Tristram R. Kidder

Publications and Papers

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Articles

Kidder, Tristram R., and David A. Barondess
1981 A Proposed Bone Tool Classification: a Case Study From Southeast Louisiana. Louisiana Archaeology 8: 89-108.

Davis, Dave D., Tristram R. Kidder, and David A. Barondess
1983 Reduction Analysis of Simple Bone Industries: An Example From the Louisiana Coastal Zone. 
Archaeology of Eastern North America 11: 98-108.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1985 Artifacts. In A Consideration of the Early Classic Period in the Maya Lowlands, edited by G.R. Willey and P. 
Mathews, pp. 95-110. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany, 
Publication 10, Albany.

1988 The Koroa Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippi Archaeology 23(2): 1-42.
1990 The Ouachita Indians of Louisiana: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Investigation. L
ouisiana Archaeology 12: 179-202.

1990 Ceramic Chronology and Culture History of the Southern Ouachita River Basin: Coles Creek to the Early 
Historic Period. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 15: 51-99.

1991 New Directions in Poverty Point Settlement Archaeology: An Example From Northeast Louisiana. In Poverty 
Point Culture: Its Local Manifestations, Subsistence Practices, and Trade Networks, edited by K. Byrd. 
Geoscience and Man 29: 27-53. School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Roger T. Saucier
1991 Archaeological and Geological Evidence for Protohistoric Water Management in Northeast Louisiana. 
Geoarchaeology: An International Journal 6: 307-335.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1992 Timing and Consequences of the Introduction of Maize Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley. 
North American Archaeologist 13: 15-41.

1992 Coles Creek Period Social Organization and Evolution in Northeast Louisiana. In Lords of the Southeast: 
Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America, edited by A. Barker and T. Pauketat, 
pp. 145-162. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 3, Washington, D.C.

1992 Excavations at the Jordan Site (16MO1), Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Southeastern Archaeology 11: 109-131.

1993 The Glendora Phase: Protohistoric-Early Historic Culture Dynamics on the Lower Ouachita River. In 
Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams, edited by J. Stoltman, 
pp. 231-260. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Reports 26, Jackson.

Fritz, Gayle J., and Tristram R. Kidder
1993 Recent Investigations Into Prehistoric Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Southeastern 
Archaeology 12: 1-14.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Gayle J. Fritz
1993 Subsistence and Social Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Excavations at the Reno Brake and Osceola 
Sites, Louisiana. Journal of Field Archaeology 20: 281-297.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1994 Matheny: A Multicomponent Site on Bayou Bartholomew, Northeast Louisiana. Midcontinental Journal 
of Archaeology 19: 137-169.

Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., Tristram R. Kidder, Whitney J. Autin, Klaas van der Borg, Arie F. M. de Jong, 
Cornelius J. W. Klerks, Els M. A. Snijders, Joep E. A. Storms, Remke L. van Dam, and Michael C. Wieman
1996 A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas. Science 273: 1693-1696.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1996 Perspectives on the Geoarchaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In The Geology of the Lower Mississippi 
Valley: The Half Century Since Fisk, 1944, edited by R. Saucier, W. Autin, and L. Smith. Engineering Geology: 
An International Journal 45: 305-323.

1997 Sugar Reflotation: An Alternative Method for Sorting Flotation Derived Heavy Fraction Samples. 
Journal of Field Archaeology 24: 39-45.

1998 Coles Creek Culture. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by G. Gibbon, 
pp. 171-173. Garland Publishing, New York.

1998 The Rat that Ate Louisiana: Aspects of Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta. In 
Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by W. Balée, pp. 141-168. Columbia University Press, New York.

Kidder, Tristram R., and William Balée
1998 Epilogue. In Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by W. Balée, pp. 405-410. Columbia University 
Press, New York.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1998 Sugar Reflotation and Curation: A Response to Baker and Shaffer. Journal of Field Archaeology 25: 371.

1998 Mississippi Period Mound Groups and Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley. In Mississippian 
Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar, edited by R. B. Lewis and C. Stout, pp.123-150. 
University of Alabama Press.

