Archeological Field School Offered in June 2008
A field school researching Archaic period novaculite tool production will take place this summer near Hot Springs in southwest Arkansas. The course will be taught by Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt of our Henderson Research Station and is offered through both the Univerity of Arkansas and Henderson State University from June 2 through July 3, 2008. The course is intended for students looking for university credit and thinking about pursuing a career in archeology. Read here for more information.
The Arkansas Archeological Survey currently has an opening for a research station assistant. See below for details:
ATU Station Relocated to WRI
The Arkansas Archeological Survey Station at Arkansas Tech University has moved from Russellville to the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain. The new AAS-WRI station will work to support the education mission of the Winthrop Rockefeller campus (WRI-UAS) as well as continue normal Station operations.
Station quarters will be in the newly built Education Barn, constructed as part of a planned reconstructed 1930s farmstead. The new quarters will occupy parts of two floors, with a Lab, and a Curation Space for artifact collections and site data on the first floor, and an office for the Station Archeologist and a large multipurpose room for Station Assistants and administration on the second floor.
The new mailing address and telephone numbers will be posted shortly.
Artifacts Stolen from SAU Research Station
August 7, 2006 - The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Southern Arkansas University report the theft of 26 prehistoric Caddo Indian pottery vessels from the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Research Station collection at Southern Arkansas University. The pottery vessels are all from the Cedar Grove site located near the Red River in Lafayette County, Arkansas. The vessels belong to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and are federal property. Photographs and complete documentation of each pottery vessel exist so they will be very difficult to sell on the open market.
The vessels are from Indian graves subject to the provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a federal law. If the vessels were transported across state lines they will be subject to the federal Archeological Resource Protection Act. Hence, the thieves can be prosecuted under two separate federal laws as well as state law. For these reasons, the SAU Police Department is working with the El Dorado office of the FBI in the investigation.
For a list and photographs of the stolen pottery vessels, click the link below:
SAUCedarGroveMissingList_v4.pdf 
(2.7MB)
For more information call:
Thomas J. Green
Director
Arkansas Archeological Survey
2475 N. Hatch Ave.
Fayetteville, AR 72704
479-575-3556 or 479-442-0261
or
Jamie Brandon
Research Station Archeologist
Arkansas Archeological Survey
Southern Arkansas University
870-235-4229
Mystery Rock Art
These
two pieces of rock art were removed from a site or sites in the Arkansas/Oklahoma/Texas
region and are now in law enforcement custody. Does anyone recognize these
images? If you know where they were originally located, please contact
Todd Swain of the National Park Service at 760-413-8214.
Recent Archaeo-geophysical Investigations at Two Prehistoric Mound Sites in Arkansas
- Archaeogeophysical Investigations at the Late Mississippian Parkin Site in Arkansas
- Archaeogeophysics and Archaeology at Grandview Ranch (3HE40)
Fieldwork Highlights
Other ProjectsFitzgerald’s Station: A Stage Stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route
Remote sensing and excavations were conducted at Fitzgerald's Station in late 2004 and early 2005 as part of a master's thesis project for Terri Bruce. This important site contains one of the very few original buildings that still exist along the Butterfield stage route. Read about it here.Archaeogeophysics at Walker Cemetery
A remote sensing and mapping survey conducted at historic Walker Cemetery in Fayetteville.
The Greenbrier Site
Fieldwork conducted during the Arkansas Archeological Society 2000 Summer DigThe King Mastodon
Excavating the remains of a Mastodon near Bay, ArkansasThe Meador Site
A salvage excavation in Northeast ArkansasFayetteville Town Center
A salvage dig in downtown Fayetteville
