Ann Early
Graduating class: 1963
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2002
Hall of Fame Category: Lifetime Achievement
Currently Arkansas State Archeologist and an Associate Professor of Anthropology al the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville where she lives, Ann has been an archeologist wi1h the Arkansas Archeological Survey since 1972. She oversees state-wide public education and outreach programs and is liaison between the survey and other state and federal agencies and organizations, particularly in the areas of archeological site preservation and data management.
Ann also continues to do research and she has produced twelve books or book chapters and thirty articles in journals, mainly on prehistoric settlements and people of Arkansas. In 1999 she helped excavate an early Christian church and settlement in northern Jordan near the border with Syria.
Most of her research. however, has been in Arkansas and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a regular lecturer and workshop instructor to public and professional audiences on subjects relating to southeastern Indians, archeology, pre-history, human ecology, and heritage preservation.
Ann is currently a governor's appointee to the Arkansas State Review Committee for Historic Preservation, President of the Arkansas Historical Association, Executive Committee member of the Southeastern Archeological Conference, and editor to the journal Caddoan Archeology.
She is past-president of the Historical Preservation Alliance of Arkansas, past-national chair of the Committee on Public Archeology of the Society for American Archeology, and vice chair of the ecosystem Management Advisory Committee, Ouachita National Forest.