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Issue Date Contents
Vol. 34, No. 1
(88 pages)
2006- Spring A Techno-Functional Analysis of Fiber-Tempered Pottery from the Squeaking Tree Site (9TF5), Telfair County, Georgia
James C. Waggoner, Jr.

Caught Knapping: A Modern Flintknapping Station in Greene County, Georgia
Scott Jones and Jerald Ledbetter

Quartz Tool Technology in the Northeast Georgia Piedmont
Scott Jones

No Longer Available

Vol. 33, No. 2
(69 pages)
2005-Fall An Experimental Approach to the Analysis of Two Maize Cob-Filled Features from Etowah (9BR1)
Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund

Ridgeway Road: An Archaeological Survey in West-Central Georgia
James C. Waggoner, Jr.

A Burned Macon Plateau Period Structure from Brown’s Mount, Georgia
Richard A. Marshall and Mark Williams

In Search of Hernando de Soto: Charles Hudson and Paradigm Shifts in Southeastern Archaeology
Marvin T. Smith

4000 Years at a Glance:
Patterns of Ceramic Style Distribution over Georgia

Mark Williams

“And The Sun Did Not Shine”:
Experimental Archaeology at Macon Earth Lodge, 1938

Elizabeth C. Shirk

Vol. 33, No. 1
(126 pages)
2005-Spring

When the Past is Destroyed: Loss of Archaeological Sites Due to Urbanization
Stephen Kowalewski

Land-Use Change and Impact on Archaeological Sites in Georgia
Malcomb Jared Wood and Gregory Lucas

A Strategy for Conservation Archaeology in Georgia
Terry Jackson and Jack Tyler

Vol. 32, No. 2
(81 pages)

2004-Fall Natural Factors Affecting the Settlement of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northwestern Georgia
Maureen Meyers

The Changing Face of Georgia Archaeology: 1975-2004
David C. Crass and Richard Warner

Swift Creek to Square Ground Lamar: Situating the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region in Calibrated Time
Keith Stephenson and Frankie Snow

Vol. 32, No. 1
(76 pages)
2004 Special Issue: Volunteers in Action

Introduction:Volunteers in Archaeology
Allen Vegotsky

Georgia’s Fish Trap Dams
Bill Frazier

Lydia Pinkham: Healer or Quack?
Allen Vegotsky and Rita Elliott

Archaeology and Community: The Public-Private Partnership for Community History at Scull Shoals, Georgia
Jack T. Wynn and Judson Kratzer

Fort Hawkins Reconstruction
Bob Cramer

Soapstone Ridge
Tom Wheaton and David Allison

Bridging the Gap between Archaeologists and the Public: Excavations at Silver Bluff Plantation, the George Galphin Site
Tammy R. Forehand, Mark D. Groover, David C. Crass, and Robert Moon

Volunteers in Archaeology: Discussant’s Comments from the Fall 2002 Meeting of The Society for Georgia Archaeology
Rita Elliott

Vol. 31, No. 2
(90 pages)
2003 Human Prehistory at Sadlers Landing Site, Camden County Georgia
S. Dwight Kirkland
Vol. 31, No. 1
(98 pages)
2003 New Date From the Cannon Site: A Thirteenth Century Burial from Lake
Blackshear (Peer-Reviewed Article)
George Price and Bryan
Tucker

Clarence Bloomfield Moore’s Unpublished Excavations on St. Simons
Island, Georgia: 1898
Charles E. Pearson and Fred C. Cook

Aerating Fort Gordon: Prehistoric Cultural Resources Data from Survey
of 28,000 Acres
Robert W. Benson

Gnawing Desire: The Role of Beavers and their Habitats in
Prehistoric Culture
Scott Jones

Possible Astronomical Symbols on ‚“Sacred” Weeden Island Pottery
David Allison

Timucuan Mission Ceramics of South Central Georgia
Marvin T. Smith and Eric Marks

Skeletal Analysis of a Nineteenth Century Grave from Sapelo Island
Robert L. Wright, Matthew A. Williamson and David Colin Crass

