It's easy to neglect the physical legacy of communities and cultures when looking for source material for your paper. However, depending on the time period your research addresses, artifacts and archaeological reports may provide important insights.

Try searching the catalog under the subject "excavations, archaeology--arkansas" to browse through published books and reports in our collections.

Highlights of the museum include a meteor that fell to earth near Fayetteville in 1934, preserved animal skins, a 185-million-year-old crocodilian specimen, quartz and geology specimens, Native American pottery and artifacts, and Razorback memorabilia. The University of Arkansas Museum traces its beginnings to an early geology teaching collection, which is documented to 1873. The collection facility is open by appointment for individuals or groups, and University faculty may request loans of specimens for their classes or arrange to bring their classes to the museum facility for a visit. Specimens and documentation are available for comparative and research purposes by faculty, qualified students and visiting scholars.