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Bayou Pigeon and the Atchafalaya Basin
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Artifacts
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My brother-in-law got into metal detecting and he went by where my grandfather used to tie up
his house boat and made his living from; and they went around looking for old artifacts, you
know, left over from my grandfather and what not, and they stumbled upon all these clam shells
and stuff. And they located some pottery with some decorations on it, different little indentions on
it, scribed into it. One piece of pottery that I found here recently had a little hole in it.
My wife
and I seem to think it may have been some kind of hanging flower basket. I went out last week
and happened to stop by. The water has receeded enough to kind of look around a little bit and
we found several pieces of pottery with a few designs on it, it's broken pieces of pottery. There's
also bones located in the mound. A canal was dug right through the middle of this mound. It was
more or less their trash pile. I think they call them "middens," that's clam shells, bones, pieces of
pottery. We're supposed to have Southwestern [Louisiana University] archeologists come out and take a
look at this particular site because there are a lot of bones in it and not many places have been
looked into as to what kind of foods the indians ate. But the pottery, I think they have dated it as
far back as 700 A.D. to 1100 A.D., that period there.
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