Vol. 30, No. 2
(208 pages)
2002 Waster Dumps and Kiln Footprints: Introduction to the Archaeology of Georgia Folk Pottery Production Sites
John A. BurrisonArchaeological Investigations of Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Potteries in Northern Washington County Georgia
William R. Jordan

The Gunters – Migration of a Georgia Pottery Family
C. Scott Butler

Taming the Groundhog: Excavations At The Sligh Stoneware Pottery, Paulding County, Georgia
Christopher T. Espenshade

Historical and Archaeological Investigations of an Atlanta Folk Pottery: The Rolader Site
William R. Bowen and Linda F. Carnes

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Vol. 30, No. 1


(133 pages)


2002

An Overview of Georgia Projectile Points and Selected Cutting Tools

John
S. Whatley

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Vol. 29, No.
2

(183 pages)

2001 Archaeological Investigation of
the Vulcan Site, Bartow County, Georgia

R. Jerald Ledbetter, Thomas Neumann, Mary Spink, and Andrea Shea

Some Comments on Vulcan Site Lithic Ray Material Choices and Tool Technologies
Scott Jones

Vol. 28, No. 2
(180 pages)
2000 Archaeological Excavations in Brasstown Valley

Introduction
J.W. Joseph

Research Design and Field Results
J.S. Cable and H.S. Gard

Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Soil Chronosequence
D.S. Leigh

Cultural Features
L.E. Raymer

Zooarchaeological Analysis
L.O’Steen

Archaeobotanical Analysis
L.E. Raymer and M.T. Bonhage-Freund

Early and Middle Woodland Occupations
J.S. Cable

Late Woodland and Etowah Occupations
J.S. Cable

Qualla/Lamar Occupations
J.S. Cable and M.B. Reed

Vol. 27, No. 1
(167 pages)
1999 A Guide to Georgia Indian Pottery Types
Mark Williams and Victor ThompsonIntroduction

Alphabetical List of Types

Identification Quick Key
Illustration References
References Cited

No Longer Available

Vol. 26, No. 1
(81 pages)
1998 Where Have All the Artifacts Gone? The Cobb County Archaeological Survey’s Final Chapter
Deborah L. Wallsmith

A Kolomoki Chronicle: History of a Plantation, a State Park, and the Archaeological Search for Kolomoki’s Prehistory
C. T. Trowell

Vol. 25, No. 2
(61 pages)
1997 Excavations at the Marshall Site (9OC25): A Preliminary Report on the 1994-1995 Field Seasons
James W. Hatch, Jerald Ledbetter, Adam King, Peter van Rossum, Thomas Foster, and Ervan Garrison

A New Perspective on the Etowah Valley Mississippian Ceramic Sequence
Adam King

Vol. 25, No. 1
(84 pages)
1997 Refining Soapstone Vessel Chronology in the Southeast
Kenneth E. Sassaman

Rethinking Early Mississippian Chronology and Cultural Contact in Central Georgia: The View from Tarver (9JO6)
Thomas J. Pluckhahn

The Fishing Creek Survey
John F. Chamblee

Vol. 24, No. 2
(75 pages)
1996 Middle Mississippian Occupation in the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region
Keith Stephenson, Adam King, and Frankie Snow

Reviving the Past on Campus: Archaeology and Preservation at Augusta State University
Christopher P. H. Murphy and David C. Crass

Vol. 24, No. 1
(83 pages)
1996 An Appraisal of Tenant Farmer Health and Diet in Central Georgia: Results of the Redfield Cemetery Study
Chad 0. Braley and William G. Moffat

Caching Behavior in Northwest Georgia During the Middle Woodland Period
Dawn Reid

Upland Lamar, Vining, and Cartersville: An Interim Report from Raccoon Ridge
John Worth

Vol. 23, No. 2
(59 pages)
1995 Investigation of Upland Piedmont Lamar Site 9HK64
Dennis B. Blanton

