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Poverty Point Sites in Southeastern Louisiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Sherwood M. Gagliano  and
Roger T. Saucier
Sherwood M. Gagliano
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Roger T. Saucier
Affiliation:
U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Abstract

Two small shell middens, containing numerous Poverty Point objects and associated with a 4000-year-old subdelta of the Mississippi River, have been located in the Pontchartrain Basin. Dated by the radiocarbon method at approximately 1740 B.C., the sites have been established as a separate phase of the Poverty Point horizon. A third site, characterized by abundant imported stone and a well-developed microflint industry, is believed to be contemporaneous with the Poverty Point and Jaketown sites.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963 , pp. 320 - 327
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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