Plaquemine archaeology / edited by Mark A. Rees and Patrick C. Livingood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rees, Mark A.

Livingood, Patrick C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plaquemine culture.

Mounds--Louisiana.

Mounds.

Mounds--Mississippi.

Plaquemine pottery--Louisiana.

Plaquemine pottery.

Plaquemine pottery--Mississippi.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Louisiana.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mississippi.

Louisiana--Antiquities.

Louisiana.

Mississippi--Antiquities.

Mississippi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction and historical overview / Mark A. Rees and Patrick C. Livingood

Coles Creek antecedents of Plaquemine mound construction : evidence from the Raffman site / Lori Roe

Extraregional contact and cultural interaction at the Coles Creek-Plaquemine transition : recent data from the Lake Providence mounds, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana / Douglas C. Wells and Richard A. Weinstein

Plaquemine mounds of the western Atchafalaya Basin / Mark A. Rees

Transitional Coles Creek-Plaquemine relationships on northwest Lake Salvador, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana / Malcolm K. Shuman

Plaquemine recipes : using computer-assisted petrographic analysis to investigate Plaquemine ceramic recipes / Patrick C. Livingood

Feasting on the bluffs : Anna Site excavations in the Natchez Bluffs of Mississippi / Virgil Roy Beasley III

Plaquemine culture in the Natchez Bluffs region of Mississippi / Ian W. Brown

The outer limits of Plaquemine culture : a view from the northerly borderlands / Marvin D. Jeter

Contemplating Plaquemine culture / Tristram R. Kidder.

Notes:

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-258) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8146-5

OCLC:

209171611