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VITA JOHN H. HOUSE Work Address: Arkansas Archeological Survey P.O. Box 4814 UAPB 1200 N. University Pine Bluff, AR 71601 (870) 535-4509 email: [email protected] Present Position: Station Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Research Station (also: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Instructor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) Personal Data: Born: September 21, 1948, Anchorage, Alaska Education: Graduate: Mountain Home High School, Mountain Home, Arkansas, 1966. Graduate: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1973, Degree: B.A., Major:

Anthropology. Ph. D.: Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1991, Department of Anthropology,

Dissertation Title: "Monitoring Mississippian Dynamics: Time, Settlement and Ceramic Variation in the Kent Phase, Eastern Arkansas." Doctoral dissertation chairman: Dr. Jon Muller.

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Academic Honors: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1985-1988. Graduate Essay Award, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois

University, 1987. Clarence B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology by a Young

Scholar in Southeastern Studies 1993. Research Interests: Eastern North American prehistory, Native American history, cultural

ecology, material culture. Research Grants: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant,

"Monitoring Mississippian Dynamics: Time Settlement and Ceramic Variation in the Kent phase, eastern Arkansas" (with dissertation chairman Dr. Jon Muller) (NSF Grant No. BNS 8719279).

National Science Foundation, "Kuykendall Brake: Biocultural Continuity

and the End of Prehistory in Central Arkansas" (NSF Grant No. SBR-9514381).

American Museum of Natural History, "James A. Ford's Archaeological

Field Records and Collections from Arkansas" (Collection Study Grant: Visit dates 9-12 April 1997).

Foreign Languages: German: basic speaking and reading capability Spanish: good speaking and reading capability Russian: basic speaking and reading capability Portuguese: minimal speaking and reading capability Courses taught in Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Introduction to Social Science SOCI 1320 (Honors) Introduction to Anthropology SOCI 2330 North American Indians SOCI 3380 Peoples and Cultures of Africa South of the Sahara SOCI 3360


Service on Masters and Doctoral Committees 1995-1998 Judy Hennessee Cooper, MA thesis, Anthropology, University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville, Chair Thomas J. Green. MA awarded 1998. 1997-1999 Carl Phillip Lipo, Ph.D dissertation, Anthropology, University of Washington,

Seattle, Chair, Robert Dunnell. Ph.D awarded 2000 (Note: This was an interim appointment)

2001-2003 Susan Wilkerson, MA internship, Anthropology, University of Arkansas,

Fayetteville, Chair, John H. House. MA awarded 2003. 2009-present Robert Scott, Ph. D dissertation, Anthropology, Southern Illinois University,

Carbondale, Chair, Paul Welch.


Professional Work Record: 1966: July-August. Roland Mound Salvage, Arkansas County, Arkansas (employed by

University of Arkansas Museum). Laborer. Supervisor, James A. Scholtz. 1967: April. Preliminary excavations at the Dumond site, Arkansas County, Arkansas (employed

by University of Arkansas Museum). Laborer. Supervisor, James A. Scholtz. 1969: July-August. Highway salvage, Hazel site, Poinsett County, Arkansas (employed by

University of Arkansas Museum). Supervisor, Albert C. Goodyear. 1970: July-August. Brand site excavation, Poinsett County, Arkansas (employed by Arkansas

Archeological Survey). Supervisors, Dan F. Morse and Albert C. Goodyear. 1971: February-August. Field Archaeologist employed by Georgia Historical Commission

(Interstate highways surveys, testing at prehistoric and historic sites, excavations at Fort Morris, Liberty County, Georgia). Supervisor, Gordon M. Midgette.

1972: May-June. Reconnaissance in Fourche Creek basin, Pulaski and Saline Counties,

Arkansas. Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisor, Hester A. Davis.

1972: June-August, October-December. Survey and excavation in the basin of Lake

Rodemacher, Rapides Parish Louisiana (employed by Gulf South Research Institute, Baton Rouge, Louisiana). Project Director.

1972: August-September. Reconnaissance in Mulberry Creek basin, west-central Arkansas.

Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisor, Hester A. Davis.

1973: January-May. Miscellaneous environmental impact assessments in northeast Arkansas.

Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisors: Hester A. Davis and Dan F. Morse.

1973-1974: June-August 1973, November 1973-November 1974. Cache River Archeological

Project. Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisor, Michael B. Schiffer.