The ‚“Amateur” Archaeologists in Georgia
George S. Lewis

A Variation of South’s Mean Ceramic Date Formula
G. Jay Croft Red Pebbles Mark Williams

Vol. 23, No. 1
(92 pages)
1995 Quartz Passports of the Morrow Mountain Middle Archaic in the Savannah River Drainage
Robert W. Benson

Putting the Ogeechee in Its Place
Kenneth E. Sassaman, Kristin J. Wilson, and Frankie Snow

Archaeological Testing at the Brassell Site (9GL6), Glascock County
Kenneth E. Sassaman

The Lewis Mound and the Mississippian Period Settlement of Fort Stewart, Georgia
Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Vol. 22, No. 1
(76 pages)
1994 Mississippian Settlement in the Upper Oconee and Upper Broad River Valleys
Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Archaeological Site Distributions in Georgia: 1994
Mark Williams

Vol. 21, No. 2
(59 pages)
1993 The Engineer and the Millwright: The Changing Technology of Small Water Power at Cochran’s Mill Park
David L. Morton, Jr.

The 1992 and 1993 Excavation at the King Site (9FL5)
David J. Hally

What Are They Doing Here? Late Woodland-Early Mississippi Use of the Upper Coastal Plain in the Savannah and Ogeechee Watersheds
Chad 0. Braley

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Vol. 21, No. 1
(58 pages)
1993 The Textile Mills of Roswell, Georgia
Karen G. Wood

Prelude to Abandonment: The Interior Provinces of Early 17th-Century Georgia
John E. Worth

Vol. 20, No. 2
(80 pages)
1992 In Search of True Flint
Walter G. Jung II

Upland Mississippian Occupation in the Allatoona Area
Adam King and R. Jerald Ledbetter

Two Hundred Years of Woodstock Occupation in Northwest Georgia: The View from Whitehead Farm 1
William F Stanyard and Thomas R. Baker

Contents of Early

Georgia
Volumes 1-20

Vol. 19, No. 2
(134 pages)
1991 Late Pleistocene-Holocene Depositional Change in the Coastal Plain of the Savannah River Valley- A Geoarchaeological Perspective
Mark J. Brooks and Donald J. Colquhoun

Chronology of a Stratified Archaic Sequence in the Central Savannah River Valley
Morgan R. Crook, Jr.

Late Archaic/Early Woodland Structures from the Min Branch Sites, Warren County, Georgia
R. Jerald Ledbetter

Mississippian Settlement in the Savannah River Basin David G. Anderson

Lost and Found: Eighteenth-Century Towns in the Savannah River Region
Daniel T. Elliott

Historical Archaeology at SRS: The Current State of Knowledge
David Crass and Richard Brooks

Black Labor – White Land: Tbe Archeology of Society and Social Change in Augusta, Georgia
J.W. Joseph and Mary Beth Reed

The Hamilton House Site (9CB137): Two Domestic Structures in Columbia County, Georgia
Christopher Murphy

Vol. 19, No. 1
(62 pages)
1991 The Vining Revival: A Late Simple Stamped Phase in the Central Georgia Piedmont
Daniel T. Elliott and Jack T. Wynn

Hogcrawl Creek: Early Mississippian Period Occupation in the Middle Flint River Floodplain
John E. Worth and W. Maxwell Duke

Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in Oglethorpe County, Georgia
Jennifer Freer


Vol. 18, Nos. 1 & 2
(81 pages)
1990 Historic Patterns of Rock Piling and the Rock Pile Problems

Thomas H. Gresham

A Savannah Period Mound in the Upper-Interior Coastal Plain of Georgia
Keith Stephenson, John E. Worth and Frankie Snow

The Sonny Lee Site: Shifting Sands and Archaeological Site Interpretation on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Karl T. Steinen and Thomas J. Crawford

Vol. 17, Nos. 1 & 2

(75 pages)

