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Cover: The Marble Game, painting by Martin Pate, New nan, Georgia. (Courtesy of the artist; the Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service; and the Fort Bragg Cultural Resource Management Program) I.1 The Fort Polk area, west-central Louisiana. .................................................. 3 1.1 Chert gravel deposits on the Main Fort at Fort Polk at 16VN403 and 16VN1472................................................................................................... 16 1.2 Chert sources in the Trans-Mississippi Gulf Coastal Plain......................... 17 1.3 Petrified wood chopper and hematite pitted stone from 16VN258; mano and metate from 16VN573; mano and metate from 16VN1136....... 19 2.1 Quarter section random sample survey units on Peason Ridge, FPAS, 1977. ................................................................................................. 28 2.2 Probable Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene tools, Eagle Hill I site (16SA8), Peason Ridge/Eagle Hill locality. ................................................ 30 2.3 Site 16VN18 contours and excavation units, University of South - western Louisiana FPAS excavations......................................................... 31 2.4 Site 16VN18 local vegetation and drainage conditions.............................. 32 2.5 Site 16VN18 total artifact density and site areas A, B, and C.................... 33 2.6 Flake size by depth below surface, 16VN18. .............................................. 34 2.7 Debitage distributions in the Archaic levels in the block unit opened in Area C, 16VN18..................................................................................... 37 2.8 Big Brushy (16VN24) site contours and excavation units, University of Southwestern Louisiana FPAS excavations............................................ 38 2.9 Projectile point and ceramic distributions by level at the Big Brushy site, 16VN24............................................................................................... 40 2.10 Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene tools at the Eagle Hill II site, 16SA50, Peason Ridge/Eagle Hill locality................................................................ 43 2.11 Cultural stratigraphy at the Eagle Hill II site, 16SA50............................... 44 2.12 Quarter section survey units, New World Research, Inc., 1981 sample survey.......................................................................................................... 48 2.13 Site 16SA111 test units, 1982/1983 Eagle Hill locality site-testing program, University of Texas, San Antonio, Center for Archaeological Research...................................................................................................... 50 2.14 Site 16VN334 test units, 1983/1984 intensive testing program, Common- wealth Associates, Inc................................................................................. 52 2.15 Prehistoric sites and isolated finds, as well as sites tested by number, List of Figures List of Figures ix in the 1985/1986 MPRC New World Research, Inc., survey and testing projects........................................................................................................ 55 2.16 Typical projectile point types found on Fort Polk. ...................................... 57 2.17 Blanks and preforms from Fort Polk. .......................................................... 58 2.18 Site 16VN791 map, 1986 New World Research, Inc., intensive testing program, MPRC project area...................................................................... 60 2.19 Transect and shovel test location map produced during an intensive survey project by R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc................. 71 2.20 Site 16VN1234 map produced as part of an intensive survey project by R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates, Inc........................................ 72 2.21 Site 16VN791 map, showing all excavation units...................................... 74 2.22 Site 16VN794 map, showing all excavation units...................................... 78 2.23 Site 16VN794 Locus A excavation block and Feature 6 in Locus B.......... 79 2.24 Radiocarbon dates by depth in the excavation blocks at 16VN794............ 80 2.25 Projectile point sequence at 16VN794........................................................ 82 2.26 Site 16VN1277 map produced as part of the intensive testing project by Prentice Thomas and Associates, Inc..................................................... 88 2.27 Maps for sites 16VN1507 and 16VN1508.................................................. 90 2.28 Site 16VN1690 map produced as part of an intensive survey project by Gulf South Research Corporation.......................................................... 93 2.29 Isolated find shovel test map produced as part of an intensive survey project by Gulf South Research Corporation.............................................. 94 2.30 Biface trajectory flow model for the Fort Polk area. ................................... 96 2.31 Maps for sites 16VN2342 and 16VN2343.................................................. 98 2.32 Site 16VN2534 density plot from the 1998 TRC Garrow Associates, Inc., survey.......................................................................................................... 99 2.33 Kisatchie National Forest base map, showing late nineteenth-century forest conditions........................................................................................ 108 3.1 Shovel test artifact-density rank-size curve from the Commonwealth Associates, Inc., 1983/1984 site-testing project........................................ 127 3.2 Artifact concentrations from site 16VN1816............................................ 134 3.3 Artifact concentrations from site 16VN1820............................................ 135 3.4 Lithic reduction trajectories involving the use of pebble cherts observed at sites on Fort Polk................................................................... 142 3.5 Sandstone mano and metate at 16VN573 and sandstone rock cluster at 140 cm at site 16VN1064...................................................................... 148 3.6 Crude sandstone metate (?) from 16VN1060; sandstone double-basin metate and mano from 16VN398.............................................................. 149 x List of Figures 3.7 Cumulative debitage curves as a means of documenting site function. .... 155 3.8 Scatter diagrams of selected sites from the 1996–1997 SCIAA survey by percent of flakes larger than 2 cm vs. percent of cortical flakes and percent of thinning/retouch flakes vs. percent cortical flakes................... 158 3.9 Assemblage clusters by...