1974-1975: December 1974-January 1975. Miscellaneous environmental impact assessments.

Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisor, Martha A. Rolingson.

1975: February-March. Archeological survey in Little Black River, Watershed, Arkansas and

Missouri. Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey, temporarily assigned to Division of American Archaeology, University of Missouri at Columbia. Supervisor, James E. Price.

1975: April-June. Research Assistant with Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisors, Hester

A. Davis, Phyllis Morse. 1975-1977: July 1975-September 1977. Highway environmental impact assessments and

mitigation research. Assistant Highway Archeologist, Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia. Supervisor, Albert C. Goodyear.

1978-1980: March 1978-August 1980. Research Assistant, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

station, Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisor, Leslie C. Stewart-Abernathy. 1981-82: March 1981-June 1982. Miscellaneous environmental impact assessments and

mitigation excavations. Research Assistant, Arkansas Archeological Survey. Supervisors, Frank Rackerby and W. Fredrick Limp.

1982-1983: July 1982-June 1983. Miscellaneous environmental impact assessments and

mitigation projects. Research Assistant, Arkansas Archaeological Survey. Supervisor, W. Fredrick Limp.

1983-1985: Station Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at

Monticello. Supervisor, Hester A. Davis. 1988: September-December. Station Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University

of Arkansas at Monticello. Supervisor, Hester A. Davis. 1989-present: Station Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at

Pine Bluff, Supervisor, George Sabo III.


PUBLICATIONS Articles in peer-reviewed journals: Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House 1977 Cultural resource management and archeological research: the Cache Project.

Current Anthropology 18: 43-68. 1993 Dating the Kent Phase. Southeastern Archaeology 12: 21-32. 2002 Wallace Bottom: A Colonial-Era Archaeological Site in the Menard Locality,

Eastern Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeology 21: 257-268. 2013 Native American Material Culture at the Wallace Bottom Site Southeastern

Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeology 35:54-69. Book 2003 Gifts of the Great River: Arkansas Effigy Pottery from the Edwin Curtiss

Collection, 1879-1880. Collections Series, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Chapters in books: 1977 Survey data and regional models in historical archaeology. In Research Strategies

in Historical Archaeology, edited by Stanley South, pp.241-260. Academic Press, New York.

1977 Prehistoric lithic resource utilization in the Cache basin: a preliminary analysis of

aboriginal procurement and utilization of Pitkin chert. In Conservation Archaeology: A Guide For Cultural Resource Management, edited by Michael B. Schiffer and George J. Gumerman, pp. 369-378. Academic Press, New York.

Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House 1977 An approach to assessing scientific significance. In Conservation Archaeology: A

Guide For Cultural Resource Management, edited by Michael B. Schiffer and George J. Gumerman, pp. 369-378. Academic Press, New York.

Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House 1977 The Cache Project survey design. In Conservation archaeology: a guide for

cultural resource management, edited by Michael B. Schiffer and George J. Gumerman, pp. 191-200. Academic Press, New York.


Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House 1977 Assessing impacts: examples from the Cache Project. In Conservation

Archaeology: A Guide For Cultural Resource Management, edited by Michael B. Schiffer and George J. Gumerman, pp. 309-320. Academic Press, New York.

1990 Powell Canal: Baytown period adaptation on Bayou Macon in southeast

Arkansas. In The Mississippian Emergence, edited by Bruce D. Smith, pp. 9-26. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.

1996 East-Central Arkansas. In Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley, edited by

Charles H. McNutt, pp. 137-154. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 2007 Powell Canal: Baytown Period Adaptation on Bayou Macon in Southeast

Arkansas. In The Mississippian Emergence, pp. 9-26. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. (Reprint of 1990 edition, with new forward by editor).

2007 Wallace Bottom: A Colonial Era Archaeological Context on the Lower Arkansas

River. In French Colonial Pottery, an International Conference, edited by George Avery, pp. 361-372. Northwestern State University Press, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Miscellaneous articles and monographs: 1968 Climatic and culturally-related subsistence factors in Baxter County archeology.

Arkansas Archeologist 9: 71-76. John H. House, Pete Shiras and Howard Knight 1969 The Shipps Ferry site, 3BA7, Baxter County, Arkansas. Arkansas Archeologist

10: 64-80. Michael B. Schiffer, John H. House, and Jacqueline R. Fehon 1974 The Cache River Archeological Project. Craighead County Historical Quarterly

12(3): 21-23. 1975 The Cache River Archeological Project. Arkansas Archeological Society Field

Notes 119-120: 3-6. 1975 Tentative research design for excavations on Poinsett County Watershed Basin

No. 1. Newsletter of the Central Lowlands Archeological Seminar and Symposium 1(2): 2-3.

