news archives
Summer 2008
06/13-29/08: I'll be at the Arkansas Archeological Society "Summer Dig" at Jones Mill near Malvern, Arkansas
05/22/08-06/09/08: I'll helping out at the University of Florida field school at Kingsley Plantation and the Mission San Juan del Puerto.
05/19/08: I'll be in Little Rock for a conference on "Holes in Arkansas Civil War History" as a part of my charge as a member of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
Spring 2008
04/05/07: I'll be at the Stagecoach Festival at Chidester, Arkansas.
03/27-30/07: I'll be at the Arkansas Historical Association Meetings in Eureka Springs, AR.
03/26/08:I'll be in Little Rock for a meeting of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
03/17-21/08: I'll be conducting excavations at the Royston House in Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County M-F (weather permitting). Come by and see us, or...better yet...join us. Call or e-mail us if you would like to help out.
03/15/07: I'll be at the Jonquil Festival at Washington, Arkansas.
03/03/07: I'll be speaking at the Jones Center for Families in Springdale, AR, Tuesday night, 7:00pm in connection with Arkansas Archeology Month. My talk is entitled "Why Do We Dig Up the Recent Past? Historical Archaeology in the Arkansas Ozarks."
02/27/08: I'll be in Little Rock for a meeting of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
02/21/08: I'll at hosting a film screening of Slavery's Buried Past at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain near Morrilton, 7:00pm
02/16/08: I'll be at the East Texas Archeological Meetings in Tyler, Texas.
01/30/08: I'll be in Little Rock for a meeting of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
01/24/08-01/29/08: I'll be ouot with Duncan McKinnon conducting a remote sensing servey of Battle Moundan important Caddo mounds site in the Red River valley.
01/19/08: I'll at Boy Scout WIntercamp at Camp DeSoto helping some scouts with their archaeology merit badges.
01/15-16/08: I'll in Little Rock interveiwing a candidiate for the Toltec Research Station Archeologist postion.
01/09-13/08: I'll in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the Society for Historical Archaeology meetings.
Fall 2007
12/17-21/07: I'll be writing, working with students on projects and mapping cemeteries in and around Magnolia.
12/12/07: I'll be in Little Rock for a meeting of the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
12/05-11/07: I'll be working with Carl Carlson-Drexler researching and mapping Civil War period sites in Hempstead County.
11/29/07-12/02/07: I'll be in Fayetteville showing a perspective UofA graduate student around.
11/26-28/07: We'll be excavating in the back of the Royston House at Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
11/16-18/07:Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the last of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
11/12-16/07: We'll be excavating in the back of the Royston House at Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
11/09-11/07: Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the second of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
11/01-04/07: I'll be at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Knoxville, TN.
10/26-28/07: Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the first of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County.Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
10/22-26/07: John Samuelson and crew will be conducting a remote sensing survey of Crenshaw Mounds in Miller County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out.
10/17/07: I'll be in Shreveport to give a talk to the Northwest Louisiana Archaeological Society. I will be talking about my work at St. Anne's Convent and School in Fort Smith because it is similar to some work they are doing at Mansfield Female College in Mansfield, LA (1857 to 1930).
09/28-30/07: I'll be at the annual Arkansas Archeological Society meeting in Mountain View, Arkansas.
08/23-27/07: I'll be hosting William and Mary Ph.D. student Carl Carlson-Drexler who will be touring Civil War-related sites in southwestern Arkansas.
Summer 2007
08/18/07: I'll be in Little Rock for the annual Civil War Seminar at the Old State House Museum.
08/13/07: I'll be visiting the site of the Japanese internment camp at Jerome (as well as visiting the Spatial Analysis Lab at UAM) with Edward Tennant (UF Ph.D. candidate). We're checking out the possibility of doing a joint UofA/UF field school there.
08/11/07: I'll be in Solgohatchia, Arkansas (north of Morrilton) for the Bold Pilgrim Cemetery workshop.
08/07-28/07: Every Tuesday night in August from 6-8 pm I'll be teaching a public course on Arkansas Archeology as a part of South Arkansas Community College's Community Education Program in El Dorado, Arkansas.
07/28/07: I'll partipating in the Red River Region Heritage Conference at Historic Washington State Park.
07/09-07/15: I'll be in Fayetteville, Arkansas working on some writing projects at the Coordinating Office of the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
07/02-06/07: I'll be in Tennessee visiting family.
