
Archaeology, History and Predictive Modeling
Thirty Years of Research at Fort Polk
The University of Alabama Press
Published on 27. August 2003
Book
Hardback
648 pages
978-0-8173-1270-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fort Polk Military Reservation encompasses approximately 139,000 acres in western Louisiana 40 miles southwest of Alexandria. As a result of federal mandates for cultural resource investigation, more archaeological work has been undertaken there, beginning in the 1970s, than has occurred at any other comparably sized area in Louisiana or at most other sites in the southeastern United States. The extensive program of survey, excavation, testing, and large-scale data and artifact recovery, as well as historic and archival research, has yielded a massive amount of information. While superbly curated by the U.S. Army, the material has been difficult to examine and comprehend in its totality. With this volume, Anderson and Smith collate and synthesize all the information into a comprehensive whole. Included are previous investigations, an overview of local environmental conditions, base military history and architecture, and the prehistoric and historic cultural sequence. An analysis of location, environmental, and assemblage data employing a sample of more than 2,800 sites and isolated finds was used to develop a predictive model that identifies areas where significant cultural resources are likely to occur. Developed in 1995, this model has already proven to be highly accurate and easy to use. Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling will allow scholars to more easily examine the record of human activity over the past 13,000 or more years in this part of western Louisiana and adjacent portions of east Texas. It will be useful to southeastern archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
154 illustrations
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-1270-1 (9780817312701)
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Unknown | David G. Anderson | Joseph W. Joseph
Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling
Research at Fort Polk, 1972-2002
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09/2009
1st Edition
University of Alabama Press
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Persons
David G. Anderson is an archaeologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida, and coeditor of The Woodland Southeast. Steven D. Smith is with SCIAA in Columbia, South Carolina. J. W. Joseph and Mary Beth Reed are with New South Associates in Stone Mountain, Georgia.