Archaeologist Russell Cutts’ talk, “Primitive or Sophisticated? Human Ingenuity Through Ancient Eyes” will be presented to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (BRAG) on Wednesday, October 9, 2019. We “moderns” often assume our superiority against perceptions of our ancestors, and indeed, even other animals. Using ancient technologies as a lens to inquire as to the ingenuity and inventiveness of our […]

The December meeting of the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (BRAG) will be a social hour and brainstorming session.  Anyone interested in Archaeology, locally or worldwide, is cordially invited.  The meeting will be at 6:00 pm in the Dahlonega Parks and Recreation Building on Riley Road, Wednesday, December 12th. Instead of a regular guest speaker program, […]

2018-2019 Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild Officers: President Tony Shore Vice-President Chris Worick Treasurer Manny Carvalho Secretary Jack Wynn

The upcoming B.R.A.G guest speaker this coming Wednesday at 6pm is Dr. Nicola Sharrat from Georgia State University. Her talk is based on her work at the highland Andean site of Tiwanaku, Peru. For 500 years the Tiwanaku, one of the earliest states in South America, held cultural, economic, and political influence over large areas […]

Archaeologist Sarah Love of the Department of Historic Preservation will discuss how community engagement and archaeology can be used to help listing sites on the National Register of Historic Places. To highlight the importance of archaeology to National Register eligibility, she presents a case study of an African-American schoolhouse from Northwest Georgia for the Blue […]

Dr. Hugh B. Matternes of New South Associates in Stone Mountain will discuss his work on “Upland Box Tombs: Southern Variants on a Popular Nineteenth Century Grave Cover” for the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild 6pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.The Archaeology Guild meetings are free and the public is welcome to attend.  They begin at […]

Dr. David Patterson of the Biology Department at the University of North Georgia will speak to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild on Wednesday, April 11, at 6:00 pm.  His topic will be “Human and animal adaptation in dynamic ecosystems: case studies from the fossil record of Africa and coastal Georgia.”    For much of our […]

Archaeologist Steven Hammock will speak to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (B.R.A.G.) on Wednesday, February 14 at 6:00 pm at the Dahlonega Parks and Recreation Building. His topic is “Creek Rising: Ethnogenesis in Middle Georgia’s Ocmulgee River Valley,” ethnohistory and archaeology of the Historic Creek Indians in the 16th and 17th centuries. Macon native Stephen […]

The Blue Ridge Archaeological Guild (B.R.A.G) is a SGA chapter in north Georgia. Their next meeting will be at 6:00 At the Dahlonega Parks and Recreation Building at 365 Riley Rd. The guest speaker for the evening will be archaeologist Dan Lowery. He will discuss his on-going research into the location of Fort Buffington, near […]

The Blue Ridge Archaeological Guild (B.R.A.G) is a SGA chapter in north Georgia. At their next meeting, Dr. David Noble, will speak on the “Cutting Edge of Science at Kettle Creek”  using cadaver dogs, X-ray Flurescence and ground penetrating radar to locate burials. Read the announcement for more details .

B.R.A.G is a SGA chapter in north Georgia. At their next meeting, Dr. Glover, an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of Georgia State University, is going to speak on “Exploring the hidden coast of the maritime Maya with investigations of the ancient port sites of Vista Alegre and Conil off the Yucatan peninsula.” Read the announcement for more details .

Take a look at some of the events taking place this month across the state. Read more about how to attend lectures and learn about archaeology and upcoming events, including hands on activities like artifact ID days and field day opportunities.

Take a look at some of the events taking place this month across the state. Archaeology events and meetings are taking place in Macon, Dahlonega, and Sautee-Nacoochee near Helen, GA. Read more about how to attend lectures and learn about archaeology and upcoming events, including hands on activities like artifact ID days and field day opportunities.

Take a look at some of the events taking place this month across the state. Local chapter meetings are taking place in Macon, Atlanta, Dahlonega, Buford, and Augusta in the coming weeks. Read more about how to attend lectures and learn about archaeology and upcoming events, including hands on activities like artifact ID days, archaeological lab instruction, and field day opportunities.

Take a look at some of the events taking place this month across the state. Local chapter meetings are taking place in Atlanta, Cartersville, Dahlonega, and Buford in the coming weeks. Read more about how to attend lectures and learn about archaeology. Also be sure to tell everyone to contact their house representatives to share concerns about Senate Bill 346.

Take a look at some of the events taking place this month across the state. Local chapter meetings are taking place in Atlanta, Dahlonega, and Macon this week and in Buford next week. A three day event is scheduled for February 18-20 in Savannah for the Ossabaw Island Foundation Symposium.

