IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
ARTIFACTS AS ART WHAT IS AN EFFIGY POT? COMPARISON AND CONTRAST THE SPIRO MOUND GROUP THE BLUFF SHELTERS A CARNEGIE GRANT & COB CAVE OTHER BLUFF SHELTER SITES SALVAGE ARCHEOLOGY ARTIFACTS FROM OTHER SITES
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Dellinger poses with colleagues at Cob Cave. The man at the left holds a tool kit. The man seated appears to be flint knapping—fashioning stone tools or weapon points—with a rock hammer.
University Museum Collections, University of Arkansas A Carnegie Grant & Cob Cave
Dellinger ultimately obtained funds for his endeavors from the Carnegie Foundation. Twenty thousand dollars, an enormous sum for the time, was made available over a three-year period from 1931 through 1933, in large part because of the Foundation’s concern for scores of bluff shelters likely to be lost due to the proposed damming of the White River.
In fact, the first sites investigated using the Carnegie funds, in 1931, were some bluff shelters in the headwaters of the Buffalo River, such as Cob Cave, where well-preserved cultivated plants, bags, cordage, and baskets were found. The excavators also recorded important pictographs and petroglyphs at Cob Cave, Indian Rock House, and other shelters. The same dry conditions that contributed to the preservation of so many perishables and the fine silty soils presented a potential health hazard, so the excavators wore respirators during the excavations. Next > Other Bluff Shelter Sites
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