La topographie des Black Hills est ahurissante.
Albeit recorded history of the district starts with the Sioux mastery of the land over the local Arikara clans, scientists have cell based dating and stratigraphic records to break down the early history of the region. Researchers have had the option to use cell based dating to assess the time of instruments found in the territory, which show a human nearness that dates as far back as 11,500 BC with the Clovis culture. Stratigraphic records demonstrate natural changes in the land, for example, flood and dry spell designs. For instance, enormous scale flooding of the Black Hill bowls happens at a likelihood pace of 0.01, making such floods happen once in at regular intervals. In any case, during The Medieval Climate Anomaly, or the Medieval Warm Period, flooding expanded in the bowls. A stratigraphic record of the zone shows that during this 400-year time frame, thirteen 100-year floods happened in four of the locale's bowls, while a similar four bowls from the past 800 years just experienced nine floods.