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Vol. 39, No. 1
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2011-Spring |
Table of Contents coming soon; issue has been mailed to SGA members |
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Vol. 38, No. 2
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2010-Fall |
Editor’s Introduction Guest Editor’s Introduction The Life and Work of Joseph Ralston Caldwell (1916–1973) How New is My Archaeology: Interacting with Joseph Caldwell Primary Forest Efficiency in the Eastern Woodlands of North America The Importance of Woodstock Complicated Stamped Ceramics Fifty Years after Caldwell The Deptford Site: Reconfigured and Revisited “Gulfization” Revisited: Household Change in the Late Woodland Period at Kolomoki (9ER1) My Memories of Joe Caldwell Personal Reflections on Graduate Study with Joseph Caldwell Joseph Caldwell: A Brief Remembrance Dr. Joseph Caldwell’s Last Year Frank Theodore Schnell, Jr. (1940-2010) Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut, by Paul R. Williams |
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Vol. 38, No. 1
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2010-Spring |
Editor’s Introduction Reconstructing the Life Histories of Bolen Hafted Bifaces from a North Florida Archaeological Site An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Appraisal of a Piled Stone Feature Complex in the Mountains of North Georgia Historic Site Methodology on the Georgia Piedmont: Case Studies from the Oconee National Forest New Data on the Number and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in Georgia by Time and Space Samuel J. Lawson III (1951–2009) The Archaeology of Regions: A Case for Full Coverage Survey, edited by Suzanne K. Fish and Stephen A. Kowalewski Bilbo (9CH4) and Delta (38JA23): Late Archaic and Early Woodland Shell Mounds at the Mouth of the Savannah River, by Morgan R. Crook, Jr. From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indiginous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400-1700), edited by Kathleen Deagan and David Hurst Thomas |
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Vol. 37, No. 2
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2009-Fall |
Editor’s Introduction Seventy Years of Research of Architecture at a Muscogee Creek Town at Fort Benning, Georgia The Archaeology of Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Georgia Historic Mills in the Sand Hills of Fort Gordon, Georgia Protohistoric Period Ceramics at King’s Bay, Camden County, Georgia Three Decades of Archaeological Investigations and Cultural Resource Mangagement at Fort Stewart, Georgia James Cowan Waggoner, Jr. (1971–2009) The Beads of St. Catherine’s Island, By Elliott H. Blair, Lorann S.A. Pendleton, and Peter Francis, Jr. The Archaeology of Town Creek, by Edmond A. Boudreaux Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia, by Patricia Samford |
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Vol. 37, No. 1
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2009-Spring |
Editor’s Introduction Gum Ponds and Cypress Swamps: Late Archaic Use of Upland Inter-Riverine Resources in the Dougherty Plain of Southwest Georgia The Woodland Period North of the Fal Line: A Summary of Investigations from 1975 to 2000 Passport In Time at Scull Shoals, 1997–2003 The First Tears of the Trail: Archaeological Investigation of Potential Cherokee Removal Fort Sites in Georgia Architectural Variability in the Southeast, edited by Cameron H. Lacquement Circular Villages of the Monongahela, by Bernard K. Means |
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Vol. 36, No. 2
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2008-Fall |
Editor’s Introduction Early History of Indians Along the Piedmont Savannah and Oconee Rivers The Lamar Tradition Shedding New Light on Middle Georgia: The Ocmulgee River Basin Archaeological Project New Historical Data on an Old Archaeological Site: The Shoulderbone Mounds A Fresh Look at the Singer-Moye Site Mound Site, Stewart County, Georgia The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville, by Gregory D. Wilson Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Context, edited by Adam King Native American Landscapes of St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia, by David Hurst Thomas |
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Vol. 36, No. 1
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2008-Spring |
Residential and Communal Landscapes at the Ford Plantation Development, Richmond Hill, Georgia South of Hell’s Gate: Life at the North End Plantation, Ossasbaw Island, Georgia Necessity of Commodity? An Analysis of the Ford Plantation Colonoware, Bryan County, Georgia Home-Crafted Brock Grave Markers in the African-American Section of Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, GA A City Slave is Almost A Freeman…Or Not? Springfield: An Archaeological History of a Free African-American Community from the Revolution to the Civil War |
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Vol. 35, No. 2
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2007-Fall |
African-American Life in Georgia Through the Archaeological Looking Glass Data Recovery Excavations at the St. Anne’s Slave Settlement, St.Simon’s Island, Georgia African American Contributors to Savannah’s Historic Landscape Landownership and Hardship: Interpreting the Landscape of an African-American Community in Eastern Gwinnett County, Georgia Archaeology of a Tenant Farming Landscape: The Free Cabin Site, Hephzibah, Georgia |
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Vol. 35, No. 1
