Indian Burial Mounds in the Missouri River Basin

• Main Author: Neuman, R. W.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: the Digital Archaeological Record
• Subjects: Historic; Archaeological Overview; Historic Background Research; Heritage Management; Sweat Bee Mound; Boundary Mound Site; Eagle Creek Site; Russell Mound; Weeping Water Site; Split Rock Creek Site; Scalp Creek Site; Whistling Hawk Site; Truman Site; Encampment; Village; burial mounds; Hunting Camp; Buffalo Kill; Petroglyphs; Boulder Mosaic; Cairns; Earth Structures; Projectile points; Stone Scrapers; Catlinite Pendant; Shell Bead; Red Pigment; Native Copper Beads; Obsidian; Pottery; Deer Antler; Stone Knives; Scraper; Hammerstone; Awl; Dentalium; Grinding Stone; Bone Beads; Rings; Spoons; Pendants; Drills; Buffallo; Stone Atlatl Weight; Clay Balls; Mandibles; Hudson Bay Company; Donald Gunn; A.J. Comfort; Jacob V. Brown; C.N. Gould; Hudson Bay; Canada; Indian; Hudson; Randall; Gunn; Rock Creek; Split Rock; Blue River
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.6067:XCV8FQ9ZRD_meta$v=1494454500130

Since its inauguration in 1946, the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, along with other cooperating Federal, State and local agencies, has concentrated its efforts toward the salvage of archeological materials that will be lost by the construction of dams and the flooding of reservoirs along the Missouri River and its tributaries. The surveys and excavations have been conducted at historic military forts, trading posts, pioneer settlements and Indian villages; however, most of the investigations have dealt with prehistoric sites which include the large village occupations, hunting and camp sites, buffalo kills, petroglyphs, boulder mosaics, and burial mounds. This short article will be concerned with burial mound sites on the northern and central Great Plains. Although there are a number of important detailed differences between mound groups, and even between the individual tumuli at a single site, certain generalities are apparent.