The Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council this week awarded a total of $24.7 million in grants to state agencies for fiscal year 2020, which begins July 1.
The council approved $57,205 to the Arkansas Archeological Survey to produce a comprehensive inventory of artifacts from the Tom Jones site in the Rick Evans Grandview Prairie Wildlife Management Area. The Tom Jones site is a ca. A.D. 1400 Caddo civic-ceremonial mound site, which has been well protected and preserved. According to a journal article by Southeastern Archaeology, the site consists of one large temple mound and at least five small house mounds.
(Lockhart, Jami J. “Geophysical Survey and Spatial Organization at a Caddo Mound Site in Southwest Arkansas.” Southeastern Archaeology. Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 236-249. 2010)