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 repairing a vessel from the Spider Creek bluff shelter
University Museum Collections, University of Arkansas Other Bluff Shelter Sites
In all, Dellinger’s field crews excavated in over 80 bluff shelters in the Ozarks from 1931 through 1934. Wayne Henbest and Charles Finger, Jr. were the students who supervised most of the bluff shelter surveys and excavations, with James Durham and Tom Millard also having brief supervisory roles. Two other students, Jim Gore and Eugene Cypert, also assisted with the bluff shelter investigations, but seem not to have served as supervisors. As with the excavations in northeast Arkansas, the field supervisors hired local men to assist with the excavations, typically paying them 15 cents per hour.
Although he published several articles on the Ozark bluff shelters, Dellinger never published a synthetic account of the 1930s excavations conducted under his direction. Dellinger was extremely disappointed by the publication in 1960 of Mark Harrington’s The Ozark Bluff Dwellers, which covered the same area and some of the same sites where Dellinger’s crews worked. Apparently Dellinger felt that he would not be able to contribute anything beyond Harrington’s volume. Next > Salvage Archeology
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