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.