EARLY ARCHEOLOGY
EDWIN CURTISS & THE PEABODY MUSEUM EDWARD PALMER & THE SMITHSONIAN CLARENCE MOORE MARK HARRINGTON SITE NOTES DELLINGER BECOMES A RELIC ARKANSAS ARCHEOLOGY TODAY
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Cat-serpent rim effigy bowl Cross County, Arkansas Mississippian period, AD 1200-1600 Shell-and-grog-tempered earthenware The cat serpent is associated with the underworld in Mississippian ideology. The motif is one of the most commonly found among Mississippian effigy vessels, characterized by a toothy mouth and curled tail. Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, Harvard University Edwin Curtiss & the Peabody Museum
Outsiders have long been aware of Arkansas’s rich archeological resources. As early as 1848, E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis published Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, which included Arkansas sites. In the 1870s Edwin Curtiss of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University did preliminary excavations at the site now known as Toltec Mounds and more extensive digging in what is now the Parkin Archeological State Park.
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