Huff Village was probably inhabited for only about 20 years, and new radiocarbon assays run in 2000 on individual fragments of charred corn and corncob gave a probable calendar age range from AD 1443 to AD 1465. Earlier efforts, including fourteen radiocarbon dates and several tree-ring dates, had failed to narrow its age more closely than a century or two. The village's houses were nearly all rectangular, marked by oblong or non-circular ground depressions, but maps made between 1908 and 1919 showed only circular house depressions because circular earthlodges were the only form known from eyewitness historic accounts and rectangular houses had not yet been discovered by excavation in North Dakota. Later maps more accurately showed Huff Village's unusually strong pattern of houses arranged in tightly packed rows. Archeologists assign Huff Village to the Plains Village pattern, whose people lived mainly in large communities along the Missouri River and combined farming with intensive bison hunting.