1975 An archeological survey on Crowley's Ridge, northeast Arkansas. Newsletter of

the Central Lowlands Archaeological Seminar and Symposium 1(2): 2-3.


Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House, assemblers 1975 The Cache River Archeological Project: An Experiment in Contract Archaeology.

Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 8. 1975 Regional data in historical archeology: examples from environmental impact

surveys. Conference on Historic Site Archaeology Papers 10: 140-151. 1976 Highway archeology: the I-77 survey, Part I. Features and Profiles: South

Carolina's Archeological News, February 1976, pp. 2-3. 1976 Highway archeology: the I-77 survey, Part II. Features and Profiles: South

Carolina's Archeological News, October 1976, pp. 4-6. John H. House and Ron W. Wogaman 1978 Windy Ridge: A Prehistoric Site in The Inter-Riverine Piedmont in South

Carolina. Anthropological Studies, Occasional Papers of the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina 3.

1978 Flat-based shell tempered pottery in the Ozarks--a preliminary discussion.

Arkansas Archeologist 19: 44-49. 1978 Salvage excavations at Boydell-1978. Arkansas Archeological Society Field

Notes 163: 5-6. 1979 Ongoing analysis of Boydell data. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes

167:9-11. Goodyear, Albert C., John H. House, and Neal W. Ackerly 1979 Laurens-Anderson: An Archeological Study of The Inter-Riverine Piedmont in

South Carolina. Anthropological Studies, Occasional Papers of the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina 4.

1980 Unearthing ancient tools reveals Prairie's Indian history. Stuttgart Daily Leader

Centennial Edition, May 1980, pp. 1B, 3B, 5B. 1980 Archaic occupation in the Arkansas River Lowland. Arkansas Archeological

Society Field Notes 171: 5-10. 1982 Evolution of complex societies in east-central Arkansas: an overview of

environments and regional data bases. In Arkansas Archeology in Review, edited by Neal L. Trubowitz and Marvin D. Jeter, pp. 37-47. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 17.


1982 Prehistory in the Felsenthal region. In Human Adaptation in the Grand Marais Lowland: Intensive Archeological Survey And Testing in the Felsenthal Navigation Pool, Ouachita and Saline Rivers, Southern Arkansas, edited by E. Thomas Hemmings, pp. 51-78. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 17.

1982 Powell Canal: Baytown Period Occupation on Bayou Macon in Southeast

Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 19. 1982 Archaic occupation in southeast Arkansas. In A State Plan for the Conservation of

Archeological Resources in Arkansas, edited by Hester A. Davis, pp. SE 8-12. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 21.

1982 The Kent and Old Town phases: the late Mississippi period in east-central

Arkansas. In A State Plan for the Conservation of Archeological Resources in Arkansas, edited by Hester A. Davis, pp. SE 34-41. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 21.

John H. House and Henry S. McKelway 1982 Mississippian and Quapaw on the lower Arkansas. In A State Plan for the

Conservation of Archeological Resources in Arkansas, edited by Hester A. Davis, pp. SE 41-47. Arkansas Archeological Survey Reserch Series 21.

1983 Emergency salvage at Barrett Mound A, Lee County, Arkansas. Arkansas

Archeological Society Field Notes 192: 3-10. 1984 Tom Watts Collection contributed to the Survey and Jefferson County Historical

Museum. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 196: 3-4. 1985 Cutbank archeology: the White Oak site on White River, Prairie County,

Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 204: 13-17. Hemmings, E. Thomas and John H. House, editors 1985 The Alexander Site, Conway County, Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological Survey

Research Series 21. 1987 Kent phase investigations in eastern Arkansas, 1978-1984. Mississippi

Archaeology 22: 46-60.


John H. House and Rebecca B. House 1987 Investigating early Mississippi period occupation in the Lower St. Francis Basin,

eastern Arkansas. In The Emergent Mississippian: Proceedings of the Sixth Mid-South Archaeological Conference June 6-9, 1985, edited by Richard A. Marshall, pp.122-136.