06/09-24/07: The Arkansas Archeological Society Training Program (AKA "summer dig") will be held at the Jones Mill site (3HS28) near Malvern, AR. Look here for more details and registration information. I will be teaching the Lab Methods Seminar in the first session and digging in the second session.
05/14-25/07: I will be on Fort George Island in Florida helping out with the University of Florida Field School in Historical Archeology.
Spring 2007
05/10/07:I will be giving a gallery talk at the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources in conjunction with an exhibit entitled “Of Machines and Men” 7:00 pm, Thursday night.
05/04 & 05/07: I will be giving lectures on African-American archeology in Arkansas at the Preservation of African-American Cemeteries conference (Friday) and the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock (Saturday, sponsored by the Mosaic Templar Cultural Center and associated with Arkansas Heritage Month).
04/25-29/07: I will be in Austin, Texas for the Society for American Archeology meetings.
04/11/07: I will be speaking to folks at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas as a part of their lunch speaker series.
03/15-18/07: We will be hosting the Caddo Conference in Magnolia, Arkansas at SAU. Look here for more details.
03/06/07: I will be giving a lecture at Historic Washington State Park "Historical Archeology in Arkansas: Why Do we Dig Up the Recent Past?"--6:00pm at the 1914 Washington School House.
03/01/07: March is Archeology Month in Arkansas!!!!
02/21/07: I'll in Little Rock giving a talk to the Toltec Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society. 6:30 at the Fletcher Library near UALR. The topic will be: a workshop on identifying glass bottles.
02/13/07: I will be speaking to the first meeting of the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society this spring. We will meet at 7:00pm in room 104 of the Bruce Center on the SAU Campus.
02/16/07: I'll be documenting a well at Historic Washington State Park and looking at an endangered cemetery in Washington County.02/10/07: The East Texas Archeological Conference will be held at the University of Texas at Tyler Campus in Tyler, Texas. For more information contact Mark Walters.
02/09/07: I'll be vsisting Caddo-period sites in my area with U of A graduate student Duncan McKinnon.
02/02/07: I'll be up near Hot Springs helping Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt map the Jones Mill Site (3HS28)--an Archaic-period site connected to the nearby novaculite quarries.
01/29/07: AAS-SAU staff will be helping conduct geophysical surveys on the Mounds Plantation site in northwest Louisiana all this week.
01/20/07: Anthony Clay Newton and I will be helping the Boy Scouts at Wintercamp 2007 at Camp DeSoto get their archeology merit badges.
01/19/07: I'll begin documenting 4 cemeteries in Nevada and Columbia Counties...I'll be doing this every Friday until they are completed. Contact me if you are interested in helping out. 01/17/07: First day of classes at Southern Arkansas University.
01/09-14/07: I'll be in Williamsburg, VA for the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Fall 2006
12/21/06: Happy Holidays! I'll be in Magnolia, AR for most of the holidays...with TJV! I hope to settle in, move furniture and paint.12/4-5/06: I'll be at the Winthrop Rockefeller Center on Petit Jean Mountain for the annual Arkansas Archeological Survey Staff meeting.
12/2-3/06: The East Texas Caddo Research Group meets in Nacogdoches, Texas.
11/22-26/06: I'll be in Camden, Tennessee visiting family for Thanksgiving. 11/21/06: I'll be giving an interview on the Timber Talk radio show. You can hear it on 100.5 FM KZHE in Magnolia, Arkansas, Tuesday from 9:30-10:00 am
11/13/06: I'll be in Fayetteville, AR for Jami Lockhart's dissertation defense.
11/08-12/06: I'll be at the Southeastern Archeology Conference (SEAC) in Little Rock, Arkansas.
11/06-07/06: I'll be in Fayetteville, AR casting my vote and visiting my wife.
11/04-05/06: I'll be at the "Civil War Weekend" at Old Washington State Historic Park.
11/02/06: I'll be giving a talk on my work at Van Winkle's Mill to the Tunican Chapter of the AAS in Monticello, Arkansas.
10/27-29/06: The eighth meeting of the South Central Historical Archaeology Conference will be held in Memphis, TN.
10/14/06: I'll be at the Texarkana Archaeology & Heritage Fair at Spring Lake Park, Park Road, Texarkana, Texas, Saturday, October 14, 2006, 10 am to 4 pm.
10/12/06: I'll be in northern Columbia and southern Nevada Counties consulting on African-American Cemetery Restoration and Protection grants.
