Dr. Carl Drexler of the Arkansas Archeological Survey will present “The Underground Forest: Recapping the 2024 Arkansas Archeological Society Training Program at Nakuukuwidish” at the September meeting of the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society.
This talk will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, at 7 p.m. in the Rainey Room in the new CIC Building at Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts, 200 Whittington Ave., Hot Springs. The event is free and open to the public.
The Arkansas Archeological Society held its 2024 training program at Nakuukuwidish, a Caddo and Settler salt making site in Sevier County, near the Oklahoma border. This two-week excavation completed an excavation program begun 40 years ago and gives the ability to start to draw conclusions about the people who made the place important for over 400 years.
This talk will give a little insight into what excavators knew before going into the field, what they learned and what they can now say with the benefit of preliminary analyses.
Drexler is the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s research station archeologist at the Southern Arkansas University office in Magnolia.
The Arkansas Archeological Survey’s research station at Henderson State University, 1042 Haddock St., Arkadelphia, holds regular Archeology Lab Days on Thursdays. Students and members of the public are invited to come by the research station on Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. to learn more about archeology in Arkansas. For more information, contact Mary Beth Trubitt at 870-230-5510.