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Author : Robert C. Mainfort
Release : 1999
Genre : Archaeologists
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Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse (p) by : Robert C. Mainfort
Download or read book Arkansas Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Dan and Phyllis Morse (p) written by Robert C. Mainfort. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert C. Mainfort
Release : 1999-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Arkansas Archaeology by : Robert C. Mainfort
Download or read book Arkansas Archaeology written by Robert C. Mainfort. This book was released on 1999-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas has long been recognized as a state with a rich archaeological heritage that is unsurpassed in North America. The Toltec Mounds were made famous by the Smithsonian's research at the turn of the century. The Sloan site, dated to 8500 B.C., is the oldest documented burial ground in the New World. The alluvial plain of the central Mississippi River valley supported perhaps the greatest prehistoric urban population. And the Parkin site has yielded important information about the de Soto incursion into the continent. This festschrift recognizes the contributions made in researching this varied heritage by Dan and Phyllis Morse from the inception of the Arkansas Archeological Survey in 1967 to their retirement in 1997. The essays were prepared by thirteen of their colleagues, recognized experts in archaeology and related fields, and represent state-of-the-art knowledge about Arkansas's archaeology. The topics range broadly: from prehistoric environments and regional syntheses to specialized studies of specific culture periods and historical archaeology. Paul and Hazel Delcourt and Roger Saucier provide a chapter that will serve as a standard reference for many years on Holocene environments; Chris Gillam's contribution demonstrates the utility of Geographic Information Systems in broad-scale pattern analysis; Robert Mainfort uses large collections of ceramics to show that traditional methods for grouping Late Mississippian sites are insufficient; Michael Hoffman introduces a new line of evidence from old newspaper accounts; and Frank Schambach, in reinterpreting the spectacular Spiro site in eastern Oklahoma, gives us a powerful, classic example of archaeological and ethnohistoric interpretation. This volume will, of course, be of great interest to professional archaeologists and anthropologists, but the essays are also accessible to students, amateur archaeologists, historians, and enthusiastic general readers. As the new millennium dawns, this book celebrates the legacy of two very distinguished careers in archaeology and heralds the proliferation of innovative new approaches and techniques for the continuing study of Arkansas's prehistoric peoples.
Author : Carl G. Drexler
Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Historical Archaeology of Arkansas by : Carl G. Drexler
Download or read book Historical Archaeology of Arkansas written by Carl G. Drexler. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This manuscript brings together 9 essays on the diversity of historical archaeological research in Arkansas. The essays range from Civil War sites to an Ozark Mountain blacksmith shop to the nineteenth-century Jewish community. The editors note that this project is meant to display the research being conducted in what they consider to be a forgotten southern state in addition to the type of archaeological research that can be accomplished with the full backing of various state institutions"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Neal L. Trubowitz
Release : 1982
Genre : Archaeology
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Book Synopsis Arkansas Archeology in Review by : Neal L. Trubowitz
Download or read book Arkansas Archeology in Review written by Neal L. Trubowitz. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary L. Kwas
Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Digging for History at Old Washington by : Mary L. Kwas
Download or read book Digging for History at Old Washington written by Mary L. Kwas. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce, business, and county government in the nineteenth century. Historical figures such as Davy Crockett and Sam Houston passed through, and during the Civil War, when the Federal troops occupied Little Rock, the Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington served as the seat of state government. A prosperous town fully involved in the events and society of the territorial, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, Washington became in a way frozen in time by a series of events including two fires, a tornado, and being bypassed by the railroad in 1874. Now an Arkansas State Park and National Historic Landmark, Washington has been studied by the Arkansas Archeological Survey over the past twenty-five years. Digging for History at Old Washington joins the historical record with archaeological findings such as uncovered construction details, evidence of lost buildings, and remnants of everyday objects. Of particular interest are the homes of Abraham Block, a Jewish merchant originally from New Orleans, and Simon Sanders from North Carolina, who became the town’s county clerk. The public and private lives of the Block and Sanders families provide a fascinating look at an antebellum town at the height of its prosperity.
