Mary Beth Trubitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 300203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Beth Trubitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Trubitt |
| SIGNATURE | TRUBITT M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arkansas Archeological Survey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1824-5423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Reviewed by: The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana by Jeffrey S. Girard Mary Beth Trubitt The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana. By Jeffrey S. Girard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 130. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-6702-1.) In The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana, arc…
Update on Recent Activities at the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station in Arkadelphia
The Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station (ARAS/HSU) has been active with several small field projects this year, as well as on-going work in the lab. In February and March 2016, Mary Beth Trubitt and Katie Leslie advised Hot Springs National Park personnel on placement of four soil moisture monitors so as to avoid cultural features at 3GA22, a significant novaculite quarry with prehistoric and historic compo…
Effigy Pottery in the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection
As part of on-going documentation of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection, 31 ceramic effigy vessels or vessel fragments are described. Most were dug by Thomas and Charlotte Hodges or Vere Huddleston in the 1930s-1940s from sites in the Middle Ouachita archeological region of southwest Arkansas. By documenting these vessels and what is known of their archeological contexts, we can better employ them in future analyses of regional …
Ouachita Mountains Foodways
New excavations in the Ouachita National Forest in west-central Arkansas, co-directed by Meeks Etchieson and Mary Beth Trubitt, are resulting in significant information about foodways of ancestral Caddo Indians living in the Ouachita Mountains region. This work has focused on the Dragover site (3MN298), located on a floodplain of the upper Ouachita River. Artifacts from this extensive archeological site indicate use from about 6000 B.C. to the A.…
Revisiting a Historic Manuscript
Vere L. Huddleston was one of several amateur archaeologists who excavated Caddo sites in Clark County, Arkansas, during the 1930s and 1940s. Huddleston took better notes about the sites and contexts of his finds than many of his contemporaries. His large collection of artifacts is now part of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection in Arkadelphia. A manuscript on his excavations at the East Place – the largest Caddo mound group in C…
Caddo Connections
Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and across space within the Caddo Area. They explore how and why this diversity developed, consider what allowed it to stabilize during the Mississippian period,…
Taking it to the River
Arkansas Novaculite, outcropping on ridge tops in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, was a critical resource for Indians living in both mountains and coastal plains. We review recent archaeological research on novaculite quarries and the movement of toolstone away from outcrops, especially during the Middle and Late Archaic Period (6,100-650 BC). Toolstone procurement was intensive and extensive, as shown through mapping of quarry f…
Reconstructing Ancient Foodways at the Jones Mill Site (3HS28), Hot Spring County, Arkansas
Analyses of botanical and faunal samples and a new radiocarbon date provide a detailed picture of Indian foodways at the Jones Mill site on the Ouachita River in Arkansas. Hunting, plant processing, and fishing with nets is seen from Middle Archaic artifacts and features. Burned hickory nutshell found among clusters of fire-cracked rock shows the importance of nut masts as food between 6000-4300 B.C. By 1450 A.D., a more substantial community of …
The Use of Shell-Tempered Pottery in the Caddo Area of the Southeastern United States
Freshwater mussel shell was used as a temper in the manufacture of ceramic vessels by potters in the Caddo area of the southeastern United States after ca. A.D. 1300. This was at least one or two centuries after it became the dominant temper used by aboriginal groups in much of the Eastern Woodlands but generally contemporaneous with shelltempered usage in parts of the Southern Plains. The introduction of shell temper was variable across the Cadd…
Mapping a Novaculite Quarry in Hot Springs National Park
Novaculite quarries in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma were created through largescale extraction of lithic raw materials, used for stone tools by Caddos and other Native Americans over the past 11,000 years and in recent centuries by Euro-Americans for whetstones. Quarry sites are characterized by surface features like large pits. trenches, battered boulders, and debris piles. This article summarizes the results of an Arkansas Ar…
Crafting Marine Shell Prestige Goods at Cahokia
Acquired from coasts and exchanged inland across North America, marine shell was an important raw material for making prestige goods, valued objects that “materialized” relationships between individuals or groups. Of interest here is how marine shell prestige goods production and exchange was organized, including the social identities of crafters and consumers. At Cahokia, shell working was associated with higher-status households, especially in …
The Production and Exchange of Marine Shell Prestige Goods
The Caddo Indian Burial Ground (3MN386), Norman, Arkansas
Human burials were exposed accidentally during construction of a city sewer treatment plant in Norman, Arkansas, in October 1988. Archeological salvage excavations in the days following, directed by Ann Early of the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson Research Station, identified two burials, a small cluster of residential features, and artifacts dating from the Archaic through Caddo periods. After discussions between the various agencies a…
Grit-Tempered
