This month is both the one year anniversary of my permanent arrival in Magnolia and the one year anniversary of the discovery of the theft of the Cedar Grove ceramic vessels from the AAS–SAU Research Station facility in the Bruce Center. I’ll be posting a one-year report to the blog in the next couple of […]
As you know from previous posts, in late March the AAS–SAU Research Station hosted the Caddo Archaeological Conference…all went well (with a few of the normal hick-ups)…you can check out my Flickr pages here for pictures of the event if you like. I have one interesting story to pass along from the conference, however…on Sunday […]
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 […]
We’re still hard at work getting the word out about the theft of a collection of Caddo pottery from the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Research Station at Southern Arkansas University. To date, we’ve given interviews to 5 TV stations, two radio networks and I forget how many newspapers–including the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Magnolia News Banner, The […]
I’ve posted pictures of the 26 missing Caddo vessels on my Flickr account…feel free to save them, post them, whatever… http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcbrandon/sets/72157594229217977/
August 7, 2006 For Immediate Release by the Arkansas Archeological Survey: The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Southern Arkansas University report the theft of 26 prehistoric Caddo Indian pottery vessels from the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Research Station collections at Southern Arkansas University. The pottery vessels are all from the Cedar Grove site located on the Red […]
Here’s a second article on the SAU Station theft…this one appeared in this Sunday’s South Arkansas Sunday News on page 1. It was written by the same reporter who did the extensive story on Frank Schambach’s retirement.
farther along... 