1988 Kent phase fieldwork, Spring 1988. Field Notes: Monthly Newsletter of the

Arkansas Archeological Society 222: 3-5. 1989 L'Eau Noire Incised pottery in east-central Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological

Society Field Notes 231:3-5 1990 Lueken collection donated to Survey. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes

223:14. 1991 The Mississippian sequence in the Menard Locality, eastern Arkansas. In

Arkansas Before the Americans, edited by Hester A. Davis, pp. 6-39. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 40.

1991 Resurveying the Bartholomew Bypass near Pine Bluff. Arkansas Archeological

Society Field Notes 243:3. 1992 Test Excavations at the Mound Cemetery Site, Lee County. Arkansas

Archeological Society Field Notes 246:12. 1992 Buffalo Bones Identified at Lincoln County Archeological Site. Arkansas

Archeological Society Field Notes 248:3. 1993 Continuing Field Studies at the Sarassa Lake Site. Arkansas Archeological

Society Field Notes 251:10-11. 1993 Decoding Mississippian Ceramic Art in the Central Mississippi Valley. Arkansas

Archeologist 32:153-156. John H. House and Marvin D. Jeter 1994 Archaeological Investigations at Boydell Mound A (3AS58), Southeast Arkansas.

Arkansas Archeologist 33:1-82. 1995 Excavations at the Clay Hill and Kent Sites, Lee County, Arkansas. Arkansas

Archeologist 34:1-60. 1995 Mississippian Farmstead Testing in the Lower St. Francis Basin, Spring 1995.

Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 266:7-11.


1996 Mound Cemetery Revisited. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 270:4-5. 1997 Noble Lake: A Protohistoric Site on the Lower Arkansas River. Arkansas

Archeologist 36:46-97. 1999 A Radiocarbon Date from Mound Cemetery. Arkansas Archeological Society

Field Notes 286:3-4. John H. House, Mary Evelyn Starr and L. C. Stewart-Abernathy 1999 "Rediscovering Menard." Mississippi Archaeology 34:156-177. 2001 McGimsey Preservation Awards Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Arkansas

Archeological Society to Arkansas Post National Memorial and White River National Wildlife Refuge. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 303:3.

2003 Arkansas Archeology in Review: The Kent Phase. Arkansas Archeological

Society Field Notes 310:8-13. 2003 Process and Change during the Woodland-Mississippian Transition (pre-

conference email). In Woodland-Mississippian Transition in the Mid-South, Proceedings of the 22nd Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by Charles H. McNutt, Stephen Williams, and Marvin D. Jeter, pp. 29-31. University of Memphis Anthropological Research Center Occasional Publication 25.

2005 Radiocarbon Dates from the Lake Dumond Site. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 323:13-14.

2006 Archeology of Historic Indians on the Lower Arkansas River. Arkansas

Archeological Society Field Notes 330:3-7. House, John H. and Glen D. Akridge 2006 Identification of Vermilion in Colonial Era Indian Graves at the Lake Dumond

site, Arkansas, County, Arkansas. Arkansas Archeological Society Field Notes 322:3-7.

House, John H. and Glen D. Akridge 2006 Identification of Vermilion in Colonial Era Indian Graves at the Lake Dumond

site, Arkansas, County, Arkansas. Arkansas Archeologist 46:21-26. House, John H. and John Riggs 2010 Radiocarbon Dates from the Dobrovich site, Prairie County. Arkansas

Archeological Society Field Notes 356:12-13. 2015 UAPB Archeologists Uncover Glimpses of Pine Bluff’s Early History.

Archeological Society Field Notes 382:6-7.


Reviews: 1987 Review of: Excavations at the Lake George Site, Yazoo County, Mississippi,

1958-1960, by Stephen Williams and Jeffrey P. Brain. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 74 (accepted for publication by North American Archaeologist).

1988 Review of: The Wilsford site (22-Co-516), Coahoma County, Mississippi: a late

Mississippi period settlement in the northern Yazoo Basin of Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report 14. Southeastern Archaeology 7:132-138.

1993 Review of: Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North

America, by (Bruce D. Smith (with contributions by C. Wesley Cowan and Michael P. Hoffman). Mississippi Archaeology 28(2):88.

1994 Review of: Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen

Williams, edited by James B. Stoltman. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archaeological Report 25. Southeastern Archaeology 14:91-92.