1998 Rethinking Caddoan-Lower Valley Interaction. In The Native History of the Caddo: Their Place in 
Southeastern Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by T. Pertulla and J. Bruseth, pp. 129-143. 
Studies in Archeology 30. Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., Tristram R. Kidder, and Whitney J. Autin
In press A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas: Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy. 
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.

Research Reports (Limited Distribution or Unpublished Professional Reports)

Kidder, Tristram R.
1982 Faunal Analysis. In Archaeological Survey of Grand Bayou, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, by David D. Davis, 
Marco Giardino, Vicki Carpenter, and Ken Jones, pp. 101-105 and Appendix A. Louisiana Division of Archaeology, 
Baton Rouge.

1983 Management Summary: Archaeological Survey in the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1983. 
Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (26 pages).

1986 Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1985. Lower 
Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10. Lower Mississippi Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 
Cambridge (409 pages, 13 maps, 23 figures, 42 tables, 32 plates).

Kidder, Tristram R., and Diane M. Ring
1986 Stevenson, 16RI14 (22-J-2). In Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, 
Louisiana, 1985, by T.R. Kidder, pp. 85-165. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10, Lower Mississippi 
Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Saucier, Roger T., and Tristram R. Kidder
1986 Physical Environmental Setting. In Final Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, 
Louisiana, 1985, by T.R. Kidder, pp. 8-33. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin 10. Lower Mississippi 
Survey, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1987 Final Report on Archaeological and Geomorphic Testing in the Jordan Site Area, Morehouse Parish, 
Louisiana: 1986. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge 
(30 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables).

1989 Management Summary: Archaeological Investigations at the Osceola and Reno Brake Sites, Tensas Parish, 
Louisiana. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (7 pages).

1990 Final Report on the 1989 Archaeological Investigations at the Osceola (16TE2) and Reno Brake (16TE93) Sites, 
Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Tulane University, Center For Archaeology, Archaeological Report 1. Report submitted 
to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (107 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables, 1 appendix).

1993 1992 Archaeological Test Excavations in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Tulane University, Center For Archaeology, 
Archaeological Report 2. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, Baton Rouge (181 pages, 27 figures, 12 tables, 3 appendices).

Jones, Kenneth, Herschel A. Franks, Tristram R. Kidder, Jill-Karen Yakubick, and Benjamin Maygarden
1993 Cultural Resources Survey of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Dredged Material Disposal Areas, 
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report 
No. COELMN/PD-93/08, New Orleans (259 pages, 52 figures, 21 tables).

Jones, Kenneth, Herschel A. Franks, and Tristram R. Kidder
1994 Cultural Resources Survey and Testing for Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion, St. Charles Parish, 
Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-93/01, 
New Orleans (Two volumes, 622 pages, 105 figures, 93 tables).

Jones, Patrick J., and Tristram R. Kidder
1994 Results of the 1993 Historic Taensa Survey, Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Tulane University, Center For 
Archaeology, Archaeological Report 3. Report submitted to the Office of the State Archaeologist, 
Baton Rouge (38 pages, 7 figures, 26 tables, 2 appendices).

Earnest, Howard Jr., and Tristram R. Kidder
1994 Prehistoric Sites. In Cultural Resources Survey of Mississippi River Levee and Revetment Projects, 
M270.2 to 246.0-R, edited and compiled by J-K. Yakubik, pp. 237-265. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural 
Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-93/09, New Orleans (Two volumes).

Kidder, Tristram R.
1995 Archaeological Data Recovery at 16JE218, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-95/03, New Orleans (431 pages, 107 figures, 55 tables, 9 plates).

Dawdy, Shannon L., Kenneth Jones, Larry Santeford, and Tristram R. Kidder
1995 Cultural Resource Survey and Testing of Natural Resources Conservation Service Project BA-2 
Supplement No. 2. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-95/05, 
New Orleans (110 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables, 5 plates).

Yakubik, Jill-Karen, Benjamin Maygarden, Tristram R. Kidder, Shannon Dawdy, Kenneth Jones, Roger T. Saucier, 
Gayle Fritz, Allen Saltus, and Charlene Keck
1996 Archaeological Data Recovery of the Camino Site (16JE223), A Spanish Colonial Site Near New Orleans, 
Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Cultural Resources Series Report No. COELMN/PD-96/01, 
New Orleans (360 pages, 51 figures, 63 tables, 12 plates).

