Lotte Govaerts
@lottegovaerts.bsky.social
Archaeologist. This is my professional account.
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32MN1 – Fort Floyd (originally published 2021 04 06)
Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32MN1 – Fort Floyd
In this post I examine the history and archaeology of site 32MN1, the site of an 1820s trading post called Fort Floyd. The site, now under the water of Lake Sakakawea, was located in Mountrail County,...
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February 16, 2026 at 2:40 PM
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32MN1 – Fort Floyd (originally published 2021 04 06)
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam Archaeology: Village Sites (originally published 2021 02 21)
Garrison Dam Archaeology: Village Sites
Return to our series on the historic archaeology of the Missouri Basin Project, with an installment on the archaeology of the Garrison Dam survey area. [Note: the site descriptions in this blog post a...
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February 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam Archaeology: Village Sites (originally published 2021 02 21)
New on the blog (repost): End of Year Update, Part II: Cataloging and Field Work (originally published 2020 01 02)
End of Year Update, Part II: Cataloging and Field Work
This is the second part of an update discussing the various projects we've been working on over the past few months. You can find the first part, in which Dan discusses his writing about encounters be...
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February 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
New on the blog (repost): End of Year Update, Part II: Cataloging and Field Work (originally published 2020 01 02)
New on the blog (repost): February 2019 Lab Update (originally published 2019 02 14) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
February 2019 Lab Update
The cataloging work on the 39BF2 (Medicine Crow) collection continues, though the project was unavoidably on hold during the shutdown. Since our last update on that work, Lotte has finished numbering ...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:23 PM
New on the blog (repost): February 2019 Lab Update (originally published 2019 02 14) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
New on the blog (repost): Cataloging the Medicine Crow Site (39BF2) (originally published 2018 09 24)
Cataloging the Medicine Crow Site (39BF2)
Medicine Crow (39BF2) is a complex, multi-component site in Buffalo County, South Dakota. It includes Plains Village as well as Archaic components. The Plains Village components have been assigned to ...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
New on the blog (repost): Cataloging the Medicine Crow Site (39BF2) (originally published 2018 09 24)
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part V: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (originally published 2018 02 22)
Travels in North Dakota, Part V: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Fort Union was the longest-lived of the Upper Missouri trade posts. Established in 1828 by the American Fur Company’s new “Upper Missouri Outfit” (UMO), it operated continuously through 1867. As we’ve...
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February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part V: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (originally published 2018 02 22)
New on the blog (repost) Travels in North Dakota, Part IV: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (originally published 2018 02 03)
Travels in North Dakota, Part IV: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site includes 1,758 acres of National Park, just north of Stanton, North Dakota. Inside the park boundaries are over 50 archaeological sites, estimated to...
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February 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
New on the blog (repost) Travels in North Dakota, Part IV: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (originally published 2018 02 03)
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part III: Fort Clark State Historic Site (originally published 2017 11 21) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
Travels in North Dakota, Part III: Fort Clark State Historic Site
By Lotte Govaerts (This post was originally published on the Rogers Archaeology Lab blog on November 21, 2017. You can see the original post archived here.) This is the third installment in a blog ser...
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February 9, 2026 at 11:15 PM
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part III: Fort Clark State Historic Site (originally published 2017 11 21) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part II: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan. (Originally posted 2017 11 14)
Travels in North Dakota, Part II: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan
By Lotte Govaerts (This post was originally published on the Rogers Archaeology Lab blog on November 14, 2017. You can see the original post archived here.) This is the second post in a blog series on...
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February 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part II: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan. (Originally posted 2017 11 14)
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part I: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park (originally posted 2017 11 07)
Travels in North Dakota, Part I: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park
One of the first places Mat and I visited in North Dakota was Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, located about seven miles south of Mandan. The park does not close entirely for winter, but during the o...
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February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
New on the blog (repost): Travels in North Dakota, Part I: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park (originally posted 2017 11 07)
New on the blog (repost): Lake Sakawea and the Woman It Was Named After (originally published 2017 10 10)
Lake Sakakawea and the Woman It Was Named After
The reservoir created by the construction of Garrison Dam was originally referred to as Garrison Reservoir. Its name was eventually changed to Lake Sakakawea, after the Native woman who served as a tr...
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February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
New on the blog (repost): Lake Sakawea and the Woman It Was Named After (originally published 2017 10 10)
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam (originally published 2017 10 03)
Garrison Dam
This blog post is part of a series discussing my research on the historical archaeology of the River Basin Surveys (RBS). In a previous post I discussed how the Pick Sloan Plan for the Upper Missouri ...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:20 PM
New on the blog (repost): Garrison Dam (originally published 2017 10 03)
New on the blog (repost): Happy National Bison Day! (Originally posted 2016 11 05) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
Happy National Bison Day!
Since 2012, the first Saturday in November has commemorated the North American Bison (also known as the American Buffalo) by honoring its contribution to North American ecology, history, and culture. ...
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February 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
New on the blog (repost): Happy National Bison Day! (Originally posted 2016 11 05) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
New on the blog (repost): How Everyday Objects Can Tell Us about the Past: Twentieth-Century Examples From Our Collections Work (originally posted 2017 05 08)
How Everyday Objects Can Tell Us about the Past: Twentieth Century Examples From Our Collections Work
By Lotte Govaerts (This post was originally published on the Rogers Archaeology Lab blog on May 08, 2017. You can see the original post archived here.) Many collections associated with the River Basin...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
New on the blog (repost): How Everyday Objects Can Tell Us about the Past: Twentieth-Century Examples From Our Collections Work (originally posted 2017 05 08)
New on the blog (repost): Real Stories Behind The Revenant, Part III: Fort Kiowa (originally posted 2016 08 11) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...
Real Stories behind The Revenant, part III: Fort Kiowa – Research Updates
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February 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
New on the blog (repost): Real Stories Behind The Revenant, Part III: Fort Kiowa (originally posted 2016 08 11) lottegovaerts.net/blog/index.p...