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Contents<br />

Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v<br />

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii<br />

1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT 1<br />

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2 History of Investigations at 39CU1144 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

2 ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT 7<br />

2.1 <strong>The</strong> Black Hills Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2.1.1 Physical Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2.1.2 Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.1.3 Drainage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.1.4 Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.1.5 Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.1.6 Distribution of natural resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.2 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Site</strong> Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

3 ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT 21<br />

3.1 <strong>The</strong> Area and Its Significance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.2 Previous Investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

3.3 Prehistory of the Black Hills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

3.3.1 Paleoindian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

3.3.2 Early Plains Archaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

3.3.3 Middle Plains Archaic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

3.3.4 Late Archaic and Plains Woodland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

3.3.5 Late Prehistoric and Plains Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

3.3.6 Protohistoric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

3.3.7 Historic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

4 RESEARCH ORIENTATION 37<br />

4.1 Research Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

4.2 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Blaine</strong> <strong>Site</strong> Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

4.3 Functional <strong>Site</strong> Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

4.4 <strong>The</strong> Resource Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />

4.5 Settlement and Subsistence Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />

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