1996 Review of: Paradigms of the Past: The Story of Missouri Archaeology, by

Michael J. O'Brien, University of Missouri Press, 1995. Journal of Anthropological Research 52:501-544.

1999 Review of: Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi

Valley, edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert C. Dunnell. American Antiquity 64:379-200.

1999 Review of James A. Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology, by

Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman, University of Missouri Press 1998, Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society, 46:64-65.

Technical reports and manuscripts: 1972 Preliminary archeological reconnaissance of the Fourche Creek basin in Pulaski

and Saline counties, Arkansas. Manuscript on deposit at Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

1972 Preliminary archeological reconnaissance of the Mulberry Creek basin, Arkansas.

Manuscript on deposit at Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville. 1973 Archeological resources, in Draft environmental impact statement, Cache River

Basin Project, Arkansas. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Memphis


District. Michael B. Schiffer and John H. House, assemblers 1974 The Cache River Archeological Project: an experiment in contract archeology.

Preliminary draft submitted to Corps of Engineers, Memphis District, by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

1975 Archeological salvage in the basin of Lake Rodemacher, Rapides Parish,

Louisiana. Report available from Gulf South Research Institute, Baton Rouge. Price, James E., Cynthia R.Price, John Cottier, Suzanne Harris and John H. House 1975 An assessment of the cultural resources of the Little Black River Watershed.

Report prepared for the Soil Conservation Service by Division of American Archaeology, University of Missouri, Columbia.

1975 A preliminary archeological field study of twelve structure areas in the Soil

Conservation Service Poinsett Watershed Project. Manuscript on deposit at the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

John H. House and Albert C. Goodyear III 1975 An archeological survey of a portion of the Charleston Innerbelt Freeway,

Charleston County, South Carolina. Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. Research Manuscript Series 83.

1975 Regional data in historical archeology: examples from environmental impact

surveys. Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Research Manuscript Series 85.

John H. House and David L. Ballenger 1976 An archeological survey of the Interstate 77 route in the South Carolina Piedmont.

Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Research Manuscript Series 106.

Ronald W. Wogaman, John H. House, and Albert C. Goodyear 1976 An archeological reconnaissance of the four Twelfth Street Extension routes,

Lexington County, South Carolina, Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Research Manuscript Series 106.

1978 Exploring prehistoric utilization of the inter-riverine Piedmont in South Carolina:

the excavations at Windy Ridge. Ms. in possession of the author.


1981 Floodplain adaptation: some comparative data from Rio Ucayali, Peruvian Amazonia. Ms. in possession of author and on deposit at Centro Amazonio para Antropologia y Applicacion Practica, Lima, Peru.

Sabo, George III, David B. Waddell, and John H. House 1982 A cultural resources overview of the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Arkansas.

Report submitted to United State Department of Agriculture--United States Forest Service, Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Russellville, Arkansas by Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

1983 Archeological overview of the Felsenthal region (with W. Frederick Limp). In A

preliminary report on the Bangs Slough (3CA3) data recovery excavations, Calhoun County, Arkansas, by Frank Schambach. Arkansas Archeological Survey Project Number 567. Report submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District.

Robert H. Lafferty and John H. House, editors 1986 Model validation in Sparta. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 25. 1986 Strangers, captives and slaves: interethnic relations in the Lower Mississippi

Valley, 1673-1700. Ms. in possession of author. 1986 The Mississippian sequence in the Menard locality, eastern Arkansas. Ms. in

possession of the author. David B. Waddell, John H. House, Frances B. King, Mona L. Colburn and Murry K. Marks 1987 Results of final testing for significance at the Ink Bayou site (3PU252), Pulaski

County, Arkansas. Report submitted to Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department by Sponsored Research Program, Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

2001 Preliminary Report On Artifacts And Material Culture Samples From Colonial-

Era Indian Graves At The Lake Dumond Site, Arkansas County, Arkansas. Report to Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

House, John H. and Mary V. Farmer and Peggy S. Lloyd 2001 Phase II Testing of Seven Archeological Sites on the Pine Bluff Arsenal,

Jefferson County, Arkansas. Report submitted to United States Department of the Army, Pine Bluff Arsenal by Department Of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.


