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Archaeological Sites

Fayette Town Center
Structural remains identified during the Arkansas Archeological Society excavations reflect the historical chronology of a lot behind the south side of the square in Fayetteville. An 1830s deposit was recovered that appears to be the remains of one of the earliest houses built on the lot. Later, this house was rebuilt and subsequently destroyed in the 1920s

The Meador Site
Salvage excavations by the Arkansas Archeological Society revealed a Baytown period occupation, with pottery and other artifacts from the site dating between A.D. 300-800.  

Old Washington Collections
An antebellum urban farmstead and the 19th-century county seat of extreme southwestern Arkansas; an article in African American Archaeology Newsletter by Jamie C. Brandon, of the University of Texas at Austin, and Kathleen H. Cande, Arkansas Archaeological Survey.

Rocky Shoals
Excavation of a mid-19th century slave cabin in Arkansas, an article in African American Archaeology Newsletter.

Toltec Mounds State Park
One of the largest and most complex sites in the Lower Mississippi Valley, the site includes a animated flyover.

Van Winkle Mill and Anderson Slave Cemetery
A brief article on results of these historic sites in Arkansas, from Jamie C. Brandon and Jerry E. Hilliard of the African American Archaeology Newsletter.
     Return to Van Hollow report from the Arkansas Archeological Survey on 1999 excavations at a millworker residence at the Van Winkle saw mill.

University Programs

Arkansas Archeological Survey
Conducts research in Arkansas and Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Current Researchers

Marvin Kay
University of Arkansas,  human ecology and culture change; Middle Paleolithic sites and complexes of the Ukraine;  Middle Missouri subarea of the Northern Plains of North America and technofunctional studies of stone tools for Paleoindian sites.

W. Frederick Limp and Jerome C. Rose
Public Archaeology Forum: The Relocation of the Historical Cemetery at Cedar Grove; a Black cemetery in Arkansas, an abstract from the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Cultural History

Rock Art in Arkansas
From the University of Arkansas, papers and other information on rock art throughout the state.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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