{"id":94,"date":"2026-09-03T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:38:20","slug":"forging-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/forging-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging Ahead…"},"content":{"rendered":"

WE’RE BACK!<\/p>\n

We know we have been silent, but that does not mean work has stopped on this project. In fact, we have been busier than ever with the book and more. We have completed the narrative and script, have had numerous visits to get reference images, and now Sean Fitzgibbon is working diligently on the artwork. Dr. Ford even taught Sean some of what it is like to be an archeologist! And, Sean has been teaching Dr. Ford what it means to be a graphic novelist.<\/p>\n

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There will be more updates on this blog in the coming months outlining how we have worked on this project together and what we have learned from one another, hopefully to give others a bit of a guide showing how this can be done.<\/p>\n

In the months (and years) of silence on this blog, an extensive amount of work has happened behind the scenes on this project as well as on the archeology at Plum Bayou Mounds. Dr. Ford has now run two field projects in 2025 and 2026 at the site, educating volunteers and working alongside colleagues to learn more about the communities who built and gathered at this incredible place. That work is a constant, and more will come out on that soon. For now, here is a bit of information on some of the work they did the last two summers<\/a> and a bit of a teaser of the art Mr. Fitzgibbon is working on. You can sign up for his newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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WE’RE BACK! We know we have been silent, but that does not mean work has stopped on this project. In fact, we have been busier than ever with the book and more. We have completed the narrative and script, have had numerous visits to get reference images, and now Sean Fitzgibbon is working diligently on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archeology.uark.edu\/wfit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}