Archeological article publications by Archeologist Caleb Curren
This article is intended as an overview of how to use topographic and groundwater conditions as a guide to predicting the location and outflow potential…
In 2021 the University of West Alabama (UWA) publicly announced that: We are now certain that we have the province of Mabila … While the…
Two Spanish expeditions came deep into the interior of the current Southeastern United States during the 1500s; Hernando de Soto in 1539 and Tristan de…
It was hypothesized in the early 1980s that a recently reported aboriginal mound and village site (1Ds72) in Dallas County, Alabama, might be a contact…
On the eve of Alabama statehood, a large stone engraved with Latin inscriptions was found in the forest near Tuscaloosa.
Several years ago, prior to current laws regarding human remains, collectors at site 1Ds1 found a sixteenth century brass candlestick.
We went a long way. We went to a new world. The people were different. The plants and animals were different. We slept in hammocks…
We were searching for 16th century Spanish Contact sites in central Alabama.
Shells and bones… something we pick up today on the seashore or in a streambed.. We take them home and put them on a coffee…
An extraordinary artifact was found in a plowed field in a late Mississippian site (the King Site) in NW Georgia. It proved to be a Spanish…
The people who lived in the late Pleistocene (circa 10-20,000 years ago) in the deep South of the current USA have always been a bit…
A Summary Report of Archeological Excavations at the La Rua St. Historic Well. This phase of archeological field research at the historic La Rua St. well is…
Two very important archeological sites (Magnolia Ridge and Hickory Ridge) are located on a large peninsula extending into Perdido Bay in northwest Florida. Three phases of research have…
The Catfish Point Site is a prehistoric site located on an eroding, low terrace along the east shore of Perdido Bay. Phase I investigations consisted of…
Archeology of a Historic Indian Village on Pensacola Bay. A total of 716 historic aboriginal ceramic artifacts were recovered from the Fairpoint Site during Phase…
In 1905, C.B. Moore investigated various archeological sites along the Warrior River in west-central Alabama, one of which was known as the “mound near R.H. Foster Landing.” According…
This Bibb County, Alabama site was first reported in 1979 by a local person. It is located in the Cahaba River drainage in an area of approximately…
Site 1Ha19 is a Protohistoric Period village site in the Warrior River drainage of central Alabama. Based on radiocarbon dates and ceramics, the site was…
Site 1Tu4 is a large Protohistoric Period site on the Warrior River in central Alabama. Based on radiocarbon dates and ceramics, the site was primarily occupied during…
The Orline St. John was a side-wheel steamboat built in 1847 at Louisville, Kentucky. The packet boat ended its short life in 1850 on the…
A rare prehistoric site was excavated during the late 20th century in NW Florida.
Several important archaeological research projects concerning animal and human remains from the late Pleistocene, Paleo Indian Period were conducted during the late 20th Century under…
The recent discovery of a Spanish map dating to the 1500’s may shed light on one of the longest-lived mysteries in the archeology of the…