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2007-Spring |
Teardrops, Ladders, and Bull’s Eyes: Swift Creek on the Georgia Coast Experimental Studies in Diabase Validating “Daltonite” Within Greater Classification of Lithic Resources in the Interior Coastal Plain An Assessment of Stubby Stem Points A Sketch of the Pine Indian Cave Revisitng Arthur Kelly’s 1951 Field School and the Corra Harris Cave from Bartow County |
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Vol. 34, No. 2
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2006-Fall |
Prehistory of the Stuckey Tract, Bleckley County, Georgia |
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Vol. 34, No. 1
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2006-Spring |
A Techno-Functional Analysis of Fiber-Tempered Pottery from the Squeaking Tree Site (9TF5), Telfair County, Georgia Caught Knapping: A Modern Flintknapping Station in Greene County, Georgia Quartz Tool Technology in the Northeast Georgia Piedmont |
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Vol. 33, No. 2
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2005-Fall |
An Experimantal Approach to the Analysis of Two Maize Cob-Filled Features from Etowah (9BR1) Ridgeway Road: An Archaeological Survey in West Central Georgia A Burned Macon Plateau Period Structure from Brown’s Mount, Georgia In Search of Hernando de Soto: Charles Hudson and Paradigm Shifts in Southeastern Archaeology 4000 Years at a Glance: Patterns of Ceramic Style Distribution over Georgia “And The Sun Did Not Shine”: Experimental Archaeology at Macon Earth Lodge, 1938 |
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Vol. 33, No. 1
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2005-Spring | Click here to download in PDF format. When the Past is Destroyed: Loss of Archaeological Sites Due to Urbanization Land-Use Change and Impact on Archaeological Site in Georgia A Strategy for Conservation Archaeology in Georgia |
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Vol. 32, No. 2
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2004-Fall |
Natural Factors Affecting the Setttlement of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northwestern Georgia The Changing Face of Georgia Archaeology: 1974–2004 Swift Creek to Square Ground Lamar: Situating the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region in Calibrated Time |
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Vol. 32, No. 1
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2004-June |
Volunteers in Archaeology Georgia’s Fish Trap Dams Lydia Pinkham: Healer Or Quack? Archaeology and Community: The Public Private Partnership for Community History at Scull Shoals, Georgia Fort Hawkins Reconstruction Soapstone Ridge Bridging the Gap Between Archaeologists and the Public: Excavations at Silver Bluff Plantation, the George Galphin Site Volunteers in Archaeology: Discussant’s Comments from the Fall 2002 Meeting of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, Augusta |
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Vol. 31, No. 2
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2003-October |
Human Prehistory at the Sadlers Landing Site, Camden County Georgia |
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Vol. 31, No. 1
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2003-June |
New Data from the Cannon Site: A Thirteenth-Century Burial from Lake Blackshear Clarence Bloomfield Moore’s Unpublished Excavations on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia: 1898 Aerating Fort Gordon: Prehistoric Cultural Resources Data from Survey of 28,000 Acres Gnawing Desire: The Role of Beavers and Their Habitats in Prehistoric Culture Possible Astronomical Sybols on “Sacred” Weeden Island Pottery Timucuan Mission Ceramics of South Central Georgia Skeletal Analysis of a Nineteenth-Century Grave from Sapelo Island |
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Vol. 30, No. 2
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2002-October |
Water Dumps and Kiln Footprints: Introduction to the Archaeology of Georgia Folk Pottery Production Sites Archaeological Investigations of Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Potteries in Northern Washington County, Georgia The Gunters: The Migration of Georgia Pottery Family Taming The Groundhog: Excavations at the Sligh Stoneware Pottery, Paulding County, Georgia Historical and Archaeological Investigations of an Atlanta Folk Pottery: The Rolader Sites |
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Vol. 30, No. 1
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2002 |
An Overview of Georgia Projectile Points and Selected Cutting Tools |
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Vol. 29, No. 2
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2001-October |
Editor’s Introduction Archaeological Investigations of the Vulcan Site, Bartow County, Georgia Some Comments on the Vulcan Site Lithic Raw Material Choices and Tool Technologies |
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Vol. 29, No. 1
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2001-May | Resources at Risk: Defending Georgia’s Hidden Heritage Click here to download the entire issue in PDF format (2 MB). Guest Editor: Charlotte A. Smith Georgia’s Hidden Heritage at Risk: An Introduction What is Archaeology? How Exploring the Past Enriches the Present Why is Archaeology Important? Global Perspectives, Local Concerns An Introduction to the Prehistory of the Southeast or, “They Were Shootin’ ‘em as Fast as They Could Make ‘em…” and Other Popular Misconceptions About the Precolumbian Southeast Archaeological Resource Protection in Georgia: Federal, State, and Local Legislation and Programs This Is Not Your Mother’s SGA Sprawl and the Destruction of Georgia’s Archaeological Resources The Future of Georgia’s Archaeological Resources: Transforming Citizens into Defenders Jargon Commonly Used by Archaeologists: Glossary of Terms |