The Blue Ridge Archeological Guild (B.R.A.G.) will meet on Wednesday, June 17th, at 6:00 PM in the community room of United Community Bank on Hwy 52 in Dahlonega, Georgia.
The guest speaker will be Wayne Hooper, the Secretary of B.R.A.G. and a member of the “Gilmer County Historical Society and Museum” in Ellijay, who will present on “Coosa Kingdom’s first contact with Hernando De Soto in 1540.” This meeting is free to the public. Click here to read more.

Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild’s March 2015 newsletter is here! Catch up with the activities that took place in March including excavations at Farmer’s Bottom with the Forest Service and Southern Research, Inc. and a summary of guest speaker Lori Thompson’s talk about the MARTA project in 1974. The newsletter also includes upcoming events in April. Access […]

The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild will meet Thursday, November 2, at 7 p.m., at the United Community Bank Building on Morrison Moore Parkway (Hwy 52), Dahlonega. Archaeologist Dr. James D’Angelo will speak about the nearly 12,000 year old temple at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which he recently visited.

The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild will meet Thursday, October 23, at 7 p.m., at the United Community Bank Building on Morrison Moore Parkway, Dahlonega. Cliff Shaw will present a program titled “William Bartram and the Search for his Great Buffalo Lick in Oglethorpe County.” Joining him will be Tom Gresham from Historic Oglethorpe County to discuss his search for Cherokee Corner, another important landmark in Oglethorpe County visited by William Bartram in 1773.

Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild members and archaeologist Dr. Jack T. Wynn of the University of North Georgia will examine, record, and identify your prehistoric artifact collections and discuss their function. All are invited to bring their prehistoric artifacts for identification. There will also be a primitive technology demonstration by Brian Floyd. The event will take place in the meeting room at the United Community Bank Building, 206 Morrison Moore Parkway, in Dahlonega, Georgia from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 15th. This is a great learning opportunity for adults and children alike.

The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (BRAG) will meet on Wednesday, January 22, at 7:00 p.m., at the United Community Bank in Dahlonega, Georgia, 206 Morrison Moore Parkway. BRAG President Tony Shore will give a presentation titled, “Moundville Archaeology and the Moundville Museum.”

The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild will meet on Wednesday, September 25, at 7:00 pm at the United Community Bank. Erin Drake, Senior Archaeologist with Terracon, Inc., of Duluth, GA, will deliver a presentation, “Discovering the Past: Archaeology and Georgia’s First People.” The public is welcome to attend.

On Thursday, August 22, Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild President Tony Shore and Susanne Shore will talk about their experiences in 2010 and 2011 at the Topper Site, a pre-Clovis excavation along the upper Savannah River in South Carolina. As always, visitors are encouraged to attend!

This summer Jack Wynn, long-time SGA member and professor of anthropology at the University of North Georgia, returned to the Duckett site with his field school and members of the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild. Their work continues to shed new light on an important Middle Woodland period site in northern Georgia, and was the subject of a recent news article in the Gainesville Times.

Dr. Ashley Smallwood, Director of the Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Laboratory at the University of West Georgia, will speak to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild, a Chapter of the SGA, and the presentation’s co-sponsor, the University of North Georgia’s Dahlonega campus Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy. Dr. Smallwood will discuss three theories of how people first reached the Americas at 7 pm on April 4th in Young Hall Room 202, Dahlonega.

Long-time SGA member Jack Wynn suggests our members and friends may be interested in reading this story by Hannah Parson, “Students Unearth History and Mystery at the Duckett Site,” posted on The Steeple, the online student newspaper of for the University of North Georgia–Dahlonega and the Military College of Georgia. So far, students—and members of the SGA Chapter Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild—have helped shovel test in a grid across the site area to understand variation across the settlement, and to analyze materials discovered and data recovered during the testing.

On October 6, 8, and 13 of 2010, Blue Ridge Archaeological Guild members assisted Becky Bruce-Vaughters (US Forest Service archaeologist) and Dr. Jack Wynn (US Forest Service archaeologist, retired) in conducting shovel tests, metal detection, and artifact collections at two historical sites near the shoreline of beautiful Nottley Lake in Blairsville, Georgia.

Although the Georgia Mountains Archaeological Society (GMAS) in Gainesville is no more, there is a new SGA chapter rising in north Georgia. The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (BRAG) is meeting on the third Thursday each month at North Georgia College and State University (NGCSU) at 7:00 pm in Young Hall. Their meetings are in conjunction with the new student club, the North Georgia Archaeology Guild (NoGAG). The two clubs are already busy with hands-on projects.