Today’s Manuscript Monday is an important overview of Arkansas (and Louisiana) archaeology. Well, the southern portion of Arkansas, at least. Jeter et al’s (1989) Archeology and Bioarcheology of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Trans-Mississippi South in Arkansas and Louisiana. I’ve been using this a lot in working on the final report of last February’s fieldwork at Wallace’s Ferry, in Phillips County. Though that site is in eastern Arkansas, this book is relevant to this neck of the woods as well, and bears the marks of Frank Schambach’s heavy contributions to the work. It is one of the most recent summaries of the region’s prehistory.
Copies are available at Magale Library at SAU as well as the Barton Library in El Dorado.
