Sites & Artifacts

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Tree covered mound on river shore
Battle Mound Site
The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...
Group of arrow points on black background
Crenshaw Site
The Crenshaw Site was a large village and ceremonial center occupied from about AD 700 to 1400 along the Red R...
Overgrown field with trees in the background
Eaker Site
The Eaker Site is a large, prehistoric archaeological site located near Blytheville (Mississippi County) on la...
Pot shaped like a human head with ears and face and opening at top
Head Pots
Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...
Man at base of large tree covered mound in field
Indian Mounds
Indian Mounds were constructed by deliberately heaping soil, rock, or other materials (such as ash, shell, and...
White man at base of tree covered mound site in field
Menard-Hodges Site
Archaeological investigations at the Menard-Hodges site near Nady in Arkansas County since the late 1800s hav...
Round ceramic container with long spout sticking up on left side painted with swirling pattern behind glass display above label text "Quapaw Phillips County
Native American Pottery
Indians in Arkansas began making pottery containers about 2,500 years ago, during the Woodland Period, and the...
Pot shaped like a human head with ears and face and opening at top
Nodena Site
The Nodena Site in Mississippi County is an archaeological site representing Native American life in Arkansas ...
Wooden sign with Native American man on it with a brick building with a wooden roof behind it and flag pole
Parkin Archeological State Park
Parkin Archeological State Park in northeast Arkansas preserves and interprets a Mississippian-period Native A...
Native American pottery on display behind glass with sign saying "The Pacaha Province: Casqui's Enemies"
Parkin Historic Site
The Parkin Historic Site is a seventeen-acre Native American village site along the St. Francis River in Cross...
Bow section of wooden canoe in glass display case
Peeler Bend Canoe
The Peeler Bend Canoe is an extremely rare and well-preserved relic of Arkansas’s Native American heritage. ...
beaver painting in red on cave wall
Petit Jean Rock Art Sites
Petit Jean Mountain in west-central Arkansas boasts a large concentration of ancient Native American rock art ...
many white people stand around and in square shaped holes in the ground with white marquee tents providing some shade
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...
beaver painting in red on cave wall
Native American Rock Art
Rock art is a term archaeologists use to describe images on rock surfaces created both prehistorically and his...
Rock arrowheads and stone tools laid out together on table with small ruler
Sloan Site
The Sloan site is located on an ice age sand dune in the lowlands of Greene County. People of the Dalton cultu...
Display case with stone tools and interpretation panels for each group
Toltec Mounds Site
The 100-acre Toltec Mounds site in Lonoke County between Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke Counties) and Keo (Lonoke C...