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The culture of Arkansas is a subculture of the Southern United States that has come from blending heavy amounts of various European settlers' cultures with the cultures of African slaves and Native Americans. Southern culture remains prominent in the rural Arkansas delta and south Arkansas. Arkansans share a history with the other southern ...
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
Arkansas. Arkansas (/ ˈɑːrkənsɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw[c]) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. [9][10] It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language ...
Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) Encyclopedia of Arkansas is a web -based encyclopedia of the U.S. state of Arkansas, described by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as "a free, authoritative source of information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Arkansas." [1]
Plum Bayou culture. Toltec Mounds, the largest known Plum Bayou site. Plum Bayou culture is a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that lived in what is now east-central Arkansas from 650–1050 CE, [1] a time known as the Late Woodland Period. Archaeologists defined the culture based on the Toltec Mounds site [2] and named it for a local ...
Little Rock (Quapaw: I’i-zhinka, lit. 'Little rock'[3]) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city's population was 202,591 as of the 2020 census. [4] The six-county Little Rock metropolitan area is the 81st-most populous in the United States with 748,031 residents according to the 2020 census.
Arkansas Delta. Coordinates: 35°00′N 90°30′W. Top: Map of Arkansas with traditional delta counties highlighted in red. Other counties sometimes referred to as delta counties are highlighted in pink. Bottom: The Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena is operated by the Department of Arkansas Heritage to preserve and interpret the ...
The Arkansas Portal. Arkansas (/ ˈɑːrkənsɔː / ⓘ AR-kən-saw) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma to the west. Its name derives from the Osage language ...