1989 The Balfour Mound and Weeden Island Culture in South Georgia
Carl T. Steinen

The Beginnings of the Creeks: Where Did They First ‘Sit Down’?
Frank T. Schnell

Investigations of Willink’s Marine Railway Savannah, Georgia
Julie Barnes Smith

Fortson Mound, Wilkes County, Georgia
Daniel T. Elliott and Steven A. Kowalewski

Vol. 16, Nos. 1 & 2
(72 pages)
1988 Archaeological Evidence for the Distribution of Sixteenth-Century Irene/Guale People on the Georgia Coast and Relationships to Socio-Political Organization
Fred C. Cook

From Frontier to Boomtown in Madison, Georgia
Mark Williams and

Marshall Williams

A Descriptive Survey of Archaeological Sites Discovered During a 1984 Draw-Down of Lake Harding
Tom J. Meltzer

Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2
(65 pages)
1987 La Tama de la Tierra Adentro (The Tama of the Interior)
Samuel J. Lawson III

A Preliminary Seriation of Coffin Hardware Forms in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Georgia
Patrick H. Garrow

Swift Creek Occupation in the Altamaha Delta
Lucy B. Wayne

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Vol. 14, Nos. 1 & 2
(95 pages)
1986 Paleo-Indian Sites of the Inner Piedmont of Georgia: Observations of Settlement in the Oconee Watershed
Lisa D. O’Steen, R. Jerald Ledbetter, Daniel T. Elliott, and William W. Barker

A Thrice-Born Department: A History of Anthropology at The University of Georgia
Wilfrid C. Bailey

Preliminary Investigations at an Early Woodland Site in Floyd County, Georgia
David S. Rotenstein

Vol. 13, Nos. 1 & 2
(66 pages)
1985 A Sixteenth Century European Sword from a Proto-historic Aboriginal Site in Northwest Georgia
Keith J. Little

Pottery from Wamassee Head
Mary Ann Brewer

Middle Woodland Societies on the Lower South Atlantic Slope: A View from Georgia and South Carolina
David G. Anderson

Vol. 12, Nos. 1 & 2
(77 pages)
1984 Red Bird Creek: Late Prehistoric Material Culture and Subsistence in Coastal Georgia
Charles E. Pearson

Irene: A Georgia Coast Archaeological Manifestation in Time and Space

Symposium Papers Presented at the Georgia Academy of Science, April, 1983
Introduction

Lewis H. Larson, Jr.

Irene Manifestations on the Northern Georgia Coast
Chester B. DePratter

Irene Manifestations on Sapelo Island
Morgan R. Crook, Jr.

Irene Manifestations in the McIntosh County Tidewater Area
Lewis H. Larson, Jr.

Irene Manifestations from the Altamaha River to the St. Marys River
Robin L. Smith

Vol. 11, Nos. 1 & 2
(103 pages)
1983 The Wallace Reservoir Archaeological Project: An Overview
Paul R. Fish and David J. Hally

Vegetational History of the Wallace Reservoir
Elisabeth S. Sheldon

Subsurface Testing in the 1974-75 Wallace Reservoir Survey: Site Discovery and Site Exploration Applications
Chester B. DePratter

The Site Plan at Cold Springs, 9Ge10
Suzanne K. Fish and Richard W. Jeffries

The Development of Lamar Ceramics in the Wallace Reservoir: The Evidence from the Dyar Site, 9Ge5
Marvin T. Smith

Lamar Period Exploitation of Aquatic Resources in the Middle Oconee River Valley
James L. Rudolph

Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2
(52 pages)
1982 Georgia’s Legacy of Native Indian Culture Lectures presented at the Etowah Indian Mounds Museum, Cartersville July 16 and 23, 1983

Introduction
Robert Clements and Susan Power Rapp

Native Americans and Georgia’s Frontier Heritage
Robert Bouwman

Flintlocks and Slave-Catchers: Economic Transformations of the Indians of Georgia
Robbie F. Ethridge

Indians Along the Oconee After DeSoto: The Beginning of the End
Mark Williams

Domestic Architecture and Domestic Activities in the Native South
David J. Hally

Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2
(87 pages)
1981 Chert of Southern Oconee County, Georgia
R. Jerald Ledbetter, Stephen A. Kowalewski and Lisa O’Steen

