http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:36:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2010/08/camp-lawton-in-the-news/ http://thesga.org/2010/08/camp-lawton-in-the-news/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:06:33 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6260 Even the national news recently picked up on the story about Camp Lawton, where investigations, including a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey, have revealed the exact location of this Civil War/War Between the States prisoner of war camp that was established in 1864.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/08/camp-lawton-in-the-news/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/07/monitor-construction-of-a-medieval-castle/ http://thesga.org/2010/07/monitor-construction-of-a-medieval-castle/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:00:37 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6147 Are you interested in visiting a castle? There's a thirteenth-century fortress under construction in northern Arkansas that opened in May. Well, the construction site opened. Planners say it'll take thirty years to finish the stone complex.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/07/monitor-construction-of-a-medieval-castle/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/06/road-trip-chief-vanns-house/ http://thesga.org/2010/06/road-trip-chief-vanns-house/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:00:14 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5782 Consider visiting the Chief Vann house, built over two hundred years ago just west of Chatsworth. It was the first brick home in the Cherokee nation. The house overlooks James Vann's land, called Spring Place Plantation, and what we now call the Old Federal Road. This route followed an earlier foot trail and lead from east-central Georgia to the northwest, eventually crossing into Tennessee. What advantages did Vann, a Cherokee leader and businessman, have that contributed to his wealth and influence?]]> http://thesga.org/2010/06/road-trip-chief-vanns-house/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/05/moundvilles-archaeological-museum-reopens/ http://thesga.org/2010/05/moundvilles-archaeological-museum-reopens/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 18:36:36 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5674 On Saturday, May 16th, 2010, the Jones Archaeological Museum at the 320-acre Moundville Archaeological Park reopened after a two-year, $5 million renovation. The Moundville site is in Alabama, south of Tuscaloosa. Moundville is a multi-mound civic-ceremonial community dating to the Mississippian period.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/05/moundvilles-archaeological-museum-reopens/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/05/casa-grande-the-usas-first-archeological-reserve/ http://thesga.org/2010/05/casa-grande-the-usas-first-archeological-reserve/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 09:00:05 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5579 The archaeological remains near modern Coolidge, Arizona, now known as Casa Grande Ruins National Monument became the USA's first archaeological reserve in 1892. The roof protecting the large three-story ruin known as Casa Grande was built in the 1930s. The ruin is constructed of locally available caliche. Read more about the architecture at this stunning site, and of the remains that spread beyond the limits of the preserved area.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/05/casa-grande-the-usas-first-archeological-reserve/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/01/a-bit-of-us-military-history%e2%80%a6/ http://thesga.org/2010/01/a-bit-of-us-military-history%e2%80%a6/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:00:20 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4023 Quick: what is the only installation built by the United States military during the settling of the interior of the continent to protect Indians from Indians (rather than settlers from Native Americans)?]]> http://thesga.org/2010/01/a-bit-of-us-military-history%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/12/jekyll-island%e2%80%99s-hidden-past/ http://thesga.org/2009/12/jekyll-island%e2%80%99s-hidden-past/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:00:50 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4518 Georgia's Jekyll Island has an interesting past