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04/06/09: The April issue of the Kadohadacho News is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 04/14/09: The April Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, we will talk about the recent "spring break" excavations at the Royston House in Historic Washington State Park. 02/10/09: The February Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, the speaker will be Drs. Amanda Regnier and Scott Hammerstedt, archeologists with the Oklahoma Archeological Survey, will talk about their recent work on Caddo Indian sites in southeastern Oklahoma… 01/26/09: The February issue of the Kadohadacho News is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 12/09/08: The December Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, the speaker will be Dr. George Laankford who will talk about Native 11/25/08: The December issue of the Kadohadacho News is out. You can download a PDF version of it here.American myth and archeology. 10/13/08: Take a look at a PDF of an article in the Magnolia Banner-News about David Jeane's participation Louisiana Public Televisions' "Archives Road Show." 10/14/08: The October Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, the speaker will be David Jeane who will talk about excavations at Sulphur Fork Factory--an early trading post in the Red River region. 10/07-27/08: Dr. Brandon will be teaching a "Arkansas Archeology" class for the public through CCCUA's Continuing Education program at their DeQueen campus. Look here for a catalog and registration form. Registration is only $25 and the deadline to register is September 30th! 010/03-05/08: The State-wide annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society will be in Hot Springs. Look here for more information. 09/23/08: The October issue of the Kadohadacho News is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 9/26-28/08: The 10th South Central Historical Archeology Conference will be held atop Petit Jean Mt. at the WRI Research Station. Look here for more information. Summer 200807/29/08: The August issue of the Kadohadacho Newsis out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 07/21/08: You can take a look at the Channel 11 news story that covered the AAS dig. Read a transcript of the story here, or if you have a faster connection you can view the video of the story here. 06/14-29/08: The 2008 Arkansas Archeological Society/Survey Training Program (AKA "The Society Dig") will be excavating near Malvern, Arkansas on an Archaic period site important in helping us understand the prehistoric trade of stone quarried from the Ouachita Mountains. See Arkansas Archeological Society pages for more details. Spring 200804/21/08: The May issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 04/09/08: The April Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, the speaker will be Dr. Clarke Werneke of TARL who will talk about the nationally-known Gault SIte--a Clovis site in Central Texas...come see what the REAL 10,000 BC was like. 03/11/08: The March Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce Center 104 on the SAU campus, the speaker will be Duncan McKinnon (UofA) who will talk about our recent remote sensing project at Battle Mound in Lafayette County. 02/22/08: The March issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 02/08/08: You can read an article from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette asking you to help the FBI in their efforts to find the missing Caddo ceramic vessels stolen from the AAS-SAU Research Station. Download the PDF here. Fall 200712/11/07: The December Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce 104, the speaker will be Dr. Leslie "Skip" Stewart-Abernathy who will talk about archeology at Historic Washington State Park. 11/26-28/07: We'll be excavating in the back of the Royston House at Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out. 11/25/07: The December issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 11/16-18/07:Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the last of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out. 11/13/07: The Novemeber Chapter meeting will be held at 7:00pm in Bruce 104, the speaker will be John Miller who will talk about Caddo pottery. 11/12-16/07: We'll be excavating in the back of the Royston House at Historic Washington State Park in Hempstead County. Call or e-mail me if you would like to help out. 11/09-11/07: Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the second of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County.Call or e-mail us if you would like to help out 10/27/07: The AAS-SAU will be at the Texarkana Archaeology & Heritage Fair at Spring Lake Park, Park Road, Texarkana, Texas, Saturday, October 27, 2007, 10 am to 4 pm. Click here for more information. 