Sites & Artifacts

Battle Mound Site
The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...
Crenshaw Site
The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...
Eaker Site
The Eaker Site is a large, prehistoric archaeological site located near Blytheville (Mississippi County) on la...
Head Pots
Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Sloan Site
The Sloan site is located on an ice age sand dune in the lowlands of Greene County. People of the Dalton cultu...
Toltec Mounds Site
The 100-acre Toltec Mounds site in Lonoke County between Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke Counties) and Keo (Lonoke C...