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Vol. 28, No. 2
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2000 |
Introduction Research Design and Field Results Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Soil Consequence Cultural Features Zooarchaeological Results Archaeobotanical Analysis Early and Middle Woodland Occupations Late Woodland and Etowah Occupations Qualla/Lamar Occupations |
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Vol. 28, No. 1
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2000 |
Archaeological Site Distributions in Georgia: 2000 The Rise and Fall of the Westoe Indians: An Evaluation of the Documentary Evidence Rocky Top Field Trip: Lithic Resources of Northeast Georgia |
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Vol. 27, No. 2
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1999 |
Soil Analysis and Prehistoric Agricultrual Fields: Ocmulgee National Monument, Mound D Vining Phase Excavations on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest From the Photographic Archives: The WPA in Georgia |
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Vol. 27, No. 1
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1999 |
A Guide to Georgia Indian Pottery Types |
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Vol. 26, No. 2
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1998 |
Archaeological Salvage of the Plant Hammond Site |
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Vol. 26, No. 1
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1998 |
Where Have All the Artifacts Gone? The Cobb County Archaeological Survey’s Final Chapter A Kolomoki Chronicle: History of a Plantation, a State Park, and the Archaeological Search for Kolomoki’s Prehistory |
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Vol. 25, No. 2
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1997 |
Excavations at the Marshall Site (9OC25): A Preliminary Report on the 1994-1995 Field Seasons A New Perspective on the Etowah Valley Mississippian Ceramic Sequence |
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Vol. 25, No. 1
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1997 |
Refining Soapstone Vessel Chronology in the Southeast Rethinking Early Mississippian Chrononlogy and Cultural Contact in Central Georgia: A View from Tarver (9JO6) The Fishing Creek Survey |
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Vol. 24, No. 2
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1996 |
Middle Mississippian Occupation in the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region Reviving the Past on Campus: Archaeology and Preservation at Augusta State University |
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Vol. 24, No. 1
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1996 |
An Appraisal of Tenant Farmer Health and Diet in Central Georgia: Results of the Redfield Cemetery Study Cacheing Behavior in Northwest Georgia in the Middle Woodland Period Upland Lamar, Vining, and Cartersville: An Interim Report from Raccoon Ridge |
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Vol. 23, No. 2
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1995 |
Investigation of Upland Piedmont Lamar Site 9HK64 The “Amateur” Archaeologist in Georgia A Variation of South’s Mean Ceramic Date Formula Red Pebbles |
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Vol. 23, No. 1
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1995 |
Quartz Passports of the Morrow Mountain Middle Archaic in the Savannah River Drainage Putting the Ogeechee in Its Place Archaeological Testing at the Brassell Site (9GL6), Glascock County, Georgia The Lewis Mound and the Mississippian Period Settlement of Fort Stewart , Georgia |
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Vol. 22, No. 2
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1994 |
The Walker Street Site, 9ME60 |
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Vol. 22, No. 1
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1994 |
Mississippian Settlement in the Upper Oconee and Upper Broad River Valleys Archaeological Distributions in Georgia: 1994 |
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Vol. 21, No. 2
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1993 |
The Engineer and the Millwright: The Changing Technology of Small Water Power at Cochran’s Mill Park The 1992 and 1993 Excavations at the King Site (9FL5) What Are They Doing Here? Late Woodland-Early Mississippi Use of the Upper Coastal Plain in the Savannah and Ogeechee Watersheds |
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Vol. 21, No. 1
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1993 |
The Textile Mills of Roswell, Georgia Prelude to Abandonment: The Interior Provinces of Early 17th-Century Georgia |
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Vol. 20, No. 2
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1992 |
In Search of True Flint Upland Mississppian Occupation of the Allatoona Area Two Hundred Years of Woodstock Occupation in Northwest Georgia: The View From Whitehead Farm 1 |
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Vol. 20, No. 1
