Biesterfeldt :
a post-contact coalescent site on the northeastern plains /
W. Raymond Wood

Description

Main Author

Wood, W. Raymond

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press : 1971

Subjects

Antiquities.
Indians of North America > Indians of North America / Antiquities.
Indians, North American > Indians, North American / history.
Archaeology.
Indians of North America > Indians of North America / North Dakota > Indians of North America / North Dakota / Antiquities
North Dakota > North Dakota / Biesterfeldt Site.
North Dakota.
United States.
North Dakota > North Dakota / Antiquities
Biesterfeldt Site (N.D.)

Summary

"Biesterfeldt is a fortified village of about sixty earth lodges on the Sheyenne River in eastern North Dakota. A large central earth lodge faces a central plaza, with dwellings randomly set elsewhere in the village. ... The site is dated about 1750 to 1790, when trade goods had displaced many native tools of bone and stone. In the thirty years since W.D. Strong dug the site, new data have accumulated which require revisions in the interpretation of the Biesterfeldt component: the artifact complex conforms to that of Post-Contact Coalescent sites of the Plains Village pattern in the Missouri River trench to the west."--Abstract page v

Physical Description

xiv, 108 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm

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