Coastal Louisiana’s Vanishing Archaeological Record: The Last Investigations at the Adams Bay Mounds Site (16PL8)
Author(s): Brian Ostahowski; Jayur Mehta; Theodore Marks
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Sea level rise coupled with coastal erosion and subsidence has created an unprecedented land loss crisis for coastal Louisiana. This presentation provides an overview of the effects of land loss to coastal Louisiana’s archaeological record observed at different scales (coast-wide, regional, and the individual archaeological site) and highlights the 2018 summer fieldwork at the Adams Bay Site (16PL8). This site is a Plaquemines mound complex (1200-1500 AD) located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, which will be fully destroyed by coastal erosion and subsidence in just under eight years.
Cite this Record
Coastal Louisiana’s Vanishing Archaeological Record: The Last Investigations at the Adams Bay Mounds Site (16PL8). Brian Ostahowski, Jayur Mehta, Theodore Marks. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449935)
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Keywords
General
Coastal and Island Archaeology
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Mississippian
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Sea Level Rise
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Survey
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 24460