Lee, Aubra L., Rhonda L. Smith, Jill-Karen Yakubik, Tristram R. Kidder, Ruben Saenz, II, Benjamin Maygarden, 
Gayle J. Fritz, and Roger T. Saucier
1997 Archaeological Data Recovery at the Birds Creek Site (16CT416), Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. 
Earth Search, Inc., New Orleans (236 pages, 47 figures, 34 tables).

Book Reviews

1987 Review of Hemmings, E.T., and J. House, editors, The Alexander Site, Conway County, Arkansas. 
Southeastern Archaeology 6(1): 75-76.

1988 Review of Kniffen, F.B., H.F. Gregory, and G. Stokes, The Historic Indians of Louisiana: From 
1542 to the Present. Man 23: 576-577.

1990 Review of Jenkins, N., and R. Krause, The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory. 
American Anthropologist 92: 545-546.

1991 Review of Schambach, F., editor, Coles Creek and Mississippi Period Foragers in the Felsenthal Region o
f the Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippi Archaeology 26 (2): 78-85.

1994 Review of Sabo, G. Paths of Our Children. Ethnohistory 41: 168-169.

1997 Review of Saucier, R. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley. 
Mississippi Archaeology 31(2): 64-69.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

Kidder, Tristram R., and Stephen Williams
1984 Archaeological Survey in the Northern Boeuf Basin, Louisiana: A Preliminary Report. Paper presented at 
the 10th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1985 Poverty Point Culture in Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Louisiana 
Archaeological Society, Monroe.

1985 Jordan: A Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Site in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 42nd 
annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham.

1986 Late Marksville Culture in Northeast Louisiana: the Johnson and Hegwood Bayou Phases. Paper presented at 
the 12th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Covington.

1986 Lower Mississippi Survey Test Excavations in the Central Boeuf Basin, Louisiana, 1985. Paper presented at 
the 12th annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Covington.

1987 Prehistory and Early History of the Lower Ouachita River Basin. Paper presented at the 44th annual meeting 
of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Charleston.

1987 Protohistoric and Early Historic Ceramics From Bayou Bartholomew and Ouachita River, Louisiana: A 
Reevaluation of the Glendora Phase. Paper presented at the 29th Caddo Conference, Bossier City, Louisiana.

1988 Coles Creek Culture in the Tensas Basin: A View From the Heartland. Invited paper presented at the symposium 
"Coles Creek and Their Neighbors," 45th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, 
New Orleans.

1989 The Lower Mississippi Survey in the 1980s: An Overview. Invited paper presented at the symposium "The 
Lower Mississippi Survey and Its Contributions to Southeastern Archaeology," 46th annual meeting of the 
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tampa.

1989 Archaeology in the Tensas Basin, Louisiana: Troyville and Coles Creek. Paper presented at the 15th annual 
meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Alexandria.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Gayle J. Fritz
1990 Late Woodland Settlement and Subsistence: Excavations at the Reno Brake and Osceola Sites, Tensas Parish, 
Louisiana. Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1990 The Timing and Consequences of the Introduction of Maize Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Paper 
presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Society For American Archaeology, Las Vegas.

1991 Current Research in Troyville and Coles Creek Cultures in the Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at 
the symposium "Research in the Mississippi Valley: The State of the Art," 56th annual meeting of the Society for 
American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1992 Historic Indians in Northeast Louisiana. Paper presented at the 13th Midsouth Conference, Moundville, Alabama.

1992 Caddoan-Lower Valley Interaction in the Southern Red and Ouachita River Valleys. Invited paper presented at 
the symposium "The Native History of the Caddo Indians," 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological 
Conference, Little Rock.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Douglas C. Wells
1992 Baytown Period Settlement Organization in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Paper presented at the 49th annual 
meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock.

Fritz, Gayle J., Christopher J. Smith, and Tristram R. Kidder
1992 Plaquemine Plant Use in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern 
Archaeological Conference, Little Rock.

Jones, Kenneth R., and Tristram R. Kidder
1992 Test Excavations at a Late Marksville/Baytown Site on a Deteriorating Delta Lobe East of New Orleans. Paper 
presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock.

