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Table 2. SSURGO Soils Geodatabases, obtained from the NRCS Soil Data Mart.
County Database Source
Bon Homme sd009_ BonHomme_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Brookings sd011_Brookings_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Brown sd013_Brown_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Brule sd603_Brule_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Buffalo sd603_Buffalo_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Butte sd019_Butte_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Charles Mix sd023_Charles_Mix_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Codington sd029_Codington_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Davison sd035_Davison_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Dewey sd041_Dewey_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Fall River sd047_Fall_River_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Grant sd051_Grabt_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Haakon sd055_Haakon_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Harding sd063_Harding_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Lawrence sd081_Lawrence_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
McPherson sd089_Mcpherson_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Meade_N sd601_Meade_N_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Meade_S sd600_Meade_S_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Minnehaha sd099_Minnehaha_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Potter sd017_Potter_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Sanborn sd111_Sanborn_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Sully sd119_Sully_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Todd sd121_Todd_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Tripp sd123_Tripp_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
Turner sd125_Turner_soildb_SD_2002.mdb NRCS Soil data mart
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES
Relevant literature was obtained from the University of Iowa Libraries, the OSA archives, and the
author’s personal library. Most sources, however, were drawn from ARMS. ARMS consists of a
Microsoft Access database and two GIS shapefiles, one that shows survey locations, and one that shows
site locations. The Access database contains a number of tables. One of these contains bibliographic
information (authors, titles, publication year, and place of publication) on reports and other references.
The Surveys shapefile is linked to the bibliographic table by a common field, the Archive Number. In
the Sites shapefile, individual archaeological sites are depicted as polygons and identified with their
Smithsonian Institution Trinomial (SITS) site numbers. The SITS numbers are also used in the Access
database to identify information about particular sites. This allows site locations in the GIS data to be
linked to records about that site in the Access database.
The authors field of the ARMS bibliography table was searched for individuals with research
specialties in geoarchaeology. Such names in the database include earth scientists John Albanese, Robert
Brakenridge, Alan Coogan, Rolfe Mandel, James Martin, Michael McFaul, and Everett White, and
archaeologists Joe Artz, James Donohue, Dennis Toom, and David Kuehn. The titles field was searched
for words that potentially identify reports with an explicitly geoarchaeological intent, including
geoarchaeology and geomorphology, as well as keywords that suggest a possibility of deep testing, such
as trench, backhoe, auger, testing, evaluation, and mitigation. Finally, titles with names of sites known
by the author to have deeply buried components were searched for including Jim Pitts, Lange Ferguson,
Beaver Creek Shelter, Lightning Spring, Medicine Crow, and Ray Long.
This initial search returned 74 reports. Of these, 49 were obtained as PDF electronic documents from
ARC via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Others were either in the possession of the author, or obtained
from the University of Iowa libraries, interlibrary loan, or the reports’ authors. Eight additional reports
were obtained during a July 2011 visit to ARC.
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