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suggest houses often closely spaced, laid out in a regular plan, around a plaza; some sites seem to have a.more scattered house site plan, but still within a reasonably confined area'.
Agriculture, supplemented by some hunting and fishing, appears to be the economic base.
Plaquemine Culture
Principal sources of data are Medora, Greenhouse, Anna, Gordon, and Bayou Goula.
Diagnostic characteristics are Plaquemine Brushed pottery. Other decorations are derived directly from Coles Creek. Changed architectural and settlement patterns from earlier period.
Temporal placement is based on CK1- dates from the Tensas Basin (?); some stratigraphy and presence of diagnostic characteristics noted a-bove.
Distribution is throughout the lower portions of the Valley on both sides of the River, from the Gulf to the Louisiana-Arkansas lone on the west (possibly to the Arkansas River); and to the lower half of the Yazoo Basin, until replaced there in the late time periods by Mi ss i ss i pp ian.
At the conferences which compiled this data no one was present wh6 could cover the characteristics of Plaquemine culture.
Natchezan Culture
Principal sources of data are Anna, Emerald and Fatherland. No one was present at the conferences to present further data.
This concludes the series of articles on the status of the knowledge of the archaeology of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. It is hoped that by this fall a series of brochures or at least a phamplet will be available which can fill in members of the Association much better than this has done. Bear in mind that the accumulation of knowledge is really quite slow. What comes out of the field this year may take three to ten years to get ,?mto publication. A great part of this will be already known, that which is unknown will take time to understand its significance. The researchers will spend much time studying their finds, writing their reports and then there is the tremendous job of seeing it printed. All takes time. On top of this, there is little money available for research or printing.
MUSEUM HANDBOOK.
There seems to be a bit of museumitis running through the ranks of the Mississippi Archaeological Association. This is a healthy situation. One must, however, guard against the much too often occurring disease or side effect of poor displays, uninteresting exhibits, and monotony which collects in museums about as quickly as dust. Arminta Neal has prepared a very fine handbook to help those persons who have not been professionally trained in museum work but who want to do a good job.
This book, HELP! FOR THE SMALL MUSEUM: HANDBOOK OF EXHIBIT IDEAS AND METHODS, is just the medicine to bring any diseased museum out of its