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The Archaeology of Ludlow Cave and Its Significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

W. H. Over
W. H. Over*
Affiliation:
University of South Dakota Museum, Vermillion
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The origin and culture of the older archaeological material taken from Ludlow Cave, Cave Hills, Harding County, South Dakota, in July, 1920, has been subjected to some discussion and speculation. The cave was named after William Ludlow, Chief Army Engineer of the Department of Dakota, who visited it in 1874 while accompanying the Custer Expedition from Fort Abraham Lincoln to the Black Hills.

The cave is located in the northeast quarter of section 12, township 21, range 5 W, in the extreme northwest corner of the state in the Sioux Forest Reserve. Geologically, it is in the Ludlow Division of the Laramie formation, Upper Cretaceous Period. It is irregular in shape, extends back thirty-nine feet, and is sixteen feet wide and ten feet high. The entrance was partially blocked by rocks, each weighing several tons, which had fallen from above.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1936 , pp. 126 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1936

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References

87 Journal of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXXII, No. 1, pp. 80–81, Jan.-Feb., 1932.