Mission Statement

The mission of the Cobb Institute at Mississippi State University is to provide sponsorship and support for research, outreach and instructional programs related to the Middle Eastern origins of Western Civilization and to the Indians of the South, particularly in Mississippi.  Its efforts are to be directed to "the specific purposes of archaeological research, study, travel, excavations and explorations, publications and reports, and other similar uses or purposes." (Letter from Cully A. Cobb to President William Giles July 24, 1972)

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Cobb bone tube research published in PEQ

Cobb research affiliates, Dr. Geoffrey Ludvik and Kara Larson, and Cobb archaeologist Derek Anderson have published an article, “Decorated Bone Tube M

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Hardin announced as AMEC department head

Congratulations to Dr. Jimmy Hardin, who is now pulling double duty as both Director of the Cobb, and as AMEC department head! The MSU press release i

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Fieldwork in Morocco

Dr. Shane Miller, Jesse Weaver, and Bailey Stephenson are in Morocco surveying the area around Bizmoune Cave for Middle and Late Stone Age archaeologi

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