ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Illustrations for this booklet have been generously contributed by several people. Robert Neuman, Louisiana State University, provided photographs of Monk’s Mound ([cover]), a projectile point ([p. 1]), a vessel from the Clarence H. Webb Collection ([p. 2]), a shell midden ([p. 2]), and of excavation pits ([p. 15]). Debbie Woodiel, State Parks, gave permission to use an illustration from her thesis ([p. 5]). The American Museum of Natural History permitted reproduction of the Poverty Point site map ([p. 1]), and New Orleans East provided the illustration on [page 13]. All other photographs are from the files at the Division of Archaeology, and have been taken by staff archaeologists through the years.