2001 Archeological Investigations At The Wallace Bottom Site, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas, 2000-2001. Report submitted to United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Archeologist's Office, Savannah, Georgia by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

2002 Archeological Investigations at the Wallace Bottom Site, White River National

Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas: 2002 Season, Report submitted to United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Archaeologist's Office, Savannah, Georgia by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

House, John H. and Jami J. Lockhart 2004 “Cooperation Then and Now,” Archeological Investigations at the Wallace

Bottom Site, White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas: 2003 Season. Report submitted to Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma and United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Archaeologist’s Office, Savannah, Georgia by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

Lockhart, Jami J. and John H. House 2004 Archaeogeophysical Mapping of a Proposed Visitor Contact Facility at Arkansas

Post National Memorial, Osotouy Unit. Report submitted to United States National Park Service, Arkansas Post National Memorial, by Arkansas Archeological Survey Sponsored Research Program.

2004 Item on Edwin Curtiss for Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=1109

2006 Observations at Two Archeological Sites in the Proposed Port of Pine Bluff

Expansion Project, Jefferson County, Arkansas. Report Submitted to Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and The Alliance for Economic Development for Jefferson County by Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Station.

2007 Oral History and Subsurface Archeological Investigation at the Sturgen Church

Site 3JE180 in the Proposed Port of Pine Bluff Expansion Project, Jefferson County, Arkansas. Report Submitted to Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and The Alliance for Economic Development for Jefferson County by Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Station.

2008 Preliminary Archeological Investigation at the McKimmey Site 3PU103, Little

Rock Port Industrial Park Vicinity, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Report Submitted to Arkansas Historic Preservation Program by Arkansas Archeological Survey.


2009 Cultural Resources Survey of the Welspun Pipe Mill Barge Dock, Pulaski

County, Arkansas. Report Submitted to US Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District and Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Little Rock, by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

2011 Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Microwave Tower, Arkansas Post

National Memorial, Arkansas County, Arkansas. Report submitted to US National Park Service, Arkansas Post National Memorial, by Arkansas Archeological Survey.

2012 Cultural Resources Survey of the Projected Lake Saracen Splash Park, Pine Bluff,

Arkansas. Report submitted to City of Pine Bluff, Parks and Recreation Commission and Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Little Rock by the Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Pine Bluff Research Station.

2013 Cultural Resources Survey of a 160-acre Tract Purchased by the Quapaw Tribe

of Oklahoma, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Report submitted to the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, Oklahoma by Arkansas Archeological Survey Sponsored Research Program.

Papers presented at meetings: National and International Meetings: 1975 The Cache River Archeological Project: substantive results. Society for American

Archeology, Dallas, TX, May 8, 1975. 1980 Evolution of complex societies in east-central Arkansas: an overview of

environments and regional data bases. Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, May 3 1980.

1975 Regional data in historical archeology: examples from environmental impact

surveys. Conference on Historical Site Archeology, Gainesville, FL, November 6, 1975.

1991 Mississippian settlement and Mississippian dynamics in the Lower St. Francis

Basin, eastern Arkansas. Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, 26 April 1991.

Stewart-Abernathy, Leslie C. and John H. House 2000 Looking for Arkansas Post at Lake Dumond in the Menard-Hodges Locality,

Arkansas County, Arkansas. Society for Historical Archaeology, Quebec City,


Quebec, Canada, 6 January 2000. 2001 Time Exposure: Explaining Mississippian Settlement Variation in the Lower St.

Francis Basin, eastern Arkansas Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 2001.

2002 Wallace Bottom: A Colonial-Era Archaeological Context on the Lower Arkansas

River. French Colonial Ceramics Conference, Marksville, Louisiana, September 7, 2002.

Feathers, James, Robert Dunnell, John House and Carl Lipo 2004 Luminescence Dating of Ceramics in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Poster

presentation at Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Montreal, Québec Canada, March 31 - April 4, 2004.

2012 Regional Variation in Mississippian Effigies in Eastern Arkansas, Paper presented

in the symposium, “Precolumbian Ceramic Art in Arkansas and Missouri,” at the Society for American Archaeology, 77th Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012.

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Local and Regional Meetings 1973 Late Archaic settlement patterns in the eastern Arkansas Ozarks: new data and

some hypotheses. Paper presented to the Anthropology section, Arkansas Academy of Science, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro.

1974 The Cache River Archeological Project: survey methods and contract archeology.

Paper presented at Southeastern Archeological Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. 1976 Investigating Piedmont prehistory: survey methods and settlement models. Paper

presented at the Second Annual Conference on South Carolina Archeology, Columbia, SC, May 22, 1976.

