Tulane University-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Symposium on Cultural Heritage of the Lower Mississippi River Valley

in Louisiana

in conjunction with Louisiana Archaeology Week, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism

October 4, 1997

Tulane Elmwood Campus

Morning

Chairperson: Edwin A. Lyon (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and

Tulane University)

·        Introductory remarks

·        Colonel William L. Conner (District Engineer, New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers).  Introductory remarks

·        Thomas H. Eubanks (State Archaeologist, Louisiana Division of Archaeology).  Louisiana archaeology

·        George C. Flowers (Department of Geology, Tulane University).  Mississippi River Landform Development

·        Joe Saunders (Regional Archaeologist, Northeast Louisiana University.  Mounds on the Edge: Prehistory on the West Side of the Mississippi.

·        Donald E. Devore (Amistad Center, Tulane University)

·        Joan M. Exnicios (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and Edwin A. Lyon (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tulane University). Archaeology of Mississippi River Plantations

·        Eugene D. Cizek (School of Architecture, Tulane University)..  Architecture of Lower Mississippi Valley

Afternoon

Chairperson: Richard A. Marksbury (University College,

Tulane University)

·        Terrence Fitzmorris (University College, Tulane University).  Down By the Riverside: New Orleans as a Port of Immigration

·        Jill-Karen Yakubik and Benjamin Maygarten (Earth Search, Inc.).  Foundations of Sugar Production: Historic Archaeology in Louisiana Sugar Houses

·        Video on underwater archaeology of the U.S.S. Eastport

·        Shannon Dawdy (University of New Orleans).  New Orleans Archaeology

·        Colin M. MacLachlan (Department of History, Tulane University)  Summation

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