Hoffer Site
"The Hoffer site is but one of several known aboriginally occupied locations within the Eagle Creek/Missouri River confluence locality (Figure 2). Included therein are the bordering upland benches and dissected prairie surface which provide a potentially ever-expandable zone of resource exploitation. The prehistoric and protohistoric human interactions that took place across these contiguous, but varying landscapes is difficult to document in detail for each. However, it is reasonable to predict that the behavior of these hunter gatherers was systematic, patterned, and largely continuous across exploited landscapes where essential life-support resources could be obtained seasonally or year round." "Represented at nearby sites are the material remains of such resource selection behavior as lithic utilization workshops, isolated cairn markers, and alignments of cairns associated with food procurement (driving bison), with settlement behavior represented by tipi ring encampments. Understanding the underlying economic orientations and activities, which are the most prominent and obvious of surviving reflections of daily life, is the key to characterizing and modeling the lifeways of these early plainsmen, as they are manifested locally. Recordation of these surficially evident features and artifacts is important in its own right." Cultural Succession at the Hoffer Site and Eagle Creek Confluence. Davis and Aaberg. |
Artifacts from the Hoffer Site |
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