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Sulphur Springs, located in south-central Oklahoma on what is now Chickasaw National Recreation area presents a complex tale of frontier politics. Located around a series of mineral and fresh-water springs, Sulphur Springs was an attempt by European Americans to create a health resort on land owned by the Chickasaw Nation. National politics, including the Dawes Act, and issues involving water quality led to the purchase of the town’s improvements in 1902, and again in 1904. This purchase became...
Paleoindian Use of the Western Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma (2015)
At present, the archaeological record of eastern Oklahoma reflects abundant evidence of prehistoric occupation in the region’s river valleys, from the Paleoindian period onward. Conversely, little archaeological work has been done in the upland environments of the Western Ouachita Mountains. Yet these uplands are notably rich in resources, ranging from high quality lithic sources, lush plant-life, diverse animal species, and many streams and rivers providing water throughout the year. I...
Preliminary analysis of Archaic lithic material from the Murrell Home in Cherokee County, Oklahoma (2017)
In 2016, excavations at the George M. Murrell Home, a mid-nineteenth century plantation home located in northeastern Oklahoma, yielded a number of chipped stone artifacts attributable to the Archaic period. Abandoned during the Civil War, the Murrell home is currently owned by the Oklahoma Historical Society and run as a living history museum and park. Located near the confluence of three major waterways, the site lies in an ecotone between broadleaf forests and prairie parkland. The lithic...
Renewed Investigation of Sites within the Black Mesa Region, Oklahoma Panhandle (2016)
Early archaeological investigations in the Black Mesa area of Oklahoma were geared toward the discovery of additional evidence of "Early Man" in North America. The 1926 discovery of the Folsom type site encouraged E.B. Renaud to explore caves along the Dry Cimarron just 50 kilometers downstream. Rather than discovering additional Paleoindian sites, the University of Denver’s surveys documented numerous post-Folsom occupations. Despite the early documentation of these sites, systematic...
Spaces of Survivance: Recovering Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Homesteads Misrecorded in Archaeological Literature (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historic Indigenous sites are often mislabeled in archaeological literature. As some scholars have explained, a common reason for this stems from the conventional practice of labeling cultural affiliation based on traditional artifact classifications. More recently, others have discussed how past preservation ethics within the cultural resource management...