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Volume 2019 Article 5 2019 Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana Jeffrey S. Girard Northwestern State University of Louisiana Charles R. McGimsey Louisiana Division of Archaeology Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Regional Heritage Research at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana2019
Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century
Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Jeffrey S. Girard Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Charles R. McGimsey Louisiana Division of Archaeology
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita
Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons,
Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities
Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History
Commons
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Regional Heritage Research at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected].
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Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Current Research: Discovery and Recovery of a 14th Century Dugout Canoe on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
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