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The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. It is an active paleontological excavation site at which research and excavations are continuing. The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
According to the South Dakota State Historical Society's Archaeological Research Center, over 26,000 archaeological sites have been recorded in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [1] This list is broken down by county and encompasses sites across all of what is now South Dakota. Only notable sites are listed.
English: The Mammoth Site is a working paleontological dig site in South Dakota. Shown here are unearthed mammoth fossils recovered from the sinkhole sediments. Shown here are unearthed mammoth fossils recovered from the sinkhole sediments.
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota (18 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in South Dakota" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Mammoth Site museum allows visitors to watch the excavation of these ancient mammals in real-time. Amid the evergreen forests and picturesque hilltops in the Black Hills of South Dakota is a ...
On September 10, 1804, four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition recorded in their journals a fossil discovery along the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Gregory County in south-central South Dakota. The find was a 45-foot-long (14 m) articulated vertebral column, ribs, and teeth at the top of a high ridge.
Pages in category "Archaeological museums in South Dakota" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The research since 2006 has uncovered an Eden component at the site in addition to the Alberta component. The site was managed for two years by The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota under the supervision of the United States Forest Service. As of 2009, the site is managed by the US Forest Service out of Chadron, Nebraska.