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...

Antoine Barraque established the settlement called New Gascony, one of the earliest settlements in what is now...

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

Jean Bernard Bossu was a French captain and adventurer who explored the region of the Mississippi River while ...

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...

When the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Soto crossed the Mississippi River on June 28, 1541 (June 18 on the...

Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer who led an expedition into the southern United States. He and his sold...

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...

The French settlers’ experience in colonial Arkansas was vital to the history of the French presence in the ...

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...

Jean Laffite was a well-known smuggler and privateer (considered a pirate by some) who operated in the Gulf of...

Henri Joutel was a French soldier and explorer who served in the last expedition commanded by French explorer ...

The Koroa are one of many “small tribes” of the southeastern United States that are mentioned briefly in h...

Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe was a French officer, trader, and explorer. He was the first European explor...

In 1682, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle journeyed down the Mississippi River in sear...

Frenchman Pierre Laclède, credited with co-founding the city of St. Louis, Missouri, died aboard his trading ...