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Archaeological Investigations At The Adams Bay Site (16pl8), Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana: Assessing Natural And Anthropogenic Effects To A Louisiana Coastal Archaeological Site, Ryan A. Hale
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The Adams Bay site (16PL08), located in the coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, is a precolonial mound site containing an earthen mound on the north edge of a plaza and a remnant mound on the southern edge. The layout of the mounds in cardinal directions around the plaza suggests that this component of the site dates to the Coles Creek period. On the eastern side of the site an extensive, wave-washed and re-deposited oyster (Crassostrea virginica) and rangia (Rangia cuneata) shell midden contains diagnostic Coles Creek, Plaquemine, and Mississippian pottery. Archaeological research at the site …