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1992 | Click here to download in PDF format. Guest Editor: Rita Folse Elliot Adventures in Elementary Archaeology Sifting Through a Middle School Archaeology Program Collecting Artifacts from the Surface Archaeology and Anthropology for Second and Third Graders Indians, Archaeology of Georgia, and Middle School Students Dig It!: A Children’s Summer Workshop in Archaeology The National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program in Archaeology at Old Mobile New Ebenezer: A Sweaty Volunteer’s Account |
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Vol. 19, No. 2
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1991 |
Late Pleistocene-Holocene Depositional Change in the Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley: A Geoarchaeological Perspective Chronology of a Stratified Archaic Sequence in the Central Savannah River Valley Late Archaic/Early Woodland Structures from the Mill Branch Sites, Warren County, Georgia Mississippian Settlement in the Savannah River Basin Historical Archaeology at SRS: The Current State of Knowledge Black Labor–White Land: The Archaeology of Society and Social Change in Augusta, Georgia The Hamilton House Site (9CB137): Two Domestic Structures in Columbia County, Georgia |
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Vol. 19, No. 1
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1991 |
The Vining Revival: A Late Simple Stamped Phase in the Central Georgia Piedmont Hogcrawl Creek: Early Mississippian Period Occupation in the Middle Flint River Floodplain Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in Oglethorpe County, Georgia |
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Vol. 18, No. 1&2
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1990 |
Historic Patterns of Rock Piling and the Rock Pile Problems A Savannah-Period Mound in the Upper Interior Coastal Plain of Georgia The Sonny Lee Site: Shifting Sands and Archaeological Site Interpretation on the Gulf Coastal Plain |
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Vol. 17, No. 1&2
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1989 |
The Balfour Mound and WeedenIsland Culture in South Georgia The Beginnings of the Creeks: Where Did They First ‘Sit Down’? Investigations of Willink’s Marine Railway Savannah, Georgia Fortson Mound, Wilkes County, Georgia |
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Vol. 16, No. 1&2
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1988 |
Archaeological Evidence for the Distribution of Sixteenth-Century Irene/Guale People on the Georgia Coast and Relationships to Socio-Political Organization From Frontier to Boomtown in Madison, Georgia A Descriptive Survey of Archaeological Sites Discovered During a 1984 Draw-Down of Lake Harding |
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Vol. 15, No. 1&2
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1987 |
La Tama de la Tierra Adentro (The Tama of the Interior) A Preliminary Seriation of Coffin Hardware Forms in Ninetenth and Twentieth Century Georgia Swift Creek Occupation in the Altamaha Delta author author |
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Vol. 14, No. 1&2
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1986 |
Paleo-Indian Sites of the Inner Piedmont of Georgia: Observations of Settlement in the Oconee Watershed A Thrice-Born Department: A History of Anthropology at The University of Georgia Preliminary Investigations at an Early Woodland Site in Floyd County, Georgia |
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Vol. 13, No. 1&2
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1985 |
A Sixteenth-Century European Sword form a Proto-Historic Aboriginal Site in Northwest Georgia Pottery from Wamassee Head Middle Woodland Societies on the Lower South Atlantic Slope: A View from Georgia and South Carolina |
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Vol. 12, No. 1&2
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1984 |
Red Bird Creek: Late Prehistoric Material Culture and Subsistence in Coastal Georgia Introduction Irene Manifestations on the Northern Georgia Coast Irene Manifestations on Sapelo Island Irene Manifestations in the McIntosh County Tidewater Area Irene Manifestations from the Altamaha River to the St. Marys River |
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Vol. 11, No. 1&2
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1983 |
The Wallace Reservoir Archaeological Project: An Overview Vegetational History of the Wallace Resevoir Subsurface Testing in the 1974-75 Wallace Resevoir Survey: Site Discovery and Site Exploration Applications The Site Plan at Cold Springs, 9GE10 The Development of Lamar Ceramics in the Wallace Reservoir: The Evidence from the Dyar Site, 9GE5 Lamar Period Exploitation of Aquatic Resources in the Middle Oconee River Valley |
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Vol. 10, No. 1&2
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1982 |
Introduction Native Americans and Georgia’s Frontier Heritage Flintlocks and Slave Catchers: Economic Transformations of the Indians of Georgia Indians Along the Oconee River After DeSoto: The Beginning of the End Domestic Architecture and Domestic Activities in the Native South |
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Vol. 9, No. 1&2
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1981 |
Chert of Southern Oconee County, Georgia Finch’s Survey The Lack of a Wilmington/Savannah Distinction in the Cord-Marked Pottery from King’s Bay, Georgia An Archaeological Survey of an Area Proposed for Development at Etowah Mounds, Bartow County, Georgia The Rise and Decline of the Old Quartz Industry in the Southern Piedmont The Kelvin Phase House: Aboriginal Domestic Structure Design on the Southern Georgia Coast during the Late Woodland Period |
