Arkansas Archeological Survey Receives NEH Grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities will support the Survey in a three-year study of American Indian art, ritual, and social interaction in the central Arkansas River Valley. Read about it here.
March is Archeology Month!
Arkansas Archeology Month is an annual celebration commemorating Arkansas’s cultural heritage as revealed through the archeology of both prehistoric and historic eras. Exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, tours, open houses, workshops, and other activities are scheduled throughout the state at museums, historic sites, state parks, libraries, and colleges. Check out the listing of archeology-related events for your area.
Arkansas College (1851-1852) Cistern Discovered at First Christian Church in Fayetteville
Virtual Hampson Museum Now Online
Researchers at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies have created hundreds of three-dimensional representations of artifacts from the collections at the Hampson Archeological State Park in Wilson, Ark. The result is the VIRTUAL HAMPSON MUSEUM. Dr. Robert Mainfort of the Arkansas Archeological Survey assisted with the project by providing the artifact descriptions. You can also view the University of Arkansas Research Frontiers video for background information on this project.
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
