Department of

Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Old Main 330, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-2508; Fax: (479) 575-6595
E-mail: chitt@uark.edu
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Robert C. Mainfort is Sponsored Research Adminsitrator and Series Editor with the Arkansas Archeological Survey. He teaches one formal course each year and is the co-director of the Survey's internship program with Dr. Thomas Green. Mainfort also serves on the faculty of the cross-disciplinary Ph.D. program in Environmental Dynamics (ENDY). During alternate years, he teaches "The Archaeology of Death" and "Archaeology of the Midsouth." Mainfort is the past editor of Southeastern Archaeology and serves on the Editorial Board of the Midcontiental Journal of Archaeology.

Theses & Dissertations Directed

Rita Fisher-Carroll, "Sociopolitical Organization at Upper Nodena (3MS4) from a Mortuary Perspective," MA Thesis, Summer 1997.

Thomas N. Gannon, "A Mortuary Analysis of the Vernon Paul Site (3CS25): Sociopolitical Organization at a Late Mississippian Site in Cross County, Arkansas," MA Thesis, Spring 1999.

James M. Davidson, "Freedman's Cemetery (1869-1907): A Chronological Reconstruction of an Excavated African-American Burial Ground, Dallas, Texas," MA Thesis, Summer 1999.

Jamie C. Brandon, "Death and the Parkin Phase: Mortuary Patterning in the Archaeological Data Recovered from the Durham Excavations in Northeastern Arkansas, 1932-1933," MA Thesis, Summer 1999.

Rita Fisher-Carroll, "Environmental Dynamics of Drought and its Impact on Sixteenth Century Indigenous Populations in the Central Mississippi Valley," Ph.D. Dissertation, Spring 2001.

Teresa L. Brown, "Ceramic Variability within the Parkin Phase: A Whole Vessel Metric Analysis." MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Fall 2002.

Maria M. Tavaszi, “Stylistic Variation in Ceramic Mortuary Vessels from Upper Nodena (3MS4) and Middle Nodena (3MS3). M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Spring 2004.

Bobby R. Braly, “An Examination of Non-Ceramic Grave Inclusions from Late Period Sites in Northeast Arkansas.” M.A. thesis, Summer 2005.

Jeremy Pye, “A Look Through the Viewing Glass: Social Status and Grave Analysis in a 19 th Century Kansas Cemetery.” M.A. thesis, Spring 2007.

Selected Recent Publications

2007

(with J. Matthew Compton and Kathleen H. Cande) 1973 excavations at the Upper Nodena site. Southeastern Archaeology 26(1):108-123.

2006

(co-editor and contributor, with James M. Davidson) Two Historic Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas. Research Series 62. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

(with Eric Cruciotti, Rita Fisher-Carroll, Charles H. McNutt, and David H. Dye) An experiment in ceramic description: Upper Nodena. Southeastern Archaeology 25(1):78-88.

(with Rita Fisher-Carroll and Daniel G. Gall) Sociotechnic celts from the Upper Nodena site, northeast Arkansas. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 31(2):323-343.

2005

(editor, with Darlene Applegate) Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Some comments on Woodland taxonomy in the middle Ohio valley. In Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley, edited by D. Applegate and R. C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 221-230. University of Alabama Press.

A k-means analysis of late period ceramic variation in the Central Mississippi Valley. Southeastern Archaeology 24(1):59-69.

2004

(with David Hally) Prehistory of the interior Southeast east of the Mississippi after 500 B.C. In Handbook of North American Indians—Southeast, edited by Raymond D. Fogelson, pp. 265-285. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.

(with Mary L. Kwas ) The Bat Creek stone revisited: A fraud exposed. American Antiquity 69(4):761-769.

(with Charles H. McNutt) Calibrated radiocarbon chronology for Pinson Mounds and Middle Woodland in the Midsouth. Southeastern Archaeology 23(1):12-24.