Archeology is not simply about finding old things that have been buried by time and dirt. As a subdiscipline of anthropology, archeology is inevitably about what those things can tell us about past people--their cultures, their lives and what their daily experiences might have been like.

Van Winkle's Mill offers researchers several important venues in which they can contribute to understanding the past of not only the Arkansas Ozarks, but of modern America in a broader sense. Below are a few of the research avenues we have followed to this date. Click on the links below to learn more...

• Industrial Archeology in the Ozarks:The mill, its technology and labor.
• African-American Heritage in the Ozarks: race in the upland South.
• Landscape Archeology :What the landscape can tell us about this nineteenth-century industrial enterprise.
• Cultural Memory in the Ozarks: Why don't we think of industry, wealth and racial diversity when we talk about the Ozarks?