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Trubitt Recent Publications
Reporting Results from the AAS/HSU Research Station
Research conducted by archeologists at the Arkansas Archeological Survey's HSU Research Station in Arkadelphia is reported through public talks, presentations at professional conferences, and articles intended for general audiences and for professional archeologists. Here are some recent research publications.
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Research conducted by archeologists at the Arkansas Archeological Survey's HSU Research Station in Arkadelphia is reported through public talks, presentations at professional conferences, and articles intended for general audiences and for professional archeologists. Here are some recent research publications.
Word cloud created using text from recent writing and wordle.net.
Research conducted by archeologists at the Arkansas Archeological Survey's HSU Research Station in Arkadelphia is reported through public talks, presentations at professional conferences, and articles intended for general audiences and for professional archeologists. Here are some recent research publications.
Word cloud created using text from recent writing and wordle.net.


Several recent publications report results from the "Archaic Arkansas" project and on novaculite tool production:
- A new website from the Arkansas Archeological Survey, "Arkansas Novaculite: A Virtual Comparative Collection," is available at http://arkarcheology.uark.edu/novaculite/index.html .
- Trubitt, Mary Beth and Vanessa N. Hanvey 2011 "Reconstructing the Novaculite Reduction Sequence at Jones Mill, Arkansas." A poster presented at the 68th Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November 2-5, 2011, Jacksonville, Florida.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2011 “Ancient Indian Foodways: A View from the Jones Mill Archeological Site.” The Record (journal of the Garland County Historical Society) 52:127-137.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2011 “Another Archaic Period Date from Jones Mill.” Field Notes (Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society) 358:5-6.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth, Kathryn Parker, and Lucretia Kelly 2011 “Reconstructing Ancient Foodways at the Jones Mill Site (3HS28), Hot Spring County, Arkansas.” Caddo Archeology Journal 21:43-70.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2009 "Investigating Middle Archaic at the Jones Mill Site." The Arkansas Archeologist (Bulletin of the Arkansas Archeological Society) 48:71-84.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2007 "The Organization of Novaculite Tool Production: Quarry-Workshop Debitage Comparisons." Caddo Archeology Journal 16:71-89.
- for a general article on the Archaic period, see http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=542 in The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
Caddo archeology is an on-going research interest here at the AAS/HSU station:
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2012 "A Fresh Look at the Hedges Site." Field Notes (Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society) 367:8-12.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2012 "Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: The Borderlands Project and the Hughes Site." In The Archaeology of the Caddo, edited by T. K. Perttula and C. P. Walker, pp. 288-312. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Perttula, Timothy K., Mary Beth Trubitt, and Jeffrey S. Girard 2011 "The Use of Shell-Tempered Pottery in the Caddo Area of the Southeastern United States." Southeastern Archaeology 30(2):242-267.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2010 "Two Shell Gorgets from Southwest Arkansas." Caddo Archeology Journal 20:129-137.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2009 "Burning and Burying Buildings: Exploring Variation in Caddo Architecture in Southwest Arkansas." Southeastern Archaeology 28(2):233-247.

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Dr. Trubitt continues to present and publish on Mississippian period research and the Cahokia Palisade Project:
- Trubitt, Mary Beth and Lucretia Kelly 2012 "Cahokia Palisade Project: Faunal Analysis from Selected Features." Illinois Antiquity 47(4):3-11.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2009 "The Origin, Organization, and Demise of Midwest Chiefdoms." In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, Midwest and Great Plains/Rocky Mountains, edited by F. P. McManamon, pp. 43-45. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.
- Moore, Michael C., Emanuel Breitburg, Kevin E. Smith, and Mary Beth Trubitt 2006 "One Hundred Years of Archaeology at Gordontown: A Fortified Mississippian Town in Middle Tennessee." Southeastern Archaeology 25(1):89-109.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth 2005 "Crafting Marine Shell Prestige Goods at Cahokia." North American Archaeologist 26(3):249-266.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth D. 2003 "Mississippian Period Warfare and Palisade Construction at Cahokia." In Theory, Method, and Practice in Modern Archaeology, edited by R. J. Jeske and D. K. Charles, pp. 149-162. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut.
- Trubitt, Mary Beth D. 2003 "The Production and Exchange of Marine Shell Prestige Goods." Journal of Archaeological Research 11(3):243-277.
Web page last updated 12 February 2013. Web page contact: M. B. Trubitt, trubitm@hsu.edu .