Dr. Kathy H. Cande This is Me

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1. 1. www.couriernews.com

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   The program, "Rediscovering Davidsonville" will be by Kathy Cande, a project archeologist with the Sponsored Research Program of the Arkansas Archeological Survey.

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   On Tuesday, March 4, Dr. Kathleen Cande, project archeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, will present a program entitled "Rediscovering Davidsonville: Arkansas' Oldest County Seat."

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   Published on: 11/7/2005   Last Visited: 11/7/2005

   "This is the most exciting project I've ever worked on," said Kathleen Cande, an archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, who has been conducting excavations across the state for more than 20 years.
   
   "This is really bringing it alive for me ; this is exciting for the state."
   
   Funded by grants from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Commission, Cande and her team of archaeologists began digging at Old Davidsonville State Park in April 2004.They returned in October and, over the past two weeks, have located the foundation and the four corners of a two-story courthouse that occupied the center of the town square.
   
   They used an old plat map to find the courthouse ; an earlier excavation by other archaeologists who used the same map in 1979 just missed locating a corner of the edifice.
   
   Cande also employed what she called "archaeologist's intuition" in finding what she believed was the site of an old tavern, or inn, about 75 yards west of the courthouse.
   
   "We used the plat maps and tried to figure where the old roads were laid out," she said.
   
   Underneath the dirt and clay, archaeologists have retrieved Spanish and U. S. silver coins, dice made from bone and wood, and small metal mouth harps.They also have unearthed plates, saucers, cups, silverware, bronze candleholders, nails and buttons.
   
   The findings shed new light on one of Arkansas' first settlements, Cande said.
   
   "This wasn't hand-to-mouth," Cande said of the settlers' existence."They were well-situated."
   
   Many of the patterns found on the plates discovered at Old Davidsonville are similar to those on plates found by archaeologists in Brownsville, Ill., Cande said.She surmised that settlers carried the dishware from England to Virginia in the 1700 s, and then traveled west.
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   When court was in session, 200 to 300 people probably traveled to Davidsonville and stayed there for days, Cande said.
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   It's the lack of intrusions that make the area a treasure trove of discoveries, Cande said.
   
   Based on their findings, Cande believes those who lived in Davidsonville probably spent their evenings eating pork and chicken in the tavern, as well as playing gambling games with dice.
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   "We can go a long way with filling in what was going on here in this part of the state," Cande said.