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.
Notes on verification
Directly confirmed by Scott's own quoted statement and corroborated by NPS historical marker, American Surveyor article, and Wikipedia entry detailing the multidisciplinary team and methodology. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- The Archaeology of Battlefields - Magazine Issue Archive (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://savingplaces.org/stories/interview-qa-little-bighorn-archaeologist-douglas-scott (corroboration)
- https://amerisurv.com/2009/10/17/verdict-at-the-little-bighorn/ (corroboration)
- https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=86810 (corroboration)