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Arkansas County, Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze, which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw. [1] Arkansas River; Mississippi County, Arkansas. Mississippi River; Ouachita County, Arkansas – named after the Ouachita people. Village of Ouachita; Lake Ouachita; Ouachita River; Ouachita Mountains
The Lake Catherine Quarry is a prehistoric stone quarry in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. The site was used as a source of black novaculite, a relatively rare form of chert. Evidence of Native American quarrying activity at the site includes quarry pits, spoil piles, and a scattered talus slope of rejected materials.
The people who built the mounds at Plum Bayou Mounds had a culture distinct from other contemporary Native American groups in the Mississippi Valley. Plum Bayou sites are found throughout the White River and Arkansas River floodplains of central and eastern Arkansas, but are also found as far west as the eastern Ozark Mountains. Plum Bayou ...
Parkin Archeological State Park, also known as Parkin Indian Mound, is an archeological site and state park in Parkin, Cross County, Arkansas. Around 1350–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed at the site, at the confluence of the St. Francis and Tyronza rivers. Artifacts from this site are on
Pages in category "Arkansas placenames of Native American origin" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Baytown Site is a Pre-Columbian Native American archaeological site located on the White River at Indian Bay, in Monroe County, Arkansas.It was first inhabited by peoples of the Baytown culture (300 to 700 CE) and later briefly by peoples of the Plum Bayou culture (650 to 1050 CE), [2] in a time known as the Late Woodland period.
The Parkin Indian Mound, the type site for the Parkin phase, is the site of another Late Mississippian village located in Parkin, Arkansas, about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Wilson. In the early 1540s, the Spanish Hernando de Soto Expedition is believed to have visited several sites in the Nodena phase, which is usually identified as the ...
The Cooper's Bluff Site is a prehistoric panel of pictographs (painted rock art) in Searcy County, Arkansas. Located under a sheltering overhang, it measures about 4.5 by 1.8 metres (14.8 ft × 5.9 ft), and is accompanied by a scatter of prehistoric Native American artifacts. It is estimated to have been painted about 1500 CE. [2]