10/04/06: Want to keep up with what we're up to at the SAU Research Station? Join the newly created Southwest Arkansas Archeology Listerv [SWAR_ARCH] and get updates about upcoming meetings, volunteer opportunities and other area events.
09/22-24/06: The annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society in Little Rock, AR.
09/18-19/06: I'll be in Fayetteville for a meeting with Arkansas State Parks about interpretation projects at Van Winkle's Mill.
09/14/06: The Southern Arkansas University Research Station of the Arkansas Archeological Survey has its website up on the SAU server. You can find us at: http://www.saumag.edu/archeology/
08/25/06: Congratulations to Alicia Valentino the FIRST Ph.D. in anthropology produced by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
08/24/06: I'm off to Fayetteville to attend Alicia Valentino's dissertation defense (the first anthropology Ph.D. from the UofA--and it's on our Van Winkle's Mill project)...I'll be back on Sunday.
Summer 2006
08/06/06: Here's a PDF of the article in the South Arkansas Sunday News on the SAU theft.
08/05/06: Here's a PDF of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette article that came out today on the SAU theft.
08/04/06: THEFT ALERT!!! There has been a major theft at the AAS-SAU Station...26 Caddo pots from the Cedar Grove site have been stolen. Click here for details. Press release to come...
07/31/06: I have arrived in Magnolia, Arkansas. I'm currently unpacking books and getting to work as quickly as possible.
07/30/06: After several extended visits, I'll make the permanent move to Magnolia, Arkansas.
07/05/06: I'm back in Northwest Arkansas tying up loose ends on various projects and packing.
07/01/06: I have started a new (second) blog "The Ag Report: Letters from Magnolia" which will cover my move to SAU, interesting facts about the history and culture of southwestern Arkansas and my quest for a "new mule order." I will not abandon my "Farther Along" blog, however...I will continue to cover general anthropological and archaeological topics there as well.
06/26-30/06: I'll be in Magnolia, Arkansas, spearheading my move in July. This will allow me and my predecessor (the retiring Dr. Frank Schambach)to have some overlap time at the SAU Research Station. You can still get in touch with me via e-mail and my cell.
06/12-19/06: I'll be excavating with James Davidson and the University of Florida archaeological fieldschool at Kingsley Plantation near Jacksonville, FL. This is a return to the site of the very first scientific excavation of a slave cabin (1968) dug to explicitly address issues of slavery and African-American life. This fieldwork will establish the base line for a multi-year research driven investigation of Kingsley Plantation, in addition to other plantations and African Diasporic sites within the region.
06/06/06: TJV's Birthday!
05/13-25/06: TJ & I will be visiting our folks in TN & VA...I haven't been home in more than a year, so it's long overdue! I will not get cell phone reception out on Harmon's Creek, but I WILL be checking my e-mail.
Spring 2006
05/18/06: Ark-Homa Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society meeting: Mary Z. Brennan will speak about her work on family, kinship, landscape, memory and historical archaeology on Moccasin Creek. 7:00 p.m. in the Echols Conference Center on the UA-Fort Smith Campus. Contact Tim Mulvihill at 479-788-7812 or tmulvihi@uafortsmith.edu for further information.
05/05-07/06: TJ & I will be in southwestern Arkansas this weekend scouting out the area.
04/28/06. I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Southern Arkansas University and the Arkansas Archeological Survey's Research Station Archeologist in Magnolia, Arkansas...That's right, I'm going to be a Mulerider! I'll be starting on July 1, 2006... so watch for e-mail and address changes
04/26-30/06: The 71st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Unfortunately, I can't go this year as I've already attended my share of conferences for the season).
04/25/06: KoKoCi Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society meeting: Dr. Robert Mainfort & Mary Kwas will present "On the Viking Trail: A Trek Through Newfoundland and Labrador to L'anse aux Meadows," 7:00pm at the AAS Building (2475 N. Hatch Ave...off Garland across from Agri Park) call 575-3556 for more information or directions.
04/20/06: Ark-Homa Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society meeting: Lexie Rue-Harris will speak about Pompeii. 7:00 p.m. in the Echols Conference Center on the UA-Fort Smith Campus. Contact Tim Mulvihill at 479-788-7812 or tmulvihi@uafortsmith.edu for further information.
04/07/06: Old State House Museum, Little Rock, AR: The exhibit "Sam Dellinger & the Raiders of the Lost Arkansas" honors the man who was Arkansas' first archeologist, first anthropologist, and the father of the University of Arkansas Museum. Exhibit opening & reception 6:00 pm. Check out this "over the top" poster for the exhibit.
