Macro and Micro Floor Stratigraphy from Poverty Point Ridge 2 Northwest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Poverty Point’s concentric ridges have long been assumed to be residential areas despite an absence of archaeological evidence for houses. In 1991, a field school excavation was initiated based on a core that suggested a possible clay floor buried ~60 cm below the surface. Sixteen 2 × 2 units were opened, but most were not completed, and three of the more informative units lay open for months following the field school. Unfortunately, no final report was produced and many of the records and artifacts are now missing, making it impossible to evaluate the outcome of the excavation. Diana Greenlee recently led a project to reopen two of the completed units to uncover and analyze the ridge stratigraphy preserved in the old unit profiles. In this paper I describe the stratigraphy and micromorphological evidence for constructed and used floors.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• *SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research

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Abstract Id(s): 39218.0