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Faunal Analysis of the Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24RB2135) in Southeastern Montana
The University of Montana excavated the Tongue River bison kill site (24RB2135) in 2005 on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. This was the site of a prehistoric bison hunt. Over 20,000 bone fragments and over 1,000 stone tools were recovered during the excavation. This study focuses on the bone …
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Faunal Analysis of the Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24RB2135) in Southeastern Montana
The University of Montana excavated the Tongue River bison kill site (24RB2135) in 2005 on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. This was the site of a prehistoric bison hunt. Over 20,000 bone fragments and over 1,000 stone tools were recovered during the excavation. This study focuses on the bone …
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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Tongue River formation (Paleocene), southeast Golden Valley County, North Dakota
… and described with particular emphasis on the Tongue River Formation. Lithologic samples were collected and analyzed for total carbonate content, particle size, particle roundness, and mineral composition. In the area studied, the Tongue River Formation is 763 feet thick which is considerably …
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A stratigraphic and sedimentologic analysis of the Tongue River and Sentinel Butte Formations (Paleocene), western North Dakota
<p> The Tongue River-Sentirel Butte contact has been regarded by many workers as a vague color boundary of minor extent within a relatively homogeneous sequence of Paleocene strata. Consequently, the Sentinel Butte has come to be regarded as a subordinate unit of the ”Tongue River Formation. As …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… procurement on the Northwestern Plains. The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135) is located in southeastern Rosebud County in southeastern Montana. Due to the low number of previously recorded and tested communal bison procurement sites in the area, investigating this site offered a chance to …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… procurement on the Northwestern Plains. The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135) is located in southeastern Rosebud County in southeastern Montana. Due to the low number of previously recorded and tested communal bison procurement sites in the area, investigating this site offered a chance to …
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Stratigraphy of the upper part of the Fort Union Group in southwestern McLean County, North Dakota
… bedrock formations include the Cannonball, Tongue River, and Sentinel Butte Formations, all in the Fort Union Group of Paleocene age.</p> <p>The Cannonball Formation crops out only in the southeastern part of the area studied (at Washburn), where 18 feet of laminated, gray-brown sandy …
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Rates of hillslope lowering in the Badlands of North Dakota
… the southwest-facing hillslopes underlain by the Tongue River Formation, and 0.11 inch per year on the northeast-facing hillslopes underlain by the Tongue River Formation. Soil creep occurs mainly on the Tongue River Formation and is mostly restricted to the northeast-facing hillslopes where the …
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Fort Union (Paleocene) mollusks from southern Golden Valley and southeastern Billings counties, North Dakota
<p>Nine molluscan species are known to occur in Tongue River Sentinel Butte sediments of parts of Billings, Golden Valley, and Slope Counties in southwestern North Dakota. Tongue River sediments contain all nine of the species which include: two unionids, Plesielliptio priscus (Meek and Hayden) and …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
The Tongue River Buffalo Jump Site (24RB2135), located on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana, was excavated during the summer of 2005 by a team of University of Montana anthropology students under the supervision of Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss and Dr. Thomas Foor. This site …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
The Tongue River Buffalo Jump Site (24RB2135), located on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana, was excavated during the summer of 2005 by a team of University of Montana anthropology students under the supervision of Dr. Anna Marie Prentiss and Dr. Thomas Foor. This site …
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Fresh Water Mollusks of the Grassy Butte Area McKenzie County, North Dakota
… and Reesidella. These fauna come from the Tongue River formation and the Sentinel Butte member of the Tongue River formation of upper Paleocene time.</p>
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The geology of the Grassy Butte area, McKenzie County, North Dakota
… upland plain, the Missouri Plateau.</p> <p>The Tongue River formation, including the Sentinel Butte member, and the Golden Valley formation are exposed at the surface. The Tongue River formation is Paleocene in age. The Golden Valley formation, of Eocene age, was determined to be more extensive …
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Characterization of hyporheic zone processes of a northern prairie stream
… organisms. Hyporheic zone boundaries in the Tongue River, North Dakota, were investigated through examination of the physicochemical and biological gradients present in the stream channel and bank sediments. The effects of cattle grazing at the streamside interface of the riparian zone were …
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The surficial geology of north-central Kidder County, North Dakota
… Cretaceous (Pierre formation) through Palocene (Tongue River formation) in age. The Pierre and Fox Hills formations constitute the majority of the pre-Pleistocene surface. Ice-shove deformation, apparently during Cary time, tilted blocks of Fox Hills in the Sibley Buttes into …
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Geology of McLean County, North Dakota
… dip to the west at low angles. The Tertiary Tongue River and Sentinel Butte Formations are widely exposed in McLean County, and the Tertiary Cannonball Formation is exposed in a few places. Glacial drift, assigned to a new formation, the Coleharbor Formation, occurs throughout the county and …
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The stratigraphy of the Sperati Point Quadrangle, McKenzie County, North Dakota
… plains and, adjacent to the Little Missouri River and tributaries, well dissected, well drained, badland areas characterized by extensive slumping. About 570 feet of the Sentinel Butte Member of the Tongue River Formation of Paleocene age is exposed in the quadrangle. The lower 200 to 250 …
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Characterization of a Riparian Wetland Renwick Reservoir, Pembina County, ND
<p>Renwick Reservoir, on the Tongue River near Cavalier, North Dakota, was constructed in 1962 as part of a flood control project. The cost at completion was about $350,000. The reservoir was built assuming a 50-year life expectancy. North Dakota's W ater Quality Assessment Plan concludes that …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
… Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and animal remains. The geoarchaeological …
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Geoarchaeological Assessment of Horseshoe Cave (24RB1094, Rosebud County, Montana
… Montana and at the northern end of the Powder River Basin. Its earliest documented human use and occupation dates to 2,000 years before the present. Evidence of that past use and occupation includes diagnostic bone and stone tools, hearth features and animal remains. The geoarchaeological …
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