Author: Richard A. WeinsteinPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Cultural Resources Investigations in the Terrebonne Marsh, South-central Louisiana
Author: Richard A. WeinsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Cultural Resources Investigations in the Terrebonne Marsh, South-central Louisiana
Author: Richard A. WeinsteinPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Cultural Resources Investigations Related to the Terrebonne Marsh Backwater Complex, Terrebonne, St. Mary, and Assumption Parishes, Louisiana
Author: Richard A. WeinsteinPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Cultural Resources Investigation Along a Portion of Little River in Central Louisiana
Author: Prentice M. ThomasPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 67
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Cultural Resources Investigations on Grand Terre Island, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Author: Benjamin MaygardenPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Plaquemine Archaeology
Author: Mark A. ReesPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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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.
Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley
Author: Roger T. SaucierPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The Woodland Southeast
Author: David G. AndersonPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 697
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This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record. In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast.
Cultural Resources Survey of EABPL Off-site Borrow Areas, Levee Items E-64, E-76, and E-84a, Iberville, Iberia, and Assumption Parishes, Louisiana
Author: Todd McMakinPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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