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Project 799
Harcourt, James P. and Jack H. Stewart
1993 The NOARK Project: The Archeology of the NOARK Pipeline in the Arkansas River Valley, Northeast Arkansas and Portions of the Ozarks. Submitted to Arkansas Western Gas, Fayetteville. 226 pages.
Between August 9, 1991 and April 28, 1992, the Sponsored Research Program of the Arkansas Archeological Survey conducted a Phase I archeological survey of the southwestern and northeastern section of the proposed NOARK natural gas pipeline. The southwest section is located in the Arkansas River Valley and includes portions of Sebastian, Logan, Franklin, Johnson, and Pope counties. A total of 42 prehistoric or historic sites were visited or recorded during this project. The northeast section includes portions of Lawrence, Greene, Randolph, and Clay Counties in Arkansas and Dunklin County in Missouri. Twenty-three archeological sites were visited or recorded by this phase of the NOARK Project. Following the onset of construction, the 15 m (50 foot) corridor provided for the temporary construction easement was found to be too small in areas of rugged topography. Portions of the southwest and northeast sections were re-surveyed to increase the project area to 30 m (100 feet) or greater. The survey, often in areas cleared of vegetation in anticipation of pipe line trenching, resulted in the recording of five additional ephemeral lithic scatters in the Arkansas River Valley portion. No new sites were recorded in the northeast section. The Ozark section of the pipeline was awarded to SPEARS Inc., who completed a Phase I cultural resources inventory of middle portion of the NOARK pipeline. The Sponsored Research Program was subsequently contracted to survey a re-route and the additional temporary work areas in the Ozarks from near Scotland in Van Buren County to the White River in Stone County. A total of ten previously recorded sites were revisited and eleven new sites were recorded. One site, 3ST133, was later tested and found not to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The Northeast section in this collection also details the investigation of two pipe storage facilities, one near Bernice in Pope County and the second at Hoxie in Lawrence County. An early twentieth century railroad roundhouse was found at the Hoxie pipeyard and subsequently protected from damage caused by the NOARK construction. This volume is a compilation of the NOARK papers: a series of reports, addenda, and appendixes which were generated by the NOARK construction activities. The material has all been reviewed by the State Historic Preservation Office and is now presented in final form.
Project 800
Stewart, Jack H.
1993 Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed NOARK Gas Pipeline, Northeast Section, M.P. 202 to M.P. 258, Greene, Randolph, and Clay Counties, Arkansas.
Project 801
Harcourt, James P.
1993 A Cultural Resources Survey for the Proposed NOARK Gas Pipeline, Southwest Section M.P. 0 to M.P. 92, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Pope, and Conway Counties, Arkansas.
Project 817
Stewart, Jack H.
1993 Cultural Resources Survey of the NOARK Right-of-Way Expansion Areas, Ozark Section, M.P. 97.3 to M.P. 150, Van Buren and Stone Counties, Arkansas.
Project 827
Stewart, Jack H.
1993 Monitoring of 7 Sites between M.P. 97 and M.P. 150, NOARK Gas Pipeline, Van Buren and Stone Counties, Arkansas.
Project 582
Sabo, George III, Ann M. Early, Jerome C. Rose, Barbara A. Burnett, Louis Vogele, Jr., and James P. Harcourt
1988 Human Adaptation in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains: Final Report, Study Unit 1. Ozark-Arkansas-Ouachita (OAO, Archeological Research, Synthesis, and Overview Report). Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division, Dallas, Texas. 296 pages.
This overview provides a synthesis of the current state of knowledge concerning archeological resources in the Ozark Mountain-Arkansas River-Ouachita Mountain subregion of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division. Basic information on the environment of the study area is provided, followed by a review of the history of archeological research in the region. Prehistoric culture history is then reviewed according to the conventional framework of Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippi time periods. Historic Native American, European, and American settlement history is also considered. The history of bioarcheological research in the region is summarized, and a suggested framework for future bioarcheological investigations is provided. Bioarcheological data pertaining to the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippi periods are then reviewed and several interpretations are made. The overview concludes with a synthesis of the archeological and bioarcheological data and interpretations in terms of four prehistoric and five historic period adaptation types. The basic features of each adaptation are identified, along with specification of important data gaps and significant research questions.
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