research projects

On line Articles & other ramblings.

Van Winkle's Mill (3BE413): a nineteenth-century sawmill community nestled in the Arkansas Ozarks. It has a lot to say about modernity and the Ozarks as a place in the cultural imagination.

Zachary Taylor & The Sisters of Mercy (3SB1088): Excavations at what may have been the Fort Smith home of Zachary Taylor (1841-1844) and the first convent of the Fort Smith Sisters of Mercy (1853-1875).

Juliette Street, Dallas, Texas (41DL413): ongoing work on an abandoned street in the middle of downtown Dallas, Texas. It was formerly the core of one of the earliest African-American communities in Dallas—Freedman's Town or Old North Dallas.

The Peel Mansion Icehouse (3BE587): the brief testing of a late-nineteenth century residential icehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Cane Hill (3WA1233): From Dalton to the Depression in Cane Hill, Arkansas. Excavations concentrating on a nineteenth-century structure and its detached kitchen.

The Parkin Phase: Attempts to reexamine a late prehistoric period phase through data other than frequencies of sherd type. Mortuary patterns from curated collections are examined as well as attempts to use GIS and other tools to understand landscape usage and change in the prehistoric past.

Coming Soon: The Hoover-Parker-Boone Cemetery (3WA1053), Woodland ceramics in the Mid-South and other assorted stuff.

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Last updated: 07/20/2007

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