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While these criticisms may be applicable in some instances, they more often oversimplify the issue, and, in so doing, ignore valid and important archeological research efforts that are coming out of disturbed site studies as they pertain to discrete sites. This study supports the cogency of this argument through an intensive, systematic investigation of a disturbed multi-component cultural deposit in the Lower Sabine River Drainage Basin of southwestern Louisiana, site 16CU190. Situated along the left channel margin (east ascending) of Old River, the site comprised a historic deposit and a remnant subsistence refuse (shell-bearing midden) presumed to be irrevocably despoiled and exhausted of information potential. 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