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A River Runs Through It: Archaeology along the Lower Mississippi River in Southern Louisiana (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Jackson. Steven J. Filoromo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the history of humankind, rivers have been a central tool for human survival and use. These water bodies have been used as sources of drinking water, obtaining food, bathing, waste disposal, transportation, defense, and later hydropower. Evidence of this usage is still available in the floodplains and...