A Geoarchaeological Overview of South Dakota and Preliminary

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Figure 1. Archaeological regions of South Dakota (Buechler 1983; Winham and Hannus 1990). Base
map is a 30 m resolution, United States Geological Survey, National Elevation Dataset digital elevation
model.
current state of knowledge, presented in Part I, regarding the processes of erosion and deposition that are
involved in the burial and preservation of buried sites in South Dakota.
This study was conducted by the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist with funding
from the State Historical Society of South Dakota, in response to a Request for Proposals issued by that
agency. The guidelines were also developed in consultation with a voluntary advisory committee with
experience in the state. Through conversation and comments, the committee greatly influenced the
document presented here by honing its focus on the geoarchaeological, methodological, and regulatory
realities of cultural resource management in South Dakota. The committee was comprised of:
Paige Olson, South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office, Pierre, SD
Jim Donohue, South Dakota Archaeological Research Center (ARC), Rapid City, SD
Mike Fosha, ARC
Jim Haug, South Dakota State Archaeologist, ARC
Michael Hilton, U.S. Forest Service,
Mike Kolb, Strata Morph Geoexploration, Sun Prairie, WI
Linea Sundstrom, Daystar Research, Shorewood, WI
Randy Withrow, The Louis Berger Group, Marion, IA
In addition, Andy Clark (ARC), Austin Buhta (Augustana College) and Jeff Buechler (Dakota
Research Services, Rapid City, SD) commented on the draft guidelines.
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