Author: David B. KelleyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Cultural Resources Evaluation of the Lower Atchafalaya Backwater Area, South Louisiana
Author: David B. KelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Cultural Resources Evaluation of the Upper Atchafalaya Backwater Area, Iberville and Pointe Coupee Parishes, South Louisiana
Author: Douglas C. WellsPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Cultural Resources Evaluation of the Upper Atchafalaya Backwater Area, Iberville and Pointe Coupee Parishes, SOuth Louisiana
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The results of cultural resources investigations conducted by Coastal Environments, Inc., in the Upper Atchafalaya Backwater Area of southeast Louisiana are presented. The research was carried out under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District in relation to the Lower Atchafalaya Basin Reevaluation Study. The study area encompassed about 335 sq mi (539 sq km) and included portions of Iberville and Pointe Coupee parishes, specifically focusing on spoil areas for proposed dredging. The areas of potential impact included 500 foot right-of-ways on either side of Bayou Maringouin, Bayou Grosse Tete, Choctaw Bayou, Portage Canal, and Lighthouse Canal. In that large natural levee formations were the landforms with the highest probability of cultural resources, Bayous Maringouin and Grosse Tete were the foci of the sample survey. The first phase of the study involved the development of a research design that summarized existing information on the geomorphology, ecology, history and archaeology of the area and presented a model of prehistoric and historic settlement there. The second phase of the study consisted of a sample survey of 500 acres within the impact areas designed to gather data to test the model developed in the research design. In addition, previous collections from sites in the study area were reanalyzed and three previously recorded sites located in the study area were revisited and information on them updated.
Archaeology of Louisiana
Author: Mark A. ReesPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807137952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Archaeology of Louisiana provides a groundbreaking and up-to-date overview of archaeology in the Bayou State, including a thorough analysis of the cultures, communities, and people of Louisiana from the Native Americans of 13,000 years ago to the modern historical archaeology of New Orleans. With eighteen chapters and twenty-seven distinguished contributors, Archaeology of Louisiana brings together the studies of some of the most respected archaeologists currently working in the state, collecting in a single volume a range of methods and theories to offer a comprehensive understanding of the latest archaeological findings. In the past two decades alone, much new data has transformed our knowledge of Louisiana’s history. This collection, accordingly, presents fresh perspectives based on current information, such as the discovery that Native Americans in Louisiana constructed some of the earliest-known monumental architecture in the world—extensive earthen mounds—during the Middle Archaic period (6000–2000 B.C.) Other contributors consider a variety of subjects, such as the development of complex societies without agriculture, underwater archaeology, the partnering of archaeologists with the Caddo Nation and descendant communities, and recent research in historical archaeology and cultural resource management that promises to transform our current appreciation of colonial Spanish, French, Creole, and African American experiences in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Accessible and engaging, Archaeology of Louisiana provides a complete and current archaeological reference to the state’s unique heritage and history.
Plaquemine Archaeology
Author: Mark A. ReesPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
First major work to deal solely with the Plaquemine societies. Plaquemine, Louisiana, about 10 miles south of Baton Rouge on the banks of the Mississippi River, seems an unassuming southern community for which to designate an entire culture. Archaeological research conducted in the region between 1938 and 1941, however, revealed distinctive cultural materials that provided the basis for distinguishing a unique cultural manifestation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Plaquemine was first cited in the archaeological literature by James Ford and Gordon Willey in their 1941 synthesis of eastern U.S. prehistory. Lower Valley researchers have subsequently grappled with where to place this culture in the local chronology based on its ceramics, earthen mounds, and habitations. Plaquemine cultural materials share some characteristics with other local cultures but differ significantly from Coles Creek and Mississippian cultures of the Southeast. Plaquemine has consequently received the dubious distinction of being defined by the characteristics it lacks, rather than by those it possesses. The current volume brings together eleven leading scholars devoted to shedding new light on Plaquemine and providing a clearer understanding of its relationship to other Native American cultures. The authors provide a thorough yet focused review of previous research, recent revelations, and directions for future research. They present pertinent new data on cultural variability and connections in the Lower Mississippi Valley and interpret the implications for similar cultures and cultural relationships. This volume finally places Plaquemine on the map, incontrovertibly demonstrating the accomplishments and importance of Plaquemine peoples in the long history of native North America.
The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Author: Clarence Bloomfield MoorePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.
Archeology and Ethnology on the Edges of the Atchafalaya Basin, South Central, Louisiana
Author: Jon L. GibsonPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Baton Rouge Loop, Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville, Livingston, and West Baton Rouge Parishes, Louisiana
Author: Historic Properties Management Plan for the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System Project, South Louisiana
Author: David B. KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atchafalaya Basin (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Cultural Resources Evaluation of Portions of the Aloha-Rigolette Area, Louisiana Flood Control Project, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Author: M. K. ShumanPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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