![]() State archaeologists have been working at the Deadwood site, in the Black Hills 50 miles northeast of Rapid City, for three years. Last summer, Ivey drove his RV to this lab, run by the state's Archaeological Research Center, to participate in the excavation of a 19th-century Chinese neighborhood buried under the fabled Wild West boomtown of Deadwood (once home to Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane). "I found a pair of tweezers, right there," he said, pulling out a rusted, V-shaped strip of metal and carefully putting it aside. With his right, he nudged a pair of stainless-steel forceps into the dark earth. With his left hand, he adjusted his trucker's cap. ![]() In a small lab on the outskirts of Rapid City, South Dakota, Donn Ivey, an itinerant researcher whose business card reads "Have Trowel, Will Travel," swiveled in his chair and peered into a small pile of dirt.
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