Center and Satellite

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Ross-Stallings
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
High Status ◽  
Mississippi River Delta ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Biological Stress ◽  
The People ◽  
Wild Resources ◽  
Economic Relationship

The Mississippi River Delta between A.D. 1400 and 1600 was a resource-rich area with a large variety of domestic and wild resources, allowing Mississippian people to be better nourished than many. Yet community-level hierarchies may have been a major factor structuring biological stress across the landscape. Ross-Stallings compares health status from human remains from the Hollywood site (a high-status mound center) and the Flowers #3 site (a low-ranked satellite of the Hollywood center). Greater prevalence of biological stress and poorer diets are found among the people of the satellite settlement, which reflected differential access to resources. This was further underscored by an extractive economic relationship, as the Hollywood chiefs likely siphoned off various forms of tribute in the form of food from their subaltern neighbors.

The less considered part: Contextualizing immaterial heritage from German colonial contexts in the restitution debate

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mèhèza Kalibani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Inventory Data ◽  
Sound Recordings ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
The People ◽  
Available Information

Abstract Since the publication of the “restitution report” by Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy in November 2018, the debate around the restitution of African artifacts inherited from German colonialism in German museums has become increasingly intense. While the restitution debate in Germany is generally focused on “material cultural heritage” and human remains, this reflection attempts to contextualize the “immaterial heritage” (museum collections inventory data, photographs, movies, sound recordings, and digital archive documents) from German colonialism and plead for its consideration in this debate. It claims that the first step of restitution consists of German ethnological museums being transparent about their possessions of artifacts from colonial contexts, which means providing all available information about museum collections from colonial contexts and making them easily accessible to the people from the former German colonies.

Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 846-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Shields ◽  
Thomas S. Bianchi ◽  
David Mohrig ◽  
Jack A. Hutchings ◽  
William F. Kenney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Mississippi River Delta

The Effects of Hurricane Camille on the Marshes of the Mississippi River Delta

Ecology ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 1118-1123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Chabreck ◽  
A. W. Palmisano
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mississippi River Delta

The Giving Delta- A “Systems Approach” To a Consolidated and Sustainable Lower Mississippi River Delta

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hird ◽  
Jeff Shelden ◽  
Tim Denton ◽  
Robert Twilley ◽  
Ioannis Georgiou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Mississippi River Delta ◽  
Lower Mississippi River

scholarly journals Hurricanes as a Major Driver of Coastal Erosion in the Mississippi River Delta: A Multi-Decadal Analysis of Shoreline Retreat Rates at Bay Champagne, Louisiana (USA)

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Dietz ◽  
Kam-biu Liu ◽  
Thomas Bianchette
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi River ◽  
Average Rate ◽  
Landsat Imagery ◽  
Mississippi River Delta ◽  
Coastal Lake ◽  
Shoreline Retreat ◽  
The Past ◽  
Coastal Features ◽  
Mexico Coast

The Louisiana shoreline is rapidly retreating as a result of factors such as sea-level rise and land subsidence. The northern Gulf of Mexico coast is also a hotspot for hurricane landfalls, and several major storms have impacted this region in the past few decades. A section of the Louisiana (USA) coast that has one of the highest rates of shoreline retreat in North America is the Caminada-Moreau headland, located south of New Orleans. Bay Champagne is a coastal lake within the headland that provides a unique opportunity to investigate shoreline retreat and the coastal effects of hurricanes. In order to examine the influence of hurricanes on the rate of shoreline retreat, 35 years (1983–2018) of Landsat imagery was analyzed. During that period of time, the shoreline has retreated 292 m. The overall rate of shoreline retreat, prior to a beach re-nourishment project completed in 2014, was over 12 m per year. A period of high hurricane frequency (1998–2013) corresponds to an increased average shoreline retreat rate of >21 m per year. Coastal features created by multiple hurricanes that have impacted this site have persisted for several years. Bay Champagne has lost 48% of its surface area over the last 35 years as a result of long-term shoreline retreat. If shoreline retreat continues at the average rate, it is expected that Bay Champagne will disappear completely within the next 40 years.

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