ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND PREDICTIVE MODELING by David G. Anderson (Editor), Steven D. Smith (Editor) ( 9780817312718 )

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Title:

ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND PREDICTIVE MODELING
THIRTY YEARS OF RESEARCH AT FORT POLK

By:

David G. Anderson (Editor), Steven D. Smith (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0817312714

ISBN 13:

9780817312718

Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS

Pub. date:

30 June, 2003

Edition:

2nd ed.

Pages:

648

Description:

Fort Polk Military Reservation has been the subject of an extensive programme of survey, excavation, testing and large-scale data and artifact recovery, as well as historic and archival research, since the 1970s. This volume synthesizes this information, to allow predictive modelling.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

154 illustrations

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Imprint:

The University of Alabama Press

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