1976 Exploring prehistoric utilization of the inter-riverine Piedmont: the Interstate 77

survey. Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, November 5, 1976.

1978 Exploring prehistoric utilization of the inter-riverine Piedmont: the excavations at

Windy Ridge. Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, TN, November 9, 1978.

1983 Noble Lake: Quapaw phase occupation in the Arkansas River Lowland, eastern

Arkansas. Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference,


Columbia, SC, November 1983. 1984 Kent phase investigations in eastern Arkansas, 1978-1984. Paper presented at the

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL, November 1984. 1985 Noble Lake: a Quapaw phase archeological site in Jefferson County, Arkansas.

Paper presented at a conference entitled, "The Quapaw, a living tradition," Pine Bluff, Arkansas, March 30, 1985.

1986 The Mississippian sequence in the Menard locality, Arkansas County, Arkansas.

Paper presented at a conference entitled, "Arkansas before the Americans," Little Rock, Arkansas, October 24, 1986.

1986 The Mississippian sequence in the Menard locality, eastern Arkansas. Paper

presented at the Southeastern Archeological Conference, Nashville, TN, November 7, 1986.

1988 In search of Mississippian dynamics: time and settlement in the Kent phase,

eastern Arkansas. Paper presented at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, New Orleans, LA, October 23, 1988.

1989 Overview of prehistory in East-Central Arkansas. Paper Presented at the annual

meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society, Memphis Tennessee, 21 April 1989.

1990 Mississippian settlement history and Mississippian settlement processes in the

Lower St. Francis Basin, eastern Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile, AL, 7 November 1990.

1991 Dating the Kent Phase. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Jackson, MS, 9

November 1991. 1992 Boydell: Three Centuries at a Ceremonial Center in Southeastern Arkansas.

Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR, 23 October 1992. 1994 Quapaw Archeology Since Ford. Mid-South Archaeological Conference,

Memphis, TN, 11 June 1994. 1994 Protohistoric Archaeology of the Lower Arkansas River. Southeastern

Archaeological Conference and Midwestern Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY, 10 November 1994.

1995 Investigating Mississippian Site Variability in the Lower St. Francis Basin,

Eastern Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Knoxville, TN, 9


November 1996. 1996 Kuykendall Brake: A Window into the End of Prehistory in Central Arkansas.

Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Memphis, TN, 29 June 1996. 1997 Time, People and Material Culture at the Kuykendall Brake Archeological Site,

Pulaski County Arkansas. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 6 November 1997.

1998 Time, People, Plants and Material Culture at the Kuykendall Brake Archeological

Site, Pulaski County Arkansas. Caddo Archeological Conference, Arkadelphia , AR, 13 March 1998.

John H. House and Mary Evelyn Starr 1998 Rediscovering Menard. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Greenville, SC,

12 November 1998. 1999 Wallace Bottom: Early Eighteenth Century Native American and French Material

Culture on the Lower Arkansas River. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Pensacola, FL, 12 November 1999.

2001 Glimpses of Colonial Archaeology in the Menard Locality, Eastern Arkansas.

South Central Historical Archaeological Conference, Little Rock, AR, 19 October 2001.

2004 Review of James A. Ford’s Helena Crossings Excavation and Its Significance for

Middle Woodland Archeology in the Mid-South. Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Tunica, Mississippi, 7-8 June 2004. (Informal presentation in discussion symposium chaired by Stephen Williams).

2004 Discussant Comments: Symposium, “Interstate 69 in Mississippi: A Regional

Archaeological Perspective.” Southeastern Archaeological Conference/ Midwest Archaeological Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

2009 Material Culture of the Downstream People. Kincaid Field Conference,

Metropolis, Illinois, 26 July 2009. 2011 Native American Ceramics at the Wallace Bottom Site, Southeastern Arkansas.

Colonial and Post-Colonial Ceramics of the Mississippi Delta Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, November 10-12, 2011.


2012 Time, Plants, and People at a Prehistoric Native American Archeological Site in Central Arkansas. Sigma Xi Central Arkansas Chapter Spring Banquet, Little Rock, 27 April, 2012.

House, John H. and Jessica R. Howe 2013 Archeology on Fourche Island, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 2007-2010. Paper

presented at Arkansas Archeological Society Annual Meeting, Conway, Arkansas, September 28, 2013.

2014 History Beneath Our Feet in Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff-Jefferson County Historical Museum, 6 March 2014.

