Archeology and Bioarcheology of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Trans-Mississippi South in Arkansas and Louisiana

摘要

The volume is the sixth and final regional cultural resource overview prepared by the Arkansas Archaeological Survey for the U.S. Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division. The overview takes in all of Louisiana except for the western portions of two parishes that were included in the Gulf Coastal Plains overview. It also covers the Arkansas counties that were not discussed in the Ozark Mountains-Arkansas River-Ouachita Mountains overview. In the opening chapters of the volume, previous archaeological investigations are reviewed in detail, and the history of cultural resource management in the area is summarized. The overview then unfolds the area's archaeological past in its entirety, from prehistoric through protohistoric to historic. The latter period is discussed not only in terms of Native Americans, but of Euramericans, African-Americans, and Asian Americans as well. The bioarchaeology of the Louisiana-Arkansas is analyzed in later chapters; numerous tables and appendixes contain pertinent analyses of data from Native American burials. Areas where further research is needed are clearly delineated. A final chapter synthesizes the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence in adaptive terms.