Author: dmckinnon

• UCA Field School 2019

  From May 13-31, 2019 University of Central Arkansas students will continue archeological research at Camp Halsey (3FA313) as part of the Field Archaeology course offered at UCA. The upcoming UCA field…

  April 15, 2019

• Field Trip to Camp Hollis

  On Friday, May 25 UCA students visited the site of Camp Hollis along Route 7 in the Ouachita National Forest. The camp was one of sixteen camps that existed with…

  May 28, 2018

• Article in Log Cabin Democrat

  Cindy Beckman from the Log Cabin Democrat visited us during our 2018 UCA field school and wrote a nice piece about the work! You can read the article here: “In…

  May 20, 2018

• Field Work, May 14-18, 2018

  After a hot and humid week filled with a bed of poison ivy (our workspace) and hundreds (thousands?) of ticks, we have successfully completed the scheduled field work associated with…

  May 20, 2018

• UCA Field School 2018

  From May 14-18, 2018 University of Central Arkansas students will be conducting archeological field work at Camp Halsey (3FA313) as part of the first accredited archaeological field school at UCA.…

  April 22, 2018

• Field work to prepare for field school

  It was a very cold day on January 3rd, 2018 (15 degrees!) but we spent several hours at the site doing some basic mapping and developing hypothesis questions to test…

  January 5, 2018

• Conference Presentation at ARAS

  On October 3, we presented the first of many presentations on our current and upcoming research at Camp Halsey. The paper was entitled, The Faulkner County Survey Project: Beginning a…

  November 23, 2017