John Moselage

John Moselage is identified in available records as both a writer and an archaeologist. He is best known for The Lawhorn Site, a report published in The Missouri Archaeologist in 1962 and later made widely available through Project Gutenberg.

The strongest details that can be confirmed about his life come through his work itself. A preface by archaeologist Carl H. Chapman praises Moselage’s persistence and presents the report as an impressive example of what a dedicated amateur archaeologist could accomplish. Other archaeological records also connect him with excavations at the Lawhorn Site in Arkansas during the late 1950s.

Because biographical information about him is scarce in the sources that could be verified here, a full personal sketch is hard to give with confidence. What does come through clearly is his serious interest in archaeology and his contribution to documenting an important site in the American South.