{"id":441,"date":"2012-10-01T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:12:23","slug":"the-aas-logo-the-kings-creek-bowl","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/outreach\/the-aas-logo-the-kings-creek-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"The ARAS Logo: The King’s Creek Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Arkansas Archeological Survey logo<\/p><\/div>\n

Little known fact: The Arkansas Archeological Survey logo is taken from an engraved stone bowl recovered from Columbia County–about eight miles south of Magnolia.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1970, a local collector found a few fragments of an engraved bowl on a small site called King’s Creek (3CO26) south of town.\u00a0 Dr. Schambach returned to the site with the collector and some volunteers (MacRae Blackwell, Bev and Sam Watkins, and Cynthia Weber) and sifted the plow zone in the immediate vicinity of the initial surface finds.\u00a0 They subsequently discovered about 2\/3 of the bowl in pieces.\u00a0 The bowl (reassembled by the collector) is 8 to 10 cm high and has oral diameters of 24 cm on its long axis and 18 cm on the short axis; the wall thickness varies from 3 mm to 13 mm at the thickest. It is carved about of steatite–a soft stone used to make bowls in the Poverty Point period (2000 B.C. to 600 B.C).\u00a0 We do find stone bowls in this period, but decorated ones are rare, which makes it some of the earliest artwork in the eastern US.<\/p>\n

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The reassembled King’s Creek bowl (with Dr. Frank Schambach’s hand).<\/p><\/div>\n

Louis Gregoire, then an artist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, made careful measurements and rendered the design long used as the Survey’s logo.<\/p>\n

The outstanding stylistic trait of the design is that it is composed of a single continuous line.\u00a0 The entire design can be traced without hitting a break in the line, backtracking or going over the same segment twice.\u00a0 This single line technique seems to be a basic one in the later woodland cultures.\u00a0 For instance, Marksville art as it is expressed in the recursive bird designs on Marksville pottery and, further afield, it occurs on Hopewellian pottery and on the famous Adena tablets.<\/p>\n

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The reassembled King’s Creek bowl (with Dr. Frank Schambach’s hand).<\/p><\/div>\n

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One of Louis Gregoire’s drawings of the bowl that would become the inspiration of our logo<\/p><\/div>\n

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2025-07-16: Drexler removed the collector’s name due to the collector’s wishes for anonymity and also corrected the site number and year of find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little known fact: The Arkansas Archeological Survey logo is taken from an engraved stone bowl recovered from Columbia County–about eight miles south of Magnolia. In 1970, a local collector found a few fragments of an engraved bowl on a small site called King’s Creek (3CO26) south of town.\u00a0 Dr. Schambach returned to the site with… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":446,"parent":135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions\/1166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/aas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}