04/06-08/06: Arkansas Historical Association Meetings, at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, AR. Contact: Dr. Brooks Blevins for more details.
04/06/06: Stigler Lecture: Terry Jones (California Polytechnic State University) and Kathryn Klar (Celtic Studies Program, UC-Berkeley), "Polynesian Connections to California before Columbus." Old Main Giffels Auditorium, 6:30 pm.
04/05/06: Hank Klibanoff, managing editor of news for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation, will deliver the 2006 Roy Reed Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, in the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House at Razorback Road and Maple Street. The lecture is free and open to the public.
04/03/06: The third and final session of my Arkansas Archeology course for the general public begins Monday night at 5:30pm. You can still enroll at NWACC's College at the Crossings or contact me for more details.
03/30/06: James Carville and Mary Matalin, The most famous couple in political consulting, will talk about their experiences and their beliefs in "All's Fair: Love, War and Politics," at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 30, at Barnhill Arena. Click here for the full press release.
03/29/06: I'll be out in the field visiting the Spradley Site (3NW101, an important site in Newton County dug in the late 1960s) in order to obtain some overview photographs for a AAS publication. I'll be going with Jerry Hilliard & Bob Mainfort....contact me if you'd like to come along.
03/28/06: The March meeting of the Kokoci Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will feature Kathy Cande (AAS-SRP) who will present "Coffee Grinders and Dogtrots: Results of Initial Test Excavations at Old Davidsonville." 7:00 p.m. at the Washington County Extension Office.
03/26/06: Check out a recent article in the Fort Smith Times-Record about our Sisters of Mercy/Zachary Taylor work (in PDF format). It was published as a blurb on our public talk in Fort Smith.
03/23-26/06: I'll be out of town from Thurs. until late Sunday this week. If you need to get in touch with me you can call my cell phone: (479)879-6229.
03/17/06: JCB & TJV's 11th wedding anniversary!
03/16/06: I (along with Jerry Hilliard) will be giving a talk on our work at the Zachary Taylor/Sisters of Mercy site to the Ark-Homa Chapter of the AAS in Fort Smith on Thurs. night. Echols Conference Center, Fort Smith (479-754-2864), 7:00pm.
03/13-14/05: I'll be out of pocket AGAIN Monday & Tuesday. I'll be back by Wednesday, however.
03/09/06: Stigler Lecture: David B. Madsen (Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory & Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute) will give a talk entitled "Northeast Asia Views on Peopling of the Americas." Old Main Giffels Auditorium, 6:30 pm.
03/08-11/06: I'll be out of town Wednesday through Saturday. If you need to get in touch with me, call my cell phone at 479-879-6229.
03/07/06: The second (March) session of my Arkansas Archeology course for the general public HAS BEEN CANCELED due to my busy March schedule (sorry)... You can still, however, sign up for the third (April) session at NWACC's College at the Crossings or contact me for more details.
03/07/06: The second session of my Arkansas Archeology course for the general public begins Tuesday, March 7th at 8:30 am. Sign up at NWACC's College at the Crossings or contact me for more details.
03/04/06: Jerry Hilliard & myself will be conducting an "Artifact Identification Day" in conjunction with Arkansas Archeology Month at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Arkansas on Sat. March 4th at 12:00 noon. Come see us & bring your prehistoric and historic artifacts!
02/26-28/06: I'll be out of town Sun. through Wed. If you need to get in touch with me, call my cell: 479-879-6229.
02/28/06: Dr. Jesse Casana of the UA Department of Anthropology & the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies will give a talk entitled "Archaeological Investigations at Tell Qarqur: An Ancient City in the Orontes River Valley, Western Syria" to the Ko-Ko-Ci Chapter Arkansas Archeological Society Tuesday, February 28 7:00 p.m. at the Washington County Agriculture Extension Office, 2536 N. McConnell (NW of Arkansas Archeological Survey Building). Call 575-3556 for more information or directions.
02/26/06: Billy D. Higgins appears on Sunday, February 26 , at 2:00 pm to discuss his book, A Stranger and a Sojourner: Peter Caulder, Free Black Frontiersman in Antebellum Arkansas. The talk, in the Fayetteville Public Library Walker Meeting Room, will be followed by a book signing and reception. Call 571-2222 or read the full press release for information.
