Morganza to the Gulf Feasibility Study: Cultural Resources Literature and Records Review, Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana. Volume I
Abstract
This volume presents the results of a cultural resources literature and records review for a feasibility study of two proposed levee alignments and associated water control structures in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes, Louisiana. The cultural resources portion of the feasibility study is a planning effort intended to assist the Corps of Engineers in carrying out its obligations under the National Historic Preservation Act (NPHA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to take into account the effect of its undertakings upon cultural resources within the project area. Although this study initially was completed in 1997, it has been revised and reprinted in conjunction with a Phase I cultural resources survey and archaeological inventory of a 405 ha (1,000 ac) sample of the levee alignment corridors (see Volume II). This new edition incorporates minor changes in the proposed Morganze to the Gulf Feasibility Study levee Alignment corridors. In keeping with the Scope of Work, the study reported here was conducted with the following objectives: (1) To provide an overview of regional prehistory, history, and previous cultural resource investigations; (2) to identify and describe previously recorded cultural resource sites within the project area based upon available documentation; (3) to describe the local geology and environment, especially as they relate to the identification and interpretation of cultural resources; (4) using an appropriate methodology, the develop a predictive model of culture resource site location for the project area; (5) to provide an ethnohistoric/socio-economic overview of Houma Indian communities in the project area; and (6) to create and provide a series of 1:24,000 scale maps illustrating the locations of all previously recorded cultural resources, high and low potential areas for cultural resources, and the locations of Houma Indian communities identified within the ethnohistoric/socioeconomic overview.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA388777
Entities
People
- Clifford T. Brown
- Dave D. Davis
- Julian Granberry
- Lynn A. Berg
- Roger Saucier