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

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

The Caddo Indian Memorial is located on the site of a Native American burial ground on the outskirts of Norman...

Carden Bottom (also known as Carden’s Bottom or Carden Bottoms) is a rich alluvial flood plain in northeaste...

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

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

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

Fossils and sedimentary rock layers contribute to current knowledge of the animals that lived in Arkansas in t...

Fossils are the remains of animals and plants that have been preserved in the earth’s crust. They can consis...

Hampson Archeological Museum State Park houses and exhibits the archaeological collection from a Mississippian...

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

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...

The Nashville sauropod trackway, which may be the largest dinosaur trackway in the world, was located near Nas...

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...

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 culture was a people who built religious centers with a formal arrangement of earthen platforms or ...

The pre-European history of Arkansas begins 13,500 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch, when cold weather preva...

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...

Salt making was an enterprise carried out in Arkansas for more than 600 years, first by the prehistoric Native...

The Sherman Mound is one of the larger and better-preserved Native American earthworks in the Central Mississi...

The Sloan site is located on an ice age sand dune in the lowlands of Greene County. People of the Dalton cultu...

The 100-acre Toltec Mounds site in Lonoke County between Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke Counties) and Keo (Lonoke C...