02/23/06: Come say "Good-bye & Good Luck" to Greg Vogel & Michelle Berg Vogel who are relocating to Kampsville, IL. The West Mountain Brewery on the square, Friday night.
02/22-23/06: I'll be out of pocket again this Wed. & Thurs. I'll be back in town on Friday.
02/20/06: NWACC is CLOSED today (Mon.) due to inclement weather. NO CLASS TODAY.
02/14-17/06: I'll be out of town much of this week & may not be able to check my e-mail regularly...so call me on my cell (479)879-6229 if you need to get in touch.
02/10/06: Kathy Cande (AAS-SRP) will give an Anthropology Colloquium Friday, February 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Old Main 329. She will be talking about her recent work at Old Davidsonville State Park.
02/06/06: The first session of my Arkansas Archeology course for the general public begins Monday, February 6th. Sign up at NWACC's College at the Crossings or contact me for more details.
01/27/06: Check out the new web site for our Sisters of Mercy & Zachary Taylor project in Fort Smith....Let me know what you think of the design & content!
01/11/06-01/15/06: I'll be at the 2006 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Sacramento, CA. I'll be presenting two papers--one in the "The Political Economy of Freedom" symposium & one in a symposium on historical archaeology in Northwest Arkansas (co-authored with Jerry Hilliard).
Fall 2005
12/14/05: Happy Holidays to everyone!!! I had a great semester!! See you next year...
12/15/05: George Sabo & myself will be taking some students to the Arkoma (Ft. Smith) Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society meeting Thurs. night. Meeting starts at 7:00pm in the Echols Conference Center, and we'll be leaving from the AAS at 4:30pm (e-mail me if you would like to go). Meeks Etchieson will speak on "A Trip through Peru and Bolivia". For more details, go here.
12/13/05: Presentation & holiday reception entitled "The Arkansas Archeological Survey: Approaching 40 Years Old-What Does the Future Look Like?" presented by Dr. Thomas Green Director, Arkansas Archeological Survey, 7:00pm at the AAS Building (2475 N. Hatch Ave...off Garland across from Agri Park) call 575-3556 for more information or directions.
12/09/05: A Used Book Sale to raise money for Arkansas Archeology Month will be held on Friday, December 9, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Arkansas Archeological Survey office. Call Hester Davis at 575-3556 for more information.
12/02/05-12/04/05: I'm off to the 2005 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.--I'm presenting a paper on Saturday as a part of the "Dialogues in Context: Perspectives on Applied Work in African Diaspora Archaeology" symposium.
12/01/05: Stigler Lecture, Susan E. Alcock (John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics, Department of Classical Studies, The University of Michigan), "Roman Landscape Archaeology." Old Main Giffels Auditorium, 6:30 pm.
11/22/05: Angelina Payne & Snow L. Winters (CAST)will give a talk to the Arkansas Archeological Society entitled "Archaeological Laser Scanning in Bolivia and Peru: New Technologies for the Ancient World," AND Jason T. Herrman & Eileen G. Ernenwein (ENDY Program), "Near-surface Geophysical Investigations at Tiwanaku," Washington County Extension Office (NW of Arkansas Archeological Survey Building), 7:00 pm.
1/05/05: Party celebrating Greg Vogel receiving his Ph.D. in the Envirnomental Dynamics Program. Randy Guendling's residence, 4:00pm-?:??. Please bring a dish for the potluck, chair, and your preferred drink.
11/04/05: Anthropology Colloquium, David Chaudoir: "Social Terrains of Work in Qatar's Luxury Hotels," & Hope Amason: "With a Rebel Yell: Southern Symbolism and Women's Identities," Old Main 329 4:30.
10/29/05-11/05/05: Mary Brennan, the US Forest Service Passport-In-Time (PIT) program and the River Valley Chapter of the AAS will be conducting excavations at Page Family Sites along Moccasin Creek, Pope County, Arkansas. For more information, please contact Mary at mzbrennan@fs.fed.us or (479)754-2864.
10/27/05: Stigler Lecture--Dr. Tony James Wilkinson (Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Emeritus, University of Chicago) will talk about "Mideast Landscape Archaeology." Old Main Giffels Auditorium, 6:30pm.
10/25/05: Thomas Paradise (UofA Geography)will give a talk to the Arkansas Archeological Society entitled "Twenty Years of Research in the Valley of the Crescent Moon: Architectural Deterioration Research in Petra, Jordan," Washington County Extension Office (NW of Arkansas Archeological Survey Building), 7:00 pm.
