Emily Warner, right, with the USA Center for Archaeological Studies, and Thomas Grace, with Wiregrass Archaeological Consulting, bisect a feature in the soil at a site that is along the route for a proposed Mobile Bay bridge.

Center for Archaeological Studies

The Center for Archaeological Studies conducts archaeological research, teaching, and public service in the north-central Gulf Coast region. The Center promotes the archaeological study and appreciation of the region's prehistoric and historic past; disseminates to the public information about the region's archaeology; and preserves archaeological evidence of the region's past for future study, use, and enjoyment. The Center involves students in research projects, providing hands-on experience in archaeology.

The Center's archaeologists have carried out over 1,000 survey and excavation projects during the last thirty years. Ground-breaking research at sites like Old Mobile and Port Dauphin has revealed much about Alabama's earliest colonial history. The rapid pace of modern development has also led us to sites like Bottle Creek, the Exploreum, and Dog River Bridge, where Indigenous People, French, British, Spanish, and Early American settlers left their marks on the landscape.


 

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Archaeology in Action: The Old Water Street Site
Archaeology in Action: The Old Water Street Site
Thursday - September 21, 2023
This site is bound by Madison, Old South Water, South Royal, and Canal Streets, and had some of the most intact structural remains of the entire project.
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Why Oral History?
Why Oral History?
Friday - September 8, 2023
Oral history is documentation, true, but it is also a way of preserving life and sustaining community.
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Archaeology in Action: The Palmetto Street Site
Archaeology in Action: The Palmetto Street Site
Wednesday - August 30, 2023
We excavated the Palmetto Street Site, or 1MB412, in 2022-2023 as part of the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project
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