Louisiana

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Archaeological Sites

Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation
Beyond the Great House, an electronic book from the Louisiana Department of Archaeology on this 19th century plantation in Ascension Parish.

Bailey's Dam
From the Louisiana Department of Archaeology, archaeological investigations into a dam built during the Civil War by Union soldiers attempting to escape down the Red River.

Blythewood Plantation
Excavations at a sugar plantation located about 10 km south of Plaquemine, Louisiana; an article in African-American Archaeology Newsletter.

Burnside Cemetery
A rural Louisiana African-American cemetery near Houmas House suggests that it may date back to the antebellum period; an article from African-American Archaeology Newsletter, which you'll have to scroll down to read

Fort Jean Baptiste
In Nachitoches, early 18th century, reconstructed French fort on the border with Nueva España; from the Old Mobile website.

Gabe Nargot's Cabin
From the National Park Service, archaeological investigations at an 18th century slave cabin in Cane River country.

Maginnis Cotton Mill
From the University of New Orleans, the standing circa 1882 Maginnis Cotton Mill, 19th-century residences, a circa 1860 brewery, and the Duplessis Plantation dating to 1765 in Louisiana.

Nina Plantation
A brief article on excavations at this 19th century plantation in New Roads, Louisiana, from African-American Archaeology Newsletter, which you'll have to scroll down to read.

El Nuevo Constante
From the Louisiana Department of Archaeology, an electronic book on this 18th century Spanish merchant ship wrecked off the coast of Louisiana in 1766.

Old Baton Rouge Penitentiary
From Connie Nobles, a very interesting article on the invisibility of women and children in representations of the past, particularly this prison, an article abstract from American Antiquity.

Orvis Scott Site
A Poverty Point complex site in northeastern Louisiana, an abstract from the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Poverty Point
An electronic book from the Louisiana Department of Archaeology on this important Terminal Archaic mound site.
     The 1999 Poverty Point Mapping Project A paper by Tristram Kidder

Storyville
An abstract on recent research on the famous brothel in New Orleans, from Archaeology magazine.

Watson Brake
Archaic period mound group in Louisiana, described in an article abstract in Archaeology magazine.

Edward Douglas White House
Excavations by Louisiana State at this, the home of the Supreme Court Justice best known for the ruling which established the legality of the "separate but equal" philosophy that dominated race relations in the South into the 1960s. An article in African-American Archaeology Newsletter, which you'll have to scroll down to read.

Research Institutions

Arkansas Archeological Survey
Conducts research in Arkansas and Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Louisiana Division of Archaeology
The Louisiana Division of Archaeology has state and federal roles relating to recording, protecting, and distributing information about the state's archaeological sites.

University of New Orleans
The Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program is a research and public outreach project operated under the auspices of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of New Orleans.

Tulane University  New Orleans
MA, PhD Mesoamerica

Current Researchers

Kathleen Byrd
Northwestern State University, Louisiana; public archaeology, zooarchaeological methods, subsistence and settlement; past research on Poverty Point, currently involved in   heritage and cultural resources management and administration.

Hiram "Pete" Gregory
Northwestern State University, Louisiana; Louisiana archaeology (prehistoric and colonial); Native Americans, Anglo-American and Louisiana French fishing communities, the African-American culture of the plantation regions, and the Anglo-Saxon culture of the upland South

Tommy "Ike" Hailey
Northwestern State University, Louisiana;  underwater archaeology, southeastern US and the Caribbean; currently involved in a multiple-year project with the Louisiana Army National Guard preserving and protecting significant sites on National Guard properties throughout the state of Louisiana.

Tristram R. Kidder and Gayle J. Fritz
Subsistence and Social Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley: The Reno Brake and Osceola Sites, Louisiana, Coles Creek (ca. A.C. 700-1200) and early Mississippi (ca. A.C. 1200-1500) periods; an article abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology

Cultural History

Colonial Louisiana History and Genealogy
Includes many archaeological links and discussion of the 16th, 17th and 18th century French and American occupations of the Louisiana territory.

Louisiana Prehistory
From the Louisiana Department of Archaeology, an electronic book on the archaeology of Louisiana.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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