10/03-07/05: Fieldwork at Van Winkle's Mill. Alicia Valentino (UofA graduate student) will be directing excavations in the mill complex area. Contact Alicia or me if you'd like to help out.
10/05/05: Peter Ungar, UA professor of anthropology, will present a lecture on "Reconstructing the Diets of Human Ancestors" at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Plant Sciences building auditorium, room 009.
09/30/05: Anthropology Colloquium, Christopher Goodmaster and Kenneth L. Kvamme, will present "Double Ditch Junior and Senior: Archeo-geophysics in the Northern Plains," Old Main 329,4:30 pm.
09/29/05: Dr. George Sabo, Jerry Hilliard & myself will be in Berryville, AR looking at the remains of a mid-nineteenth century wooden bridge that has been uncovered by erosion on Osage Creek.
09/28/05: Alicia Valentino (UofA Grad. student & my colleague on the Van Winkle's Mill project) will be defending her dissertation prospectus Wed. at 12:00 noon at the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
09/27/05: The first fall meeting of the Kokoci Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will be held on September 27, beginning at 7:00 p.m., at the AAS. The guest speaker will be Deborah Sabo, who will discuss Archeology and the Sense of History in J.R .R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
09/22/05: The Arkansas Archeological Society meetings scheduled for 09/23-25/05 in Magnolia, Arkansas HAVE BEEN CANCELED due to the potential of severe weather related to Hurricane Rita.
09/23-25/05: The annual Arkansas Archeological Society meetings in Magnolia, AR. 09/20/05: I'll be out with Dr. Robert Lafferty (Mid-Continental Research Associates, Inc.) & Alicia Valentino (UofA Grad. Student) looking at a partially standing ninteenth-century sawmill near Siloam Springs, Oklahoma.
09/12/05: For the second time, the South Central Historical Archeology Conference must be postponed due to a hurricane. In 2004 it was Ivan, this time it's Katrina. So, SCHAC 8 will NOT be held at Memphis 16-18 September. The conference will be rescheduled to some unknown date, but it will be in Memphis whenever it's held. Keep checking for updates at the SCHAC web site, http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/archinfo/schac.html.
09/16-18/05: South Central Historical Archeology Conference meets in Memphis, TN.
09/12/05: Dr. Ruth Roded will offer a lecture on "Projecting Female Muslim Role Models: Gender in Arab Films on the Life of the Prophet Muhammad" at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, in Giffels Auditorium.
09/10/05: Grand opening of the "Van Winkle Legacy" exhibit at the Rogers Historical Museum. All day Saturday starting at 9:00am.09/02/05: Anthropology Colloquium: "Death on the Nile" Trey Batey & Melissa Zabecki, Friday, September 2, 4:30-5:30pm Old Main 329. Happy hour to follow.
08/31/05: Anthropology Department mixer at Uncle Gaylords (315 W Mountain) 5:00pm
08/25/05: George Sabo & I are taking a van-load of students to the monthly
meeting of the Fort Smith chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society.
Guest speaker this month is Leslie
C. Stewart-Abernathy (ATU Research Station Archaeologist). Meeting
starts at 7:00pm, we're leaving the Old Main turn-around at 5:00pm. If
you'd like to tag along contact me ASAP.
08/22/05: First day of Fall 2005 classes.
Summer 2005
08/15/05: Greg Vogel (UofA ENDY program) will defend his Ph.D. dissertation on prehistoric landscapes in the Arkansas River Valley in Ozark Hall, room 103 at 1:30pm on Monday, August 15th. Come on along and support Greg!
07/29/05: I'll be spending the remainder of the summer working on fall courses (ANTH 4803 & ANTH 1023H), a monograph on Van Winkle's Mill, and a couple grant applications. . . Have a nice remainder of the summer.
07/27/05: I'll be visiting the University of Oklahoma archeological field school at Paris Mounds in eastern Oklahoma (Tom Pluckhahn, instructor). I'll be going with George Sabo & company. E-mail me if you'd like to come along!
07/21/05:I'm moving my office! This week I'll be in the process of moving my office in the University Museum (on the UofA agricultural campus next door to the Arkansas Archeological Survey). I'm moving from BIOR 118 to BIOR 125 (BIOR is the Biomass Bldg. attached to the AAS Bldg.).
