Poverty Point, a Late Archaic Site in Louisiana. James A. Ford , Clarence H. Webb

1958 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-299
Keyword(s):  
Late Archaic ◽  
Poverty Point

The Extent and Content of Poverty Point Culture

1968 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence H. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Mound Construction ◽  
Type Site ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
Poverty Point ◽  
Cultural Developments

AbstractLate Archaic developments along the Gulf Coast and up the Mississippi Valley, after 2000 B.C., contributed a substantial base for the Poverty Point culture. New coastal and inland discoveries bring the total number of Poverty Point sites to 34, with many additional possibilities.A study of 70,000 artifacts from the type-site is reported; the known cultural content is increased by numerous new traits. The thesis is advanced that Formative elements of Mesoamerican origin, including ceremonial organization, massive mound construction, village planning, ceramics, figurines, advanced lapidary industry, and probable agriculture, enriched the basic Archaic culture and contributed to subsequent cultural developments in the valley.

Archaic and Poverty Point Zoomorphic Locust Beads

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence H. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Late Archaic ◽  
Time Level ◽  
Southern States ◽  
Multicultural Context ◽  
Poverty Point

AbstractZoomorphic beads of carved and polished hard stone, most often red jasper, have been found in Late Archaic, Poverty Point or unknown context across the southern states from western Louisiana and Arkansas to western Alabama. These beads have features that resemble locusts, specifically the grasshopper and the cyclical cicada. The most regularly accentuated feature is a midbody disc or projecting plate that is thought to represent the auditory organs or vibrating membranes of these insects and which participate in production of a relatively tremendous volume of sound. It is proposed that the locust bead concept, involving an element of magic, spread across the southern states in multicultural context at a time level near 1000 B.C.

scholarly journals The Pine Saddle site (3PL1080) in the Ouachita Mountains, Polk County, Arkansas

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Bo Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
The South ◽  
Ouachita Mountains ◽  
Tool Manufacture ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Indian Populations ◽  
East And West ◽  
Local Materials ◽  
Poverty Point

Novaculite was procured and knapped by aboriginal Indian populations living in southwestern Arkansas for thousands of years, and there are numerous prehistoric novaculite quarries in the Ouachita Mountains. In Late Archaic times. this desirable material was widely traded and exchanged with other groups to the south, east, and west, particularly with the peoples living at the Poverty Point site and environs in the lower Mississippi valley in northern Louisiana. Later groups such as the Caddo also made considerable use of this material, since it was in their traditional homelands, and many habitation sites and mound centers in the region contain quantities of novaculite lithic debris and tools. Other local materials were also chosen for lithic tool manufacture, such as Big Fork chert, a distinctive black chert. Abundant amounts of novaculite and Big Fork chert are also found apparently in nondomestic Caddo contexts on lithic workshops and camp sites in the Ouachita Mountains, and one such site is discussed in this article.

Below-the-Watertable Archaeology at Lamoka Lake

1983 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Michael Gramly
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York State ◽  
Middle Woodland ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
York State ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Central New York ◽  
Lake Site

A trench excavated into the waterlogged fringe of the Lamoka Lake site in central New York state yielded cultural stratigraphic zones with abundant artifacts and food remains. A peaty layer resting upon Late Archaic beach or streamside deposits produced late Middle Woodland (Kipp Island phase) ceramics and stone implements. Discoveries of wood, fruit pits, and nuts in the same layer as well as rich congeries of animal bones indicate that the archaeological potential of the Lamoka Lake site is not exhausted.

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