Cutbank Archeaology (sic)

At prairie level, this Hidatsa village site shows few details of daily life because most evidence lies below the surface, but along the bank repeated floods have exposed a vertical slice of the village that allows archeologists to piece together a day in its life from fragments of pottery, flint, bone, and bone tools emerging from the eroding bluff. The bones show what people hunted, skinned, and ate, including antelope, plains grizzly, elk, buffalo, and deer, and the bone tools reveal both technology and activity. Removed from context, such artifacts become difficult to date or interpret and lose their value.

Stanton, North Dakota · United States