07/18/05: ENDY graduate student Eric Proebsting will be conducting field work at the Lewis (a.k.a. McGarrah-Reed) farmstead Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (July 18-20). Myself & other H.A.W.G. (Historical Archaeology Working Group)members will be out giving him a hand. Lewis' 1830s farmstead was among the first settled in northwest Arkansas, and is located about 20 minutes from Fayetteville, just south of Elkins. E-mail Eric or me for more details.
07/01/05: My folks are up to visit this weekend.
06/30/05: The missing Schmoo has surfaced in Florida! Check it out here.
06/04/05: Dedication of the Historic Van Winkle's Mill Trail at Hobbs State Park & Managment Area: Saturday June 4, 2005. 10:00 a.m. til noon.
05/23/05: The U of A archeological fieldschool at Van Winkle's Mill begins Monday May 23 and runs until July 1, 2005. More information about the project can be found here.
05/18/05: UofA graduate student Bobby Braly will defend his MA thesis on non-ceramic grave inclusions in the Late Prehistoric period of northeastern Arkansas on Wed. May, 18th at 3:00pm at the conference room of the Arkansas Archeological Survey.
05/17/05: I'm off to visit family in West Tennessee. I'll be back in Northwest Arkansas Monday, May the 23rd.
Spring 2005
05/10/05: I'll be in Bentonville looking at historical rock art from the Civil War period with George Sabo, Jerry Hilliard, Leslie Walker, Carl Drexler, Jim Walton & others Tues. afternoon on the 10th of May.
05/05/05: I'll be helping Jerry Hilliard (AAS Station Asst.) map and conduct a geophysical survey at an antebellum cemetery and house in Washington County, Thurs. May 5th. Contact me or Jerry if you would like to help out.
05/05/05: Susan Alcock's Stigler Lecture, entitled "Roman Archaeology and Landscapes" and originally scheduled for Thurs. May, 5th, has been postponed. Check this page for updates.
05/04/05: Susan Alcock will be visiting the UofA as the last of this year's Stigler Lectures. Check out her talk titled "Roman Archaeology and Landscapes" Thurs. May, 4th at 7:00pm in Giffles Auditorium.
04/29/05: Graduate student Carl Drexler is getting a group of folks together to do some remote sensing and a metal detector survey of potential locations of Camp Benjamin (Civil War camp) in Cross Hollows. Scheduling is dependant on landowner approval. Contact Carl or me if you are interested in helping out and/or getting some geophysical or mapping experience. Check this page for updates & scheduling.
04/28/05: Eric Proebsting & myself will be excavating at the Hugh Lewis farmstead
(1830-1930s) Thurs.-Sat. (04/28-04/30). Contact
Eric for more details.
04/23/05: This Sat.'s (4/23) mapping of Camp Frazier, a 1930s CCC Camp in Franklin County, Arkansas, has had to be rescheduled. I'll post the date when we confirm it. Contact me or Mary Brennan if you would like to help out.
04/23/05: I'll be helping Mary Brennan of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest map Camp Frazier, a 1930s CCC Camp in Franklin County, Arkansas. It's tentatively scheduled for Saturday April 23rd. Contact me or Mary Brennan if you would like to help out.
04/07/05: Henry Glassie, an important folklorist who has had a big impact on historical archaeology, will be talking on campus Thurs. April 7th at 7:00pm in the Reynolds Center auditorium. Dr. Glassie has been brought in by the Center for Arkansas & Regional Studies and the School of Architecture and the topic of his lecture will be "The Architecture of American Regionalism."
04/05/05: Due to an unusual chain of events the African-American Archaeology Listserv was inadvertently deleted from Yahoo groups this past weekend. We have reestablished the list here, but unfortunately, the hundreds of former members of this listserv will each have to take a moment to rejoin. Please do so at your earliest convenience!
04/04/05: I'll be helping Jerry Hilliard (UAF Station of the AAS) map a historic farmstead complex on Richland Creek in Washington County Monday April 4th and probably Wed. April 6th. We'll be mapping and documenting an 1857 log house and a mill complex. Contact me if you would like to help out.
04/01/05: Sign up for the U
of A archeological fieldschool at Van Winkle's Mill this month. The
deadline is April 22nd, the field school is May 23-July 1, 2005. More
information about the project can be found here.
03/28/05: James A. Brown, a noted archaeologist who has a lot to say about the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, mortuary archaeology and quantitative archaeology will be visiting the U of A as a part of this year's Stigler Lectureship. Come have lunch or diner with Dr. Brown and attend his public talk at 7:30pm Monday night (3/28/05) in Giffles Auditorium in Old Main. Here's what MSU's E-Museum has to say about Dr. Brown.
