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Hampson Archeological Museum State Park is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Arkansas state park in Mississippi County, Arkansas in the United States. The museum contains a collection of archeological artifacts from the Nodena site , which is a former Native American village on the Mississippi River between 1400 and 1650.
Artifacts from this site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Nodena site is the type site for the Nodena phase , believed by many archaeologists to be the province of Pacaha visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542.
James Kelly Hampson (1877 – 8 October 1956) was the archaeologist that excavated and preserved the artifacts from the Nodena site and owner of the Hampson Plantation in Wilson, Arkansas. [1] [2] The Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas is named after James K. Hampson. The museum exhibits an archeological collection of early American ...
Nodena site - The Nodena site is the type site for the Nodena phase, located east of Wilson, Arkansas in Mississippi County on a meander bend of the Mississippi River.The Nodena site was discovered and first documented by Dr. James K. Hampson, archaeologist and owner of the plantation on which the site is located.
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Hampson Archeological Museum: Mississippi: 5 acres (2 ha) 1961: None: Museum displaying archeological artifacts from the Nodena site, an aboriginal village of the Nodena people dated 1400-1650 CE, and bones from the Island 35 Mastodon: Herman Davis: Mississippi: 1 acre (0.4 ha) 1953: None
This list of museums in Arkansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 1900, archaeologist James K. Hampson documented the discovery of skeletal remains of a mastodon on Island No. 35 of the Mississippi River, Tipton County, Tennessee. The site of the prehistoric find is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Reverie, Tennessee and 23 miles (37 km) south of Blytheville, Arkansas.