Department of

Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
Old Main 330, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-2508; Fax: (479) 575-6595
E-mail: chitt@uark.edu
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Dr. Sabo did his undergraduate and graduate work at Michigan State University, where he received a Ph.D. in anthropology. He has been a Research Station Archeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey and a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of Arkansas since 1979. An archeologist and ethnohistorian, Sabo centers his research centers on expressive culture (art, ritual) among Southeastern Indians from pre-contact to modern times, American Indian interactions with European explorers and colonists in southeastern North America, and the anthropology of history in modern American Indian communities. He also develops interactive, multimedia software for educational purposes, and at the Arkansas Archeological Survey, he is involved in the development of database-supported web applications that provide access to information on the state’s cultural and natural resources. His current research projects include a study of ancient rock art in the Ozarks and its relationship to the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, and the historical content of modern American Indian (Caddo, Quapaw, and Osage) ceremonies.

Recent Publications

"Rock Art and the Study of Ancient Religions in Southeastern North America" by George Sabo III. In /Religion, Archaeology, and the Material World/, edited by Lars Fogelin, pp. 279-296. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 36. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (2008).

Paths of Our Children: The Historic Indians of Arkansas, by George Sabo III. Arkansas Archeological Survey Popular Series No. 3, Fayetteville (1992, revised 2001).

The Quapaw Indians of Arkansas, 1673-1803, by George Sabo III. In Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan (pp. 178-203). University Press of Florida, Gainesville (2000).

First Encounters: Native Americans and Europeans in the Mississippi Valley: An Interactive CD-ROM, by George Sabo III, Linda C. Jones, and Luis F. Restrepo. Arkansas Archeological Survey, Fayetteville (2000).

Arkansas: A Narrative History, by Jeannie M. Whayne, Thomas A. DeBlack, George Sabo III, and Morris S. Arnold. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville (2002).

Caddo, by J. Daniel Rogers and George Sabo III. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast (edited by Raymond D. Fogelson (pp. 616-631). Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2004)

Dancing into the Past: Colonial Legacies in Modern Caddo Indian Ceremony. In A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest, edited by Patrick G. Williams, S. Charles Bolton, and Jeannie M. Whayne (pp. 149-168). The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville (2005).

Rock Art in Arkansas, edited by George Sabo III and Deborah L. Sabo. Arkansas Archeological Survey Popular Series No. 5, Fayetteville, AR (2005).

Exploring the Potential of Web-Based Social Process Experiential Simulations, by Ann Shortridge and George Sabo III. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2005) 14(4): 375-390.

Mortuary Ritual and Winter Solstice Imagery of the Harlan-Style Charnel House, by Marvin Kay and George Sabo III. Southeastern Archaeology Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 2006), pp. 29-47.