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Title
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Indian and French Interaction in Colonial Louisiana During the Early Eighteenth Century
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Date
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1998
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Bibliographic Citation
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Silvia, Diane F. 1998. Indian and French Interaction in Colonial Louisiana During the Early Eighteenth Century. PhD dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans.
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• Discusses excavations and results of limited testing of 1MB147, a Native American household and surrounding yard area, with the apparent use of the structure dating between 1702 and 1711.
o A shallow wall trench and numerous ephemeral post holes were excavated, an earthen clay floor and walls.
o Presence of Apalachee style pots as well as Port Dauphin and Doctor Lake series made determining tribal affiliation and identity difficult.
o Observation that the Native American structure faced the cardinal directions, which is in opposition to the French structures which were laid out on a grid.
• Also discussed excavations of Native American structure excavation in Mound L at 1BA2
o Wall trench with daub and post holes, possibly dating to the middle eighteenth century (Silvia 1998:266)
o Pottery assemblage includes Fatherland Incised, Old Town Red, Mission Red-Filmed, Pensacola Red Filmed, Port Dauphin Incised, and Chickachae Combed, as well as a few French Colonial items such as beads and metal; no European made ceramics were recovered.
o The structure was continuous with the earlier structures beneath it, similar in construction form, orientation, etc.
• Noted that both structures were placed to mitigate impacts of (known) flooding (Silvia 1998:349).