Demographic and Osteological Evidence for Warfare at the Larson Site, South Dakota
- 16 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Plains Anthropologist
- Vol. 22 (78) , 119-131
- https://doi.org/10.1080/2052546.1977.11908859
Abstract
A demographic and osteological analysis of skeletons from the Larson Village Site (39WW2), Walworth County, South Dakota, is presented. The site was an Arikara village dating to about A.D. 1750-1785. Within the village, the scattered and commingled bones of 71 individuals were discovered. Sixty-one of the skeletons were on earthlodge floors, an extremely unusual occurrence in the Plains. The objective of this analysis was to determine whether the cause responsible for these unburied remains was Intertribal warfare: the evidence is strong that it was.Keywords
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