriver movement of Coalescent peoples from the Big Bend area, eventually being assimilated into the Arikara populations of the Bad River Phase within the Bad-Cheyenne Region.     

The Kobold Site, 24BH406: A Post-Althithermal Record of Buffalo-Jumping for The Northwestern Plains

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The Kobold Site, 24BH406, contained four components of which the oldest is believed to be an altithermal occupation, Buffalo jumping was not occurring at this time, The other three components produced evidence of buffalo jumping beginning with the early post-altithermal and ending just prior to historic times.     

Early Occupations in Bighorn Canyon,Montana

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Excavation of the Mangus Site (24CB22l) in Bighorn Canyon, Montana revealed a stratum containing artifacts of the Agate Basin Complex. This occupation was dated by radiocarbon at 6740 B. C. and 6650 B. C. The Sorenson Site (24CB202) contained two early cultural levels, one of unknown cultural affiliation datedat 5850 B. C. and 5610 B. C. overlying a second unidentified occupation. Future investigations in Bighorn Canyon may produce artifacts allowing identification of these two occupations.     

Site 48SH312:

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Site 48SH312 is part of an Early Middle Period complex in which at least part of the economy was oriented toward small-scale trapping of bison, utilizing the natural badland topography of the Powder River Basin. Further work is necessary to determine more of the economy as well as temporal and spatial aspects of the complex.     

An Analysis of the Survey Collection from the Pascal Creek Site (39ARl:07), Armstrong County,South Dakota1

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Descr·iptive analysis of a limited survey collection, including primarily ceramics, reveals the Pascal Creek Site to be an 18th century settlement resembling contemporary villages along the Missouri River in central South Dakota affiliated with the Snake Butte Focus.     

A Human Skeleton From The Anthony Site, 14Hp1, Harper County,Kansas

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Measurements, indices and selected non-metric observations are presented for an adult female, the only human skeletal material recovered from the 1959-60 excavation of the Anthony Site, 14HP1. Comparison with other American Indian populations from the same geographic region suggests that the Anthony female is morphologically related to the Caddoan groups.     

Notes on a Lithic Micro-Tool Industry From The Plains Periphery

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Excavations at the Kimberlin Site (23CR301) during the period of 1969-1970 provided evidence of a unique micro-tool assemblage. Because of the unusual nature of this flake tool kit a brief, preliminary consideration of its nature and diversity is presented.     

Comparison of Site I auxin binding and a 22-kilodalton auxin-binding protein in maize

Several properties of a 43-kilodalton (kDa) auxin-binding protein (ABP) having 22-kDa subunits are shared by a class of auxin binding designated Site I. The spatial distribution of the ABP in the maize (Zea mays L.) mesocotyl corresponds with the distribution of growth induced by naphthalene-1-acetic acid and with the distribution of Site I binding as previously shown by J.D. Walton and P.M. Ray (1981, Plant Physiol. 68, 1334–1338). The greatest abundance of both ABP and Site I activity is at the apical region of the mesocotyl. The ABP and Site I activity co-migrate in isopycnic centrifugation with the endoplasmic-reticulum marker, cytochrome-c reductase. Red light, at low and high fluence, far-red and white light were used to alter the elongation rate of apical 1-cm sections of etiolated maize mesocotyls, the amount of auxin binding, and the abundance of the ABP. Relative changes in auxin binding and the ABP were correlated, but the growth rate was not always correlated with the abundance of the ABP.Abbreviations ABP auxin-binding protein - ER endoplasmic reticulum - FR far-red light - kDa kilodalton - NAA naphthalene-1-acetic acid - PM plasma membrane - R red light - SDS-PAGE sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis     

Oligonucleotide Directed Mutagenesis of the E. coli hisS Gene: Introduction of an Ncoi Restriction Site at the Initiating GTG and Cloning of the Mutated Gene to the Expression Vector pKK 233–2

Abstract

Site directed mutagenesis of the E. coli his gene with a double mismatch primer changed the initiation codon GTG to ATG and introduced an Ncol restriction site at the start codon. The promoter-deleted structural gene was cloned to the expression vector pKK 233–2.     

Book Review

Palaeoecological events during the last 15000 years. Regional Synthesis of Palaeoecological Studies of Lakes and Mires in Europe. Berglund, B. E., Birks, H. J. B., Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M. and Wright, H. E. 1996. John Wiley & Sons. 764 pp. 439 Figs and Tables. Appendix: Biostratigraphical Reference Site Tables. Index of Site Names. ISBN 0-471-95840-9. Reviewed by Ann-Marie Robertsson.     

A Magnetometer Survey of the Knife River Indian Villages

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There are several Indian village sites at the confluence of the Knife and Missouri rivers near the town of Stanton, North Dakota. Two of them were examined or tested by D. J. Lehmer in 1965. Four of the sites are now being incorporated into the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. As part of the development of this Historic Site a proton magnetometer survey was carried out in 1976 on parts of Sakakawea Village and the Buchfink Site. In addition, a survey was conducted on part of the Amahami Village in Stanton. This article discusses the theory of magnetic surveying, the varying nature of the regions surveyed, and the extensive results abtained. These results include the identification of at least 12 earth lodge sites with associated features, the correlation of some features in the magnetic data with soil probe information, and a number of suggestive but unidentifed features on which the magnetic measurements focus.     

A Late Prehistoric Bundle Burial From Southern Wyomingc

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A Late Prehistoric bundle burial from the Stone Fence Site in south-central Wyoming produced partial skeletal remains of a middle-aged male of Shoshonean biological affinities.A total of 19 bone beads were found in the grave. Both osteological and cultural interpretations were possible from the previously undisturbed grave and its contents.     

A Preliminary Report on Two Sites at Piney Creek,Wyoming 48J03Ll and 48J031

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During the summer of 1964, the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Archaeological Society conducted exploratory excavations in two sites near Buffalo, Wyoming. Site 48J03ll consists of a number of stone circles and is apparently a camp site and site 48J0312 is a bison kill and butchering site. Artifact assemblages suggest an affiliation with late prehistoric and early historic sites in the Yellowstone River drainage.