The Louisiana Archaeological Society
Officers

President: George Riser 2 Magnolia Garden Road Covington, LA 70435 985-892-4433 George Riser, a retired internist, was born and raised in Monroe and has lived in Covington for the past thirty years. He was the first president of the Northlake Chapter of the LAS and helped organize the 1986 annual meeting held in Covington. His interest in archaeology came about largely through the influence of two other northshore residents: Joe Manuel, a past president of the LAS; and Doris Stone, a Mesoamerican archaeologist. He became more deeply involved in archaeology when a local hunter/fisher/trapper who frequented the margins of Lake Pontchartrain presented him with his artifact collection on the condition that he classify and catalogue the potsherds. The Quave ceramic collection, composed almost entirely of Mississippian pottery, formed the basis of a paper read at the 1987 LAS meeting in which he used the restricted distribution of Mississippian pottery to infer that shrimp had been an important prehistoric resource along the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. He has since presented papers at various local and regional meetings about shrimp and crawfish as a prehistoric food resource and is the co-author of one journal article about shrimp as an Archaic food resource on the Pacific coast of Mexico. His main interest is in the historical ecology of Louisiana and in the value of historical ecology in advancing ideas to be tested against the archaeological record. He has served on the Louisiana Antiquities Commission for the past eighteen years and was appointed interim vice-president of the LAS when the previous vice-president, Ellen Ibert, succeeded to the position of president. president@laarchaeology.org Vice President & President Elect: Velicia Bergstrom Pineville Velicia is an archaeologist for Kisatchie National Forest. vicepresident@laarchaeology.org Secretary: Rachel Watson secretary@laarchaeology.org   Treasurer: Josetta LeBoeuf 9364 Rainford Rd Baton Rouge, LA 70810 treasurer@laarchaeology.org   Bulletin Editor: Dr. Charles R. "Chip" McGimsey State Archaeologist Division of Archaeology PO Box 44247 Baton Rouge, La. 70804 225-342-8170 bulletin@laarchaeology.org Chip grew up in Arkansas and began his archaeological career there, before moving on to Illinois for 17 years. After grad school, he took the job as Southwest Regional Archaeologist at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In general, the older something is, the more interesting he finds it, but during his time in Louisiana he has worked on Civil War sites, Acadian farmsteads, historic Indian burials, and American Indian sites of all time periods. He has a particular fondness for the Marksville Period, and the chronology of technological and stylistic change over time. Newsletter Editor: Dennis Jones 224 W. Parkland Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 ofc ph # 225 381 8201 cell ph # 225 572 5464 newsletter@laarchaeology.org Dennis, born in Arkansas, was raised in Memphis, TN. After experiencing an epiphany with a lithic scatter in his grandfather's plowed field near Forrest City, Arkansas, he pondered a caeer in archaeology. Despite being relatively sober for most of his life, he pursued that career anyway. With a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. from LSU, he has worked in many places: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and even exotic Mississippi. A longtime LAS member, he now has the dubious honor of being the newsletter editor. Please feel free to send him any announcements, news, complaints, or praise (?). Webmaster: Junior Doughty 190 Major Doughty Road Tullos, Louisiana 71479 (318) 534-6290 webmaster@laarchaeology.org Junior is a 1960 graduate of LaSalle High School in Olla, Louisiana. Some thirty-five years later, in 1995, he graduated with honors from NSU in Natchitoches, receiving a degree in anthropology with a minor in English. He presently lives in Tullos where he researches Mississippi Delta culture and publishes his research on his popular website, "Junior's Juke Joint," located at http://www.deltablues.net Among many other honors, Junior's Juke Joint was recently selected by the Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, as "The Most Entertaining Online Ethnography."

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