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Vol. 8, No. 1&2
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1980 |
Tentative Identification of a Prehistoric “Province” in Piedmont Georgia A Discussion of Misssissippian Settlement in the Georgia Piedmont An Early Woodland Campsite in North Central Georgia Big Tallassee: A Contribution to Upper Creek Site Archaeology Pagan Plum Point: Subsistence and Salt Marsh Ecology at a Late Archaic Shellmound, Chatham Co., Georgia |
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Vol. 7, No. 2
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1979 |
Preliminary Archaeological Investigations on Floyd Creek, Camden County , Georgia Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and the Yuchi An Archaeological Survey of the Upper Satilla Basin Kelvin: A Late Woodland Phase on the Southern Georgia Coast |
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Vol. 7, No. 1
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1979 |
The Historic Cabin Site: The Last Trace of the Cherokee Town of Coosawatee Historic Demography and Ethnographic Analogy The Anthropology of the Georgia Coast: A Reference Guide |
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Vol. 6, No. 1&2
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1978 |
Introduction A Reconsideration of the Hopewellian Interaction Sphere in Prehistory The View From Rood’s Landing, Then and Now Location Analysis of the Late Misissippian Sites in the Southern Piedmont The Tugalo Site, 9ST1 European Trade Material from Tugalo, 9ST1 Stone Tools in Historical Accounts, 1521-1800 Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Systems, Skidaway Island, Georgia Joseph R. Caldwell and Georgia Ceramics Ceramic Analysis in Georgia A Technique for Estimating Fish Weight From Bone Weight |
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Vol. 5, No. 1&2
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1977-September |
Environmental Changes on the Georgia Coast During the Prehistoric Period The Lower Georgia Coast as a Cultural Sub-Region A Survey of the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region Southwest Georgia Prehistory: An Overview Weeden Island in Southwest Georgia |
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Vol. 4, No. 1&2
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1976-September |
The Refuge Phase on the Coastal Plain of Georgia Metal Detection as a Technique in Urban Archaeological Survey: A Preliminary Statement The Route of DeSoto through Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama: The Evidence of Material Culture Copper and the Southeastern Indians Archaeological Reconnaissance in Early County, Georgia: A Model of Settlement Patterning |
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Vol. 3, No. 2
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1975-December |
The James Lee Rockshelter: A Prehistoric, Stratified, Limited Camp on Lookout Mountain A Preliminary Report on Test Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Swift Creek Designs and Distributions: A South Georgia Study |
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Vol. 3, No. 1
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1975-June |
The Archaic in Georgia The Woodland Period North of the Fall Line The Woodland Period South of the Fall Line The Mississippi Period Lamar and the Creeks: An Old Controversy Revisited Comments on the Papers |
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Vol. 2, No. 2
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1957-Spring |
Foreward The Chief Vann House, The Vanns, Tavern and Ferry The Cherokees Become a Civilized Tribe |
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Vol. 2, No. 1
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1955-Summer |
The Columbus Museum of Arts and History The Gallery of Indian Arts and Crafts The Abercrombie Mound, Russell County, Alabama Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Middle Chattahoochee River Valley Bibliography for Research Papers in this Issue Communications and Reviews |
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Vol. 1, No. 4
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1955-Spring |
Chronology of New Echota New Echota—Capitol of the Cherokee Nation Symbols of a Civilization that Perished in its Infancy Excavations at New Echota in 1954 Isobel Garrard Patterson |
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Vol. 1, No. 3
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1954-Fall |
The Georgia Historical Commission The Chief Joseph Vann House The White House in Augusta, Georgia The Spanish Mission Site Near Darien Georgia Historical Commission Excavations at Etowah, Summer, 1954 New Echota Recent Discoveries in Georgia |
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Vol. 1, No. 2
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1950-Fall |
The Study of Sites Hunting Petroglyphs in North Georgia Georgia Archaeologists Before the Camera Reconstruction of the Woodstock Fort Standing Peach Tree News and Notes |
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Vol. 1, No. 1
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1950-Summer |
What Are Artifacts A Preliminary Report on the Excavations in the Allatoona Reservoir Kolomoki Survey of the Lower Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers Notes on the Exploration of the Bull Creek Site, Columbus, Georgia A Sketch of the Pine Log Indian Cave News and Notes |