Finch’s Survey
Daniel T. Elliott

The Lack of a Wilmington/Savannah Distinction in the Cord-marked Pottery from King’s Bay, Georgia
Christopher T. Espenshade

An Archaeological Survey of an Area Proposed for Development at Etowah Mounds, Bartow Co., Georgia
John R. Morgan

The Rise and Decline of the Old
Quartz Industry in the Southern Piedmont

Kenneth W. Johnson

The Kelvin Phase House:
Aboriginal Domestic Structure Design on the Southern Georgia Coast during the late Woodland Period

Fred Cook

Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2
(94 pages)
1980 Tentative Identification of a Prehistoric “Province” in Piedmont Georgia
Marvin T. Smith and Stephen A. Kowalewski

A Discussion of Mississippian Settlement in the Georgia Piedmont
James L. Rudolph and Dennis B. Blanton

An Early Woodland Campsite in North Central Georgia
William R. Bowen

Big Tallassee: A Contribution to Upper Creek Site Archaeology
Vernon J. Knight Jr. and Marvin T. Smith

Pagan Plum Point: Subsistence and Salt March Ecology at a Late Archaic Shellmound, Chatham Co., Georgia
Terry Martin

Vol. 7, No. 2
(86 pages)
Dec 1979 Preliminary Archaeological Investigations on Floyd Creek, Camden County, Georgia
S. Dwight Kirkland

Ethnohistory, Archaeology and the Yuchi
Anne Frazer Rogers

An Archaeological Survey of the Upper Satilla Basin
Dennis Blanton

Kelvin: A Late Woodland Phase on the Southern Georgia Coast Fred Cook

Vol. 6, Nos. 1 & 2
(105 pages)
1978 Introduction
Chester B. DePratter and Chung Ho Lee

A Reconsideration of the Hopewellian Interaction Sphere in Prehistory
Sharon I. Goad

The View from Rood’s Landing, Then and Now Gail S. Schnell

Locational Analysis of Late Mississippian Sites in the Southern Piedmont
Chung Ho Lee

The Tugalo Site, 9ST1
Marshall W. Williams and Carolyn ‚“Liz” Branch

European Trade Material from Tugalo, 9ST1
Marvin T. Smith and J. Mark Williams

Stone Tools in Historical
Accounts, 1521-1800 Marilyn Pennington

Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Systems, Skidaway Island, Georgia
Chester B. DePratter

Joseph R. Caldwell and Georgia Ceramics
Betty A. Smith

Ceramic Analysis in Georgia
J. Mark Williams

A Technique for Estimating Fish Might From Bone Might
Charles E. Pearson

Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2

(99 pages)

1978 Environmental Changes on the Georgia Coast During the Prehistoric Period
Chester B. DePratter

The Lower Georgia Coast as a Cultural Sub-Region
Fred C. Cook

A Survey of the Ocmulgee Big Bend Region
Francis H. Snow

Southwest Georgia Prehistory: An Overview
Betty A. Smith

Weeden Island in Southwest Georgia
Karl Steinen

Vol. 4, Nos. 1 & 2

(75 pages)

Sep
1976
The Refuge Phase on the Coastal Plain of Georgia
Chester B. DePratter

Metal Detection as a Technique in Urban Archaeological Survey: A Preliminary Statement
William R. Bowen and Linda F. Carnes

The Route of DeSoto Through Tennessee, Georgia. and Alabama: The Evidence from Material Culture
Marvin T. Smith

Copper and the Southeastern Indians
Sharon I. Goad

Archaeological Reconnaissance in Early County, Georgia: A Model of Settlement Patterning
Karl T. Steine

Vol. 3, No. 2

(59 pages)

Dec 1975 The James Lee Rockshelter: A Prehistoric, Stratified, Limited Activity Camp on Lookout Mountain
James A. Brown

A Preliminary Report on Test Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring, 1975
Daniel L. Simpkins

Swift Creek Designs and Distributions: A South Georgia Study
F.H. Snow