Marvin Jeter

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
School of Social Sciences
University of Arkansas at Monticello
PO Box 3619, UAM
Monticello, AR 71656
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Present Position: UAM Research Station Archeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey, Monticello, Arkansas. My research territory in southeast Arkansas includes part of the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) and the lowermost Arkansas River Valley.

Education: Ph.D. in Archeology and Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1977. Previous degrees from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa (B.A., Journalism, 1959) and U. of Alabama in Birmingham (B.A., Anthropology, 1973).

Research Locations: Mainly in the U.S. “Sun Belt” states: Arkansas (where I have been for most of the time since 1978), Alabama, and Arizona; also in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Illinois.

Major Research Interests: The Protohistoric period of beginning contacts between Native Americans and Europeans (ca. 1500 – 1700 A.D. in these latitudes); the Late Prehistoric periods (Woodland, Mississippian; essentially no Paleo-Indian work, not much Archaic except Late Archaic – Poverty Point, which is in the neighborhood); History of Archeology; selected aspects of African-American culture and history.

Selected Publications (sometimes-lengthy titles reduced to summaries of subject matter, and publication details omitted; full citations available if needed):

1973 – Report: Archeological survey along the Alabama River Valley, east of Selma.
1974 – Appendix: Analysis of Hohokam flaked stone artifacts from the Papagueria, southeast Arizona.
1977 – Article on Late Woodland chronology and change in central Alabama.
1977 – Report (and Dissertation): Archeology in Copper Basin, Prescott region, west-central Arizona.
1978 – Report: Archeology in Tonto Basin, east-central Arizona.
1979 – Lead Author: Article on The Kelley-Grimes Mississippian burial site, southeast Arkansas.
1980 – Chapter: Analysis of Anasazi flaked stone artifacts from sites near Springerville, eastern Arizona.
1982 – Volume Co-Editor/Contributor: “Arkansas Archeology in Review.”
1984 – Article: Mound volumes, energy, and Copena culture burial practices in northern Alabama.
1985 – Editor: Bulletin and Abstracts, Southeastern Archeological Conference annual meeting, Birmingham, AL.
1986 – Chapter: Protohistoric Tunican Indians west of the Mississippi.
1986 – Review: Smithsonian reprint of the Cyrus Thomas (1894) “Mound Survey” final report.
1986 – Review: Reports on Natchez Indian archeology and Mississippi Choctaw archeology.
1986 – Lead Author: Report on the lost French Fort de Mississippi (1700-1707), below New Orleans.
1988 – Editor: Report on the Burris Mississippian site in northeast Arkansas.
1989 – Chapter: Methods of relating old collections to current research.
1989 – Lead Author: Overview of archeology and bioanthropology of the LMV and Trans-Mississippi South.
1990 – Book: Edward Palmer’s Arkansas Mounds (the Smithsonian “Mound Survey” project, 1881-94).*
1990 – Article on Palmer’s work in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
1990 – Lead Author: The Goldsmith Oliver protohistoric site on the Arkansas River at Little Rock.
1990 – Review of Tunica Archeology.
1991 – Co-Author: Article on Late Archaic and Poverty Point culture sites in southeast Arkansas.
1992 – Editor: Bulletin and Abstracts, Southeastern Archeological Conference annual meeting, Little Rock, AR.
1993 – Chapter on H. J. Lewis, Palmer’s Indian mound artist and later (in Indiana) the first Black political cartoonist.
1993 – Review of two books on French Colonial archeology.
1994 – Co-Author: Article on excavations at the late prehistoric Boydell Mound A, southeast Arkansas.
1994 – Co-Author: Article on the Lake Enterprise Mound (Poverty Point culture), southeast Arkansas.
1994 – Lead Author: Articles on Poverty Point lithic extraction and exchange in Alabama and Arkansas.
1994 – Review of reprint of Archeology of Mississippi (orig. 1926).
1996 – Review of Archeology of the Southeastern United States.
1999 – Review Article: From morality to politics in Smithsonian anthropology and museology.
1999 – Co-Editor: Arkansas Archeology.
1999 – Lead Author: Chapter on prehistory of the Saline River Valley, central to southeast Arkansas.
2000 – Review of two books on James A. Ford and the growth of Americanist archeology.
2000 – Chapter with discussant remarks on archeology of the Prescott region, Arizona.
2001 – Chapter on Victorian pioneers in Mid-South archeology.
2002 – Chapter: From prehistory through protohistory to ethnohistory in the LMV.
2003 – Revew of a volume comparing Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. prehistory.
2003 – Co-Editor and Contributor: The Woodland-Mississippian transition in the Mid-South.
2004 – Co-Author of articles on “Small Tribes” in the Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast.
2007 – Chapter on “The outer [northern] limits of Plaquemine culture” in the LMV.
2007 – Lead Author, on-line (Common-Place) article, “H. J. Lewis: Free Man and Freeman Artist.”
In press (2008) – Two chapters, Introduction and Discussant Remarks, in a volume on the archeology of west-central Arizona.
In press (2008) – Lead author of article on southerly Plum Bayou vs. northerly Coles Creek culture elements in the LMV.
In press (2008 ) – Chapter on the LMV in a U. of Nebraska Press book on the Indian slave trade.
In prep (2008?) – Chapter on the Oliver site (Mississippi) as seen from Arkansas, the Southeast, and Southwest.
In prep – Editor of volume on the Mangum “Southern Cult” Plaquemine site in SW Mississippi.
In prep – Editor/Author of major volume on excavations at the Taylor Mounds site, southeast Arkansas.
In prep – Reports & articles on the Eagle Lake Mounds, Lake Enterprise Mound, Saline-Fifteen site, SE Arkansas.
In prep – Article on Mosaic Templars of America tombstones (1913-29) and their symbolism.

* – The 1990 Palmer book won a Choice award as one of the best Anthropology/Archeology books of the year.