2015 The View from Wallace Bottom, and Colonial Era Native American Graves at

Lake Dumond Excavated in 1997. Presented at the Quapaw History Conference sponsored by the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Downstream Casino Resort, Quapaw, Oklahoma, 4 March 2015.

2015 Archeology on the Bank of Lake Saracen in Downtown Pine Bluff. Pine Bluff-

Jefferson County Historical Museum, 2 April 2015. 2015 Archeologists and Communities as Partners in Preserving African American

Cemeteries in Arkansas. Preserving African American Cemeteries, Inc., Memorial in May Conference, hosted by Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Downstream Casino Resort, Quapaw, Oklahoma, 4 May 2015.

2015 Excavating a Civil War Battle Field Grave at Helena Arkansas. Civil War

Roundtable of the Delta, Helena, Arkansas, 18 May 2015. Invited Lectures: "Anthropological Theory in Archeology," Professor Hans Baer's Anthropological Theory class, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 6 April 1990. "Noble Lake: The Twilight of Prehistory in Jefferson County," presented to a campus and community audience as part of UAPB's Academic Lecture Series, 16 October 1990. "Kent Phase Archeology" Winterville Mounds State Monument, Greenville, Mississippi in conjunction with Mississippi Archaeology Week. The lecture series was supported by a grant from Mississippi Humanities Council, 4 March 1992. "Art of the Prehistoric Southeastern Indians," Arts Center of the Grand Prairie, Stuttgart, Arkansas, 12 April 1994. "Protohistoric Archeology on the Lower Arkansas River," joint University of Arkansas


Little Rock and Western Michigan University Archaeological Field School, Little Rock, directed by Dr. Michael Nassaney, Western Michigan University, 17 May 1994. "Archeological Research on the Kent Phase," University of Arkansas Archeological Field School, Parkin Archeological State Park, Parkin, Arkansas, directed by Parkin Station Archeologist Jeffrey Mitchem, 3 August 1994. Two lectures: "Mounds and Community Architecture in Prehistory" and "Mississippi River Villages and Communities: Early Settlement Patterns in Prehistory" in Phillips County Community College's Community Lecture Series, "Built Structures: Periscopes in Time," 18-19 October 1994. Keynote Address: "The Kent Phase: A Journey of Archaeological Discovery in the Lower St. Francis Basin, Eastern Arkansas." Mississippi Archaeological Association Annual Meeting, Greenwood, MS, 16 March 1996. "The Menard-Hodges Site: The Archeology of Quapaw-French Contact on the Lower Arkansas River, Snyder Museum, Bastrop, Louisiana (in conjunction with Louisiana Archaeology Week), 5 October 1997. Colloquium: "The Menard-Hodges Site: Archeology at the Most Historic Place in Arkansas," Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 11 February 1998. "Archeology at the Menard-Hodges Site: The Quapaw Village of Osotouy", Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Lecture Series, sponsored by Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma and U.S. National Park Service, Quapaw Tribal Community Building, Quapaw Oklahoma, 3 May 1998. "Glimpses of Archeology in the Arkansas Delta." Deborah House's Archaeology of the Southwest Class, Dine' College, Tsaile Campus, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 24 March 1999. "From Prehistory to History at the Menard-Hodges Site, Eastern Arkansas." Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 20 March 2000.

"At the Bayou of the Old Fort: Searching for Poste aux Akanças and Quapaw Osotouy." Lecture presented at a conference titled," Colonial Arkansas" at Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, 9-10 October 2003. Conference held in conjunction with exhibit, Colonial Arkansas Before the Louisiana Purchase," 9 October-31 December 2003.

"Colonial Archeology in Arkansas," George McCluskey's Archaeology of the Southeastern United States class, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 14 April 2004.

“From Prehistory to History on the Lower Arkansas River,” Anthropology Colloquium,


University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 14 April 2005. “Polychromes and Quapaw on the Lower Arkansas River,” University of Mississippi

Archaeological Field School, Parchman Site, Clarkesdale, Mississippi, 22 July 2009. “Where is Fourche Island: Archeology in the Environs of the Little Rock Port Industrial Park, Pulaski County, Arkansas.” Professor Brett Hill’s Archeological Methods class, Hendrix College, Conway, 10 February 2009. “Glimpses of Local History and Archeology.” “O-Gah-Pah Homecoming” hosted by Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Little Rock, Arkansas, 11 October 2013.

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