The Archaic Period refers to the time between 9500 and 650 BC in the Native American history of Arkansas. As w...

The Arkansas Archeological Society (AAS) is a statewide organization created for the purpose of uniting all pe...

In 1967, the Arkansas legislature created the Arkansas Archeological Survey (Act 39), the first statewide coor...

The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...

Since the late twentieth century, Civil War archaeology has been a thriving research area. Arkansas has been a...

The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...

Edwin Curtiss, a nonprofessional field man who excavated archaeological sites and collected antiquities, is cr...

The Dalton Period extends from 10,500 to 9,900 radiocarbon years ago (circa 8500 to 7900 BC), during which the...

Hester Ashmead Davis was an internationally known archaeologist, administrator, writer, and professor. She was...

Samuel Claudius Dellinger was curator of the University of Arkansas Museum in Fayetteville (Washington County)...

The Eaker Site is a large, prehistoric archaeological site located near Blytheville (Mississippi County) on la...

One of the few amateur archaeologists to be honored with an obituary in American Antiquity, Dr. James Kelly Ha...

Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...

Archaeologists do more than study the ancient remains of Native Americans; they are also interested in the liv...

Thomas Luther Hodges was a noted physician and amateur archaeologist in Hot Spring County in the early twentie...

Indian Mounds were constructed by deliberately heaping soil, rock, or other materials (such as ash, shell, and...

Archaeological investigations at the Menard-Hodges site near Nady in Arkansas County since the late 1800s hav...

The Mississippian Period is one of several broad categories (including Paleoindian, Archaic, and Woodland) tha...

Clarence Bloomfield Moore was an amateur archaeologist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who investigated hundr...

Indians in Arkansas began making pottery containers about 2,500 years ago, during the Woodland Period, and the...

The Nodena Site in Mississippi County is an archaeological site representing Native American life in Arkansas ...

Early archaeologists misinterpreted artifacts excavated from sites in the Ozark Mountain region to form theori...

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 conducted most of the fieldwork for the first major study of Indian mounds in Arkansas. His rese...

Parkin Archeological State Park in northeast Arkansas preserves and interprets a Mississippian-period Native A...

The Parkin Historic Site is a seventeen-acre Native American village site along the St. Francis River in Cross...

The Peeler Bend Canoe is an extremely rare and well-preserved relic of Arkansas’s Native American heritage. ...

Petit Jean Mountain in west-central Arkansas boasts a large concentration of ancient Native American rock art ...

Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (previously the Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park) near Scott ...

The Rattlesnake Basket Rockshelter (3NW79) is located in southeastern Newton County near the top of the Boston...

Rock art is a term archaeologists use to describe images on rock surfaces created both prehistorically and his...