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Figures vii Tables xi Preface xiii 1. Introduction and Historical Overview / Mark A. Rees and Patrick C. Livingood 1 2. Coles Creek Antecedents of Plaquemine Mound Construction: Evidence from the Raffman Site / Lori Roe 20 3. Extraregional Contact and Cultural Interaction at the Coles Creek–Plaquemine Transition: Recent Data from the Lake Providence Mounds, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana / Douglas C. Wells and Richard A. Weinstein 38 4. Plaquemine Mounds of the Western Atchafalaya Basin / Mark A. Rees 66 5. Transitional Coles Creek–Plaquemine Relationships on Northwest Lake Salvador, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana / Malcolm K. Shuman 94 6. Plaquemine Recipes: Using Computer-Assisted Petrographic Analysis to Investigate Plaquemine Ceramic Recipes / Patrick C. Livingood 108 7. Feasting on the Bluffs: Anna Site Excavations in the Natchez Bluffs of Mississippi / Virgil Roy Beasley III 127 8. Plaquemine Culture in the Natchez Bluffs Region of Mississippi / Ian W. Brown 145 9. The Outer Limits of Plaquemine Culture: A View from the Northerly Borderlands / Marvin D. Jeter 161 Contents 10. Contemplating Plaquemine Culture / Tristram R. Kidder 196 References Cited 207 Contributors 259 Index 261 vi contents ...

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