03/22/05: Ko-Ko-Ci Chapter Arkansas Archeological Society will have a lecture Tuesday, March 22 7:00 p.m. "Cherokee on the Water: From the Homeland Through Arkansas to Oklahoma, 1830-1840" presented by Dr. Leslie "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy. Special Location: Washington County Agriculture Extension Office 2536 N. McConnell (NW of Archeological Survey building) call 575-3556 for more information or directions.
03/19/05: Me & Jerry Hilliard will be conducting an "Artifact Identification Day" in conjunction with Arkansas Archeology Month at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Arkansas on March 19th at 12:00 noon. Come see us & bring your prehistoric and historic artifacts!
03/17/05: Caddo Conference in Norman, OK. The Caddo Conference will be held March 17-19 at the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman. For information on the conference, check the web site, or contact Lois Albert.
03/14/05: We will be conducting excavations in Fort Smith, Arkansas on the site of the Zachary Taylor House and the Sisters of Mercy Convent March 14-18th. Contact me or Jerry Hilliard if you would like to volunteer.
03/08/05:The Arkansas Archeological Society will hold a lab night at the Arkansas Archaeological Survey Tues. March 8th, 7:00pm. Come help catalog the Figley & Chowning collections recently donated to the Survey. These collections are full of whole prehistoric ceramic vessels, projectile points and the like and offer a rare "hands on" learning opportunity for volunteers.
03/01/05: March is Arkansas Archeology Month!
02/24/05: In
conjunction with the UofA-Fort
Smith's celebration of American Heritage Week I will giving a brief
talk about our upcoming plans for excavations at the site of Zachary Taylor's
residence and the Sisters of Mercy convent in Fort Smith. It's scheduled
for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24 in the Reynolds Room of the Smith-Pendergraft
Campus Center on the Fort Smith campus,& will be followed by a
meeting of the new UofA-Fort Smith chapter of the Arkansas
Archaeology Society.
2/22/05:
Kathleen Cande of the AAS
Sponsored Research Program, will discuss "Old Davidsonville: Remains
From a 'Public House of Entertainment'" and will show some of the early
nineteenth-century artifacts recovered from the recent excavations at Old Davidsonville
State Park at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb 22, at a meeting of the Kokoci Chapter
of the
Arkansas Archeological
Society. The meeting will be at the Arkansas
Archeological Survey in Fayetteville.
02/18/04:
I'll be helping Terry Bruce finish her fieldwork by ground-truthing
her geophysical data at Fitzgerald
Station, a nineteenth-century inn and stagecoach stop on the Butterfield
Stage line in Springdale, Arkansas on Friday, Feb 18th. Contact
me or Terry if you would like
to help out.
02/14/04: Eric Proebsting has set up a section of his site on the University of Arkansas's server to keep folks posted about ongoing historical archaeology projects in the area. It's called the Historical Archaeology Research Group.
02/11/05: Join me & Carl Drexler (UofA Grad. student) as we survey Lindsey's Prairie, the site of a Civil War encampment near Siloam Springs, Arkansas on Friday February 11th. Contact me or Carl for more information.
02/04/05: I'll be helping Anthro Dept. grad. student Terry Bruce do some fieldwork at Fitzgerald Station, a nineteenth-century inn and stagecoach stop on the Butterfield Stage line in Springdale, Arkansas on Friday, Feb 4th most of the day. Contact me or Terry if you would like to help out.
01/26/05: I'll be assisting Jerry Hilliard with recording the Bean Cemetery, a turn-of-the-century African-American cemetery southeast of Fayetteville, on Wed., Jan. 26. Contact me if you are interested in helping out.
01/25/05: Dr. Malcolm Cleaveland of the UA tree-ring Laboratory, will discuss "Dendrochronology, Part 1: What You Have to Know Before You Can Date All Those Log Cabins and Prehistoric Ruins" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, at a meeting of the Kokoci Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society.
01/11/05: Back from the UK & getting ready to start the new semester.
Fall 2004
12/28/04: I'm off to London and York for this year's SHA meetings in York. I'll be back in the States 01/10/05.
12/03/04: I've gone to Autsin, Texas to attend UT's winter graduation.
12/01/04: Welcome to the new look for the web site. Let me know what you think.
10/01/04: I sucessfully defended my dissertation at the University of Texas!
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