Elijah (Perhaps we can also call him Ilyas)

Congratulations to John & Rachel on the birth of Elijah…

Happy Holidays from Magnolia!

The image in this post is SAU’s signature Bell Tower all “lit up” for the holidays (it usually looks like this). It’s hard to believe that I’ll be finishing my first semester as the AAS-SAU Research Station Archeologist…time goes by quite quickly. My first semester here I’ve dealt with the Cedar Grove Collection theft, started […]

Happy Birthday!

A.J. & Ted….a day that will live in infamy.

From the Shreveport Times…

I got this from David Jeane…I’ve always wanted to study Indian “Air Heads.”….

The Boll Weevil Revisited

Just a quick word regarding one of the GSC mascots I mentioned a post or so back…last week (before the SEAC Conference) I was in Monticello giving an archeology talk when I visited the bookstore. The bookstore carried bumper stickers that not only sported the big green boll weevil (see mascot costume to the right), […]

The Caddo Conference Comes to Magnolia

The 49th Caddo Conference will be held in the new Reynolds Center on the SAU campus here in Magnolia this March (incidentally, March is Arkansas Archeology Month). The Caddo Conference, however, is not just another archeological conference…it has a unique history and form that makes it stand out amongst the hundreds of other archeological conferences […]

Odd Mascots and the GSC Conference

Tonight I watched the Southern Arkansas vs. Arkansas Tech game (after “mulegating” by the Welcome Center)….My first SAU football game. It was a close game, with the momentum swinging back and forth several times during the game…But, alas, SAU lost 36-29 in the last minutes of the final quarter. As I watched the “Muleriders” take […]

Class vs. Race

In a post entitled “Ethnographic study: Why the education system fails white working-class children” on :: antropologi.info ::, Lorenz blogs about class as a forgotten issue in our culture (or at least in the educational system in the UK). This post caught my eye as I’ve been writing a synthesis of how archaeologists have dealt […]

Why Cemeteries?

Some folks who follow my Flickr stream have commented on the fact that I seem to have become obsessed with cemeteries in southwestern Arkansas…”Why so many cemetery visits?” someone asked (I think my Station Assistant shares this confusion, but he has not directly asked me yet). There are several reasons for my newly acquired cemetery […]

Kadohadacho Reborn

Thirty-six years ago (Nov. 10, 1970) folks interested in archeology formed a chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society in Magnolia, Arkansas. The members met and voted to call themselves the “Kadohadacho Chapter.” Almost 30 people showed up to that first meeting including folks from Magnolia, Texarkana, Camden, Junction City, El Dorado, Hope, Smackover and, believe […]