A range fire at the Little Bighorn Battlefield served as the catalyst for Douglas Scott's focus on battlefield archaeology, enabling a multidisciplinary team to study the site with new field and analytical methods.
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- The Archaeology of Battlefields - Magazine Issue Archive (archive.archaeology.org)
- https://savingplaces.org/stories/interview-qa-little-bighorn-archaeologist-douglas-scott (savingplaces.org)
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