Archaeology

Archaic Period
The Archaic Period refers to the time between 9500 and 650 BC in the Native American history of Arkansas. As w...
Arkansas Archeological Society
The Arkansas Archeological Society (AAS) is a statewide organization created for the purpose of uniting all pe...
Arkansas Archeological Survey
In 1967, the Arkansas legislature created the Arkansas Archeological Survey (Act 39), the first statewide coor...
Battle Mound Site
The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...
Civil War Archaeology
Since the late twentieth century, Civil War archaeology has been a thriving research area. Arkansas has been a...
Crenshaw Site
The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...
Edwin Curtiss (1830–1880)
Edwin Curtiss, a nonprofessional field man who excavated archaeological sites and collected antiquities, is cr...
Dalton Period
The Dalton Period extends from 10,500 to 9,900 radiocarbon years ago (circa 8500 to 7900 BC), during which the...
Hester Ashmead Davis (1930–2014)
Hester Ashmead Davis was an internationally known archaeologist, administrator, writer, and professor. She was...
Samuel Claudius Dellinger (1892–1973)
Samuel Claudius Dellinger was curator of the University of Arkansas Museum in Fayetteville (Washington County)...
Eaker Site
The Eaker Site is a large, prehistoric archaeological site located near Blytheville (Mississippi County) on la...
James Kelly Hampson (1877–1956)
One of the few amateur archaeologists to be honored with an obituary in American Antiquity, Dr. James Kelly Ha...
M. R. Harrington (1882–1971)
aka: Mark Raymond Harrington
Mark Raymond Harrington was a pioneer in the field of archaeology i...
Head Pots
Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...
Historical Archaeology
Archaeologists do more than study the ancient remains of Native Americans; they are also interested in the liv...
Thomas L. Hodges (1868–1953)
Thomas Luther Hodges was a noted physician and amateur archaeologist in Hot Spring County in the early twentie...
Indian Mounds
Indian Mounds were constructed by deliberately heaping soil, rock, or other materials (such as ash, shell, and...
Menard-Hodges Site
Archaeological investigations at the Menard-Hodges site near Nady in Arkansas County since the late 1800s hav...
Mississippian Period
The Mississippian Period is one of several broad categories (including Paleoindian, Archaic, and Woodland) tha...
Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936)
Clarence Bloomfield Moore was an amateur archaeologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who investigated hundr...
Native American Pottery
Indians in Arkansas began making pottery containers about 2,500 years ago, during the Woodland Period, and the...
Nodena Site
The Nodena Site in Mississippi County is an archaeological site representing Native American life in Arkansas ...
Ozark Bluff Dweller Myth
Early archaeologists misinterpreted artifacts excavated from sites in the Ozark Mountain region to form theori...
Paleoindian Period
The term “Paleoindian” refers to a time 13,500 years ago (11,500 BC) at the end of the last ice age when t...
Edward Palmer (1830?–1911)
Edward Palmer conducted most of the fieldwork for the first major study of Indian mounds in Arkansas. His rese...
Parkin Archeological State Park
Parkin Archeological State Park in northeast Arkansas preserves and interprets a Mississippian-period Native A...
Parkin Historic Site
The Parkin Historic Site is a seventeen-acre Native American village site along the St. Francis River in Cross...
Peeler Bend Canoe
The Peeler Bend Canoe is an extremely rare and well-preserved relic of Arkansas’s Native American heritage. ...
Petit Jean Rock Art Sites
Petit Jean Mountain in west-central Arkansas boasts a large concentration of ancient Native American rock art ...
Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park
Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (previously the Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park) near Scott ...
Rattlesnake Basket Rockshelter
The Rattlesnake Basket Rockshelter (3NW79) is located in southeastern Newton County near the top of the Boston...
Native American Rock Art
Rock art is a term archaeologists use to describe images on rock surfaces created both prehistorically and his...