Jones, Kenneth R., Tristram R. Kidder, and Maria Tavaszi
1993 Excavations at a Late Marksville/Baytown Site in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 19th 
annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Lafayette.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1993 Lower Mississippi Valley and Western Gulf Coast Prehistory: A Summary. Invited paper presented at the 3rd 
Avery Island Conference on Southeastern Archaeology, Avery Island, Louisiana.

1994 Excavations at the Blackwater Site (16TE101), Tensas Parish, Louisiana. Paper presented at the 20th annual 
meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, Kenner.

1994 Bayous, Levees, and the Terre Trembler: Historical Ecology in the Mississippi River Delta. Invited paper 
presented at the Miniconference on Historical Ecology, Tulane University, New Orleans.

1994 Alluvial Geoarchaeology from a Mississippi Valley Perspective. Invited paper presented at the conference 
"Geology in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Implications for Engineering: The Half Century Since Fisk, 1944." 
Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg.

1994 Changes in the Landscape: The Southern Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper presented at the symposium
"Changes in the Landscape: The Lower Valley and Elsewhere&endash;A.D. 1000 to Present," 51st annual meeting of the 
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

Wells, Douglas C., Patrick Jones, and Tristram R. Kidder
1994 The Bayou Des Familles Site: Site Structure and Settlement in the Barataria Basin, Louisiana. Paper presented 
at the 51st annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Lexington.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1995 Prehistory to History in the Ouachita River Valley. Invited paper presented at the Clarence H. Webb Memorial 
Conference, Louisiana State Museum, Shreveport.

1995 History, Narrative, and the Structure of Archaeological Inquiry. Paper presented at the 60th annual meeting 
of the Society For American Archaeology, Minneapolis.

Kidder, Tristram R., and Patrick Jones
1995 Social and Technological Context of Protohistoric Lithic Tool Production in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited
 paper presented at the symposium "Lithic Analysis and Behavioral Implications," 52nd annual meeting 
of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville.

Kidder, Tristram R.
1996 Recent Radiocarbon Dates from the Tensas Basin and their Implications for the Chronology of the Coles Creek 
and Early Mississippi Periods. Paper presented at the 22nd annual meeting of the Louisiana Archaeological Society, 
Shreveport.

1996 The Development of Late Woodland Mound Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Invited paper 
presented at the symposium "Ancient Monuments of the Lower Mississippi Valley," 61st annual meeting of the 
Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1996 The Conceptual Structure of Lower Mississippi Valley Archaeology, ca. A.D. 800-1543. Invited paper 
presented at the symposium "Current Research in Native American Archaeology in Louisiana," 61st 
annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans.

1996 Is There Evidence for Significant Cultural Change on the Northern Gulf Coast and Lower Mississippi 
Valley ca. A.D. 536 and Immediately After?. Invited paper presented at the symposium "A.D. 536 and Its Aftermath,"
 53rd annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Birmingham.

1997 Mississippian in the Mississippi River Delta: Bayou Petre Revisited. Invited paper presented at the symposium 
"Archaeology of the Northern Gulf Coast," annual meeting of Mississippi Archaeological Association, Biloxi.

1997 Archaeology and Paleoecology in the Mississippi River Delta. Invited paper presented at the "Workshop on 
Mississippi River Delta Paleoecology," NASA Earth Systems Science Office, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.

1997 Discussion. Invited paper presented at the symposium "Protohistory and Archaeology," 
54th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge.

1998 The Use of Fish Otoliths to Assess Pre-Contact Settlement Organization Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico. 
Paper presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.

1998 Sea Level, Delta Formation, and Human History in the Mississippi River Delta. 
Invited paper presented at the symposium "Centuries of Change: Human Transformation of the Lower Mississippi," 
Randall L. Gibson Tulane University-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Conference on the Mississippi River, 
New Orleans.

Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Tristram R. Kidder, and Whitney J. Autin
1998 A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas &endash;Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy. 
Invited paper presented at the symposium "Sequence Stratigraphy in the Northern Gulf of Mexico," 
annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Austin.

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