10/26-28/07: Duncan McKinnon and crew will be conducting the first of a series of "long weekend" remote sensing surveys at Battle Mound in Lafayette County.Call or e-mail us if you would like to help out. 10/23/07: The November issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 10/22-26/07: John Samuelson and crew will be conducting a remote sensing survey of Crenshaw Mounds in Miller County. Call or e-mail us if you would like to help out. 10/20/07: Dr. Brandon will be helping to map Kingsland Cemetery in Kingsland, Arkansas. 10/09/07: Dr. Thomas Green, the Director of the Arkansas Archeological Survey will be the October Speaker for the Kadohadacho Chapter meeting--7:00pm, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 in Bruce Center rm 104 on the SAU Campus in Magnolia. Dr. Green will be speaking about the archeolog of the first people to inhabit North America. Who were they? Where did they come from? And how are they a part of our politics in the present? 09/27/07: Becky Bell's press release about the ACWSC picked up by the Magnolia Banner News. Read a PDF version here. 09/26/07: SAU Professor appointed to the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission by Becky Bell, University Editor from the Southern Arkansas University Communications Center. 09/11/07: The September meeting of the local chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will be held at 7:00pm on the SAU Campus. Dr. Jamie Brandon will speak about recent excavations in downtown Fort Smith Arkansas. Check out the Kadohadacho Chapter pages for more details. Summer 200708/07-28/07: Come take the community education course on Arkansas Archeology at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado--every Tuesday night in August. 08/06/07: Take a look at a PDF of an article in the Magnolia Banner-News about the one year anniversary of the Cedar Grove theft. 07/28/07: Dr. Jamie Brandon will be speaking at the Red River Heritage Symposium at Historic Washington State Park. You can down load a PDF of the details here . 06/09-24/07: The Arkansas Archeological Society Training Program (AKA "summer dig") will be held at the Jones Mill site (3HS28) near Malvern, AR. Look here for more details and registration information. 05/10/07: Dr. Brandon will be giving a gallery talk at the Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources in conjunction with an exhibit entitled "Of Machines and Men," 7:00pm, Thursday night, Smackover, Arkansas. Spring 200705/04 & 05/07: Dr. Brandon will be in Little Rock giving lectures on African-American archeology in Arkansas at the Preservation of African-American Cemeteries (PAAC) conference (Fri.& Sat.) and at the Historic Arkansas Museum (Sat.. 3:00, sponsored by the Mosaic Templar Cultural Center and associated with Arkansas Heritage Month). 04/11/07: Dr. Brandon will be speaking to folks at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas as a part of their lunch speaker series. 04/10/07: Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt will be the speaker at April's meeting of the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas ARcheological Society. 03/23/07: The April issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 03/15-18/07: The 49th annual Caddo Conference in Magnolia, AR. Click here for details. 03/13/07: The March meeting of the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society will be at 7:00pm in room 104 of the Bruce Center of the SAU campus. This Month's speaker is Jerry Hilliard who will talk about prehistoric rock art in Arkansas. 03/06/07: Dr. Jamie Brandon will give a lecture entitled "Historical Archeology in Arkansas: Why Do We Dig Up the Recent Past?" at 7:00 pm in the 1914 School in Historic Washington State Park, Washington, Arkansas. 03/01/07: Listen to an MP3 of an interview with David Jeane about the 2007 Caddo Conference from the Red River Radio News with Kate Archer. 03/01/07: March is Arkansas Archeology Month! Check this site for local programs in your area...this year's theme--Arkansas Rock Art. 02/19/07: The March issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 02/13/07: The first meeting of the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society this spring. We will meet at 7:00pm in room 104 of the Bruce Center on the SAU Campus. 02/10/07: The East Texas Archeological Conference will be held at the University of Texas at Tyler campus in Tyler, Texas. For more information contact Mark Walters. 02/02/07: AAS-SAU staff will be up near Hot Springs helping Dr. Mary Beth Trubitt map the Jones Mill Site (3HS28)--an Archaic-period site connected to the nearby novaculite quarries. 01/29/07: AAS-SAU staff will be helping conduct some high-tech remote sensing at the Mounds Plantation site in Louisiana this week. 01/19/07: The February issue of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 01/19/07: The AAS-SAU staff will begin documenting 4 cemeteries in Nevada and Columbia Counties...I'll be doing this every Friday until they are completed. Contact us if you are interested in helping out. 01/17/07: First day of classes at SAU...sign up for General Anthropology (SOC 1003) or Anthropology of North American Indians (SOC/HIST 3143).