A group biography of Southeast archaeology's pioneering women, whose careers spanned the decades between 1920-1960, when many got work as excavators on WPA crews. Inspiring tales of innovative lab work, adventurous fieldwork
Mound Building and Prestige Goods Exchange
I examine the shift, at about A.D. 1200 in the Mississippi River Valley Cahokia polity, from emphasizing the status and prestige of communal groups through monumental constructions to displaying and maintaining the status and prestige of individual elites using prestige goods. I interpret this transformation as a change from a 'corporate' to a 'network' leadership strategy. Archaeologically, these alternative strategies show up as differences in …
Mound Building and Prestige Goods Exchange
I examine the shift, at about A.D. 1200 in the Mississippi River Valley Cahokia polity, from emphasizing the status and prestige of communal groups through monumental constructions to displaying and maintaining the status and prestige of individual elites using prestige goods. I interpret this transformation as a change from a 'corporate' to a 'network' leadership strategy. Archaeologically, these alternative strategies show up as differences in …
The Use of Shell-Tempered Pottery in the Caddo Area of the Southeastern United States
Freshwater mussel shell was used as a temper in the manufacture of ceramic vessels by potters in the Caddo area of the southeastern United States after ca. A.D. 1300. This was at least one or two centuries after it became the dominant temper used by aboriginal groups in much of the Eastern Woodlands but generally contemporaneous with shelltempered usage in parts of the Southern Plains. The introduction of shell temper was variable across the Cadd…
Grit-Tempered
A group biography of Southeast archaeology's pioneering women, whose careers spanned the decades between 1920-1960, when many got work as excavators on WPA crews. Inspiring tales of innovative lab work, adventurous fieldwork
Crafting Marine Shell Prestige Goods at Cahokia
Acquired from coasts and exchanged inland across North America, marine shell was an important raw material for making prestige goods, valued objects that “materialized” relationships between individuals or groups. Of interest here is how marine shell prestige goods production and exchange was organized, including the social identities of crafters and consumers. At Cahokia, shell working was associated with higher-status households, especially in …
Revisiting a Historic Manuscript
Vere L. Huddleston was one of several amateur archaeologists who excavated Caddo sites in Clark County, Arkansas, during the 1930s and 1940s. Huddleston took better notes about the sites and contexts of his finds than many of his contemporaries. His large collection of artifacts is now part of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection in Arkadelphia. A manuscript on his excavations at the East Place – the largest Caddo mound group in C…
Taking it to the River
Arkansas Novaculite, outcropping on ridge tops in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, was a critical resource for Indians living in both mountains and coastal plains. We review recent archaeological research on novaculite quarries and the movement of toolstone away from outcrops, especially during the Middle and Late Archaic Period (6,100-650 BC). Toolstone procurement was intensive and extensive, as shown through mapping of quarry f…
Update on Recent Activities at the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station in Arkadelphia
The Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station (ARAS/HSU) has been active with several small field projects this year, as well as on-going work in the lab. In February and March 2016, Mary Beth Trubitt and Katie Leslie advised Hot Springs National Park personnel on placement of four soil moisture monitors so as to avoid cultural features at 3GA22, a significant novaculite quarry with prehistoric and historic compo…
Ouachita Mountains Foodways
New excavations in the Ouachita National Forest in west-central Arkansas, co-directed by Meeks Etchieson and Mary Beth Trubitt, are resulting in significant information about foodways of ancestral Caddo Indians living in the Ouachita Mountains region. This work has focused on the Dragover site (3MN298), located on a floodplain of the upper Ouachita River. Artifacts from this extensive archeological site indicate use from about 6000 B.C. to the A.…
Caddo Connections
Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and across space within the Caddo Area. They explore how and why this diversity developed, consider what allowed it to stabilize during the Mississippian period,…
Reconstructing Ancient Foodways at the Jones Mill Site (3HS28), Hot Spring County, Arkansas
Analyses of botanical and faunal samples and a new radiocarbon date provide a detailed picture of Indian foodways at the Jones Mill site on the Ouachita River in Arkansas. Hunting, plant processing, and fishing with nets is seen from Middle Archaic artifacts and features. Burned hickory nutshell found among clusters of fire-cracked rock shows the importance of nut masts as food between 6000-4300 B.C. By 1450 A.D., a more substantial community of …
Mapping a Novaculite Quarry in Hot Springs National Park
Novaculite quarries in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma were created through largescale extraction of lithic raw materials, used for stone tools by Caddos and other Native Americans over the past 11,000 years and in recent centuries by Euro-Americans for whetstones. Quarry sites are characterized by surface features like large pits. trenches, battered boulders, and debris piles. This article summarizes the results of an Arkansas Ar…
Grit-Tempered
A group biography of Southeast archaeology's pioneering women, whose careers spanned the decades between 1920-1960, when many got work as excavators on WPA crews. Inspiring tales of innovative lab work, adventurous fieldwork
Mound Building and Prestige Goods Exchange