Fall 200612/21/06: Happy Holidays from all of us at the AAS-SAU Research Station! 12/15/06: The holiday issue (January 2007) of the Kadohadacho Newsletter is out. You can download a PDF version of it here. 12/14/06: The AAS-SAU Research Associate David Jeane got married to Ruth Skinner today in the Magale Library on SAU campus. Congratulations David & Ruth! 12/02-03/06: The East Texas Caddo Research Group meets in Nacogdoches, Texas. 12/02/06: The 20th Annual Christmas and Candlelight at Old Washington Historic State Park. The entire park can be seen with natural 19th century decorations and three thousand luminaries lighting the way for you to stroll the historic streets. 11/28/06: Dr. Brandon will be speaking to the Magnolia Lion's Club at 12:00 noon at Miller's Cafeteria. 11/21/06: Dr. Jamie Brandon will be on the Timber Talk radio program. You can hear it on 100.5 FM KZHE in Magnolia, Arkansas, Tuesday from 9:30-10:00am or you can find a RealPlayer version in our Press & Media section. 11/20/06: The December issue of the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society has been published. Read a PDF version here. 11/16/06: Dr. Brandon will be speaking to the Magnolia Rotary Club at 12:00 noon at Miller's Cafateria. 11/08-12/06: The AAS will be sponsoring the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archeological Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas. 11/04/06: The AAS-SAU will be at "Civil War Days" at Historic Old Washington State Park. Come down and see us. 10/27-29/06: The eighth meeting of the South Central Historical Archaeology Conference will be held in Memphis, TN. 10/17/06: The first of a new series of newsletters for the Kadohadacho Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society has been published. Read a PDF version here. 10/16/06: Check out a PDF of the article of the Texarkana Archaeology & Heritage Fair printed in the Texarkana Gazette, Sunday, October 15, 2006. 10/14/06: The AAS-SAU will be at the Texarkana Archaeology & Heritage Fair at Spring Lake Park, Park Road, Texarkana, Texas, Saturday, October 14, 2006, 10 am to 4 pm. 09/25/06: Jen Brady of The Magnolia News-Banner has written a front-page article on the SAU Museum project. Here are two PDFs of the story: one at a lower resolution for slower connections ( 383 KB) and one at print-quality resolution (3.4 MB). 09/22-24/06: The annual meeting of the Arkansas Archeological Society in Little Rock, AR. 09/07/06: More about the theft from The Bray--SAU's student newspaper. Download a PDF version here. 08/30/06: Here's a revised inventory of the missing ceramic vessels--27, not 26. You can download a PDF version here, or look at the full color web version here. 08/21/06: Listen to an MP3 of an interview about the Cedar Grove collection theft from the Red River Radio News with Kate Archer. 08/10/06: Here's a link to an on-line article on the Cedar Grove collection theft by Jes Abeita in the Native Voice. 08/07/06: Here's the official press release on the SAU/AAS theft. 08/06/06: Here's a PDF of the article in the South Arkansas Sunday News on the SAU/AAS theft. 08/05/06: Here's a PDF of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette article that came out today on the SAU/AAS theft. 08/04/06: THEFT ALERT!!! There has been a major theft at the AAS-SAU Station...26 Caddo pots from the Cedar Grove site have been stolen. Click here for details of what was stolen. Press release to come. 08/03/06: The 2007 Caddo Conference will be held in the Donald W. Reynolds Center on the SAU campus March 15-18. Watch for more details. 04/30/06: Check out a PDF of an Texarkana City Guide article on the Gateway Project. |
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