I examine the shift, at about A.D. 1200 in the Mississippi River Valley Cahokia polity, from emphasizing the status and prestige of communal groups through monumental constructions to displaying and maintaining the status and prestige of individual elites using prestige goods. I interpret this transformation as a change from a 'corporate' to a 'network' leadership strategy. Archaeologically, these alternative strategies show up as differences in …
The Production and Exchange of Marine Shell Prestige Goods
The Caddo Indian Burial Ground (3MN386), Norman, Arkansas
Human burials were exposed accidentally during construction of a city sewer treatment plant in Norman, Arkansas, in October 1988. Archeological salvage excavations in the days following, directed by Ann Early of the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson Research Station, identified two burials, a small cluster of residential features, and artifacts dating from the Archaic through Caddo periods. After discussions between the various agencies a…
Mapping a Novaculite Quarry in Hot Springs National Park
Novaculite quarries in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma were created through largescale extraction of lithic raw materials, used for stone tools by Caddos and other Native Americans over the past 11,000 years and in recent centuries by Euro-Americans for whetstones. Quarry sites are characterized by surface features like large pits. trenches, battered boulders, and debris piles. This article summarizes the results of an Arkansas Ar…
Crafting Marine Shell Prestige Goods at Cahokia
Acquired from coasts and exchanged inland across North America, marine shell was an important raw material for making prestige goods, valued objects that “materialized” relationships between individuals or groups. Of interest here is how marine shell prestige goods production and exchange was organized, including the social identities of crafters and consumers. At Cahokia, shell working was associated with higher-status households, especially in …
Reconstructing Ancient Foodways at the Jones Mill Site (3HS28), Hot Spring County, Arkansas
Analyses of botanical and faunal samples and a new radiocarbon date provide a detailed picture of Indian foodways at the Jones Mill site on the Ouachita River in Arkansas. Hunting, plant processing, and fishing with nets is seen from Middle Archaic artifacts and features. Burned hickory nutshell found among clusters of fire-cracked rock shows the importance of nut masts as food between 6000-4300 B.C. By 1450 A.D., a more substantial community of …
The Use of Shell-Tempered Pottery in the Caddo Area of the Southeastern United States
Freshwater mussel shell was used as a temper in the manufacture of ceramic vessels by potters in the Caddo area of the southeastern United States after ca. A.D. 1300. This was at least one or two centuries after it became the dominant temper used by aboriginal groups in much of the Eastern Woodlands but generally contemporaneous with shelltempered usage in parts of the Southern Plains. The introduction of shell temper was variable across the Cadd…
Taking it to the River
Arkansas Novaculite, outcropping on ridge tops in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, was a critical resource for Indians living in both mountains and coastal plains. We review recent archaeological research on novaculite quarries and the movement of toolstone away from outcrops, especially during the Middle and Late Archaic Period (6,100-650 BC). Toolstone procurement was intensive and extensive, as shown through mapping of quarry f…
Caddo Connections
Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and across space within the Caddo Area. They explore how and why this diversity developed, consider what allowed it to stabilize during the Mississippian period,…
Revisiting a Historic Manuscript
Vere L. Huddleston was one of several amateur archaeologists who excavated Caddo sites in Clark County, Arkansas, during the 1930s and 1940s. Huddleston took better notes about the sites and contexts of his finds than many of his contemporaries. His large collection of artifacts is now part of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection in Arkadelphia. A manuscript on his excavations at the East Place – the largest Caddo mound group in C…
Ouachita Mountains Foodways
New excavations in the Ouachita National Forest in west-central Arkansas, co-directed by Meeks Etchieson and Mary Beth Trubitt, are resulting in significant information about foodways of ancestral Caddo Indians living in the Ouachita Mountains region. This work has focused on the Dragover site (3MN298), located on a floodplain of the upper Ouachita River. Artifacts from this extensive archeological site indicate use from about 6000 B.C. to the A.…
Update on Recent Activities at the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station in Arkadelphia
The Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Henderson State University Research Station (ARAS/HSU) has been active with several small field projects this year, as well as on-going work in the lab. In February and March 2016, Mary Beth Trubitt and Katie Leslie advised Hot Springs National Park personnel on placement of four soil moisture monitors so as to avoid cultural features at 3GA22, a significant novaculite quarry with prehistoric and historic compo…
Effigy Pottery in the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection
As part of on-going documentation of the Joint Educational Consortium’s Hodges Collection, 31 ceramic effigy vessels or vessel fragments are described. Most were dug by Thomas and Charlotte Hodges or Vere Huddleston in the 1930s-1940s from sites in the Middle Ouachita archeological region of southwest Arkansas. By documenting these vessels and what is known of their archeological contexts, we can better employ them in future analyses of regional …
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Reviewed by: The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana by Jeffrey S. Girard Mary Beth Trubitt The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana. By Jeffrey S. Girard. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 130. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8071-6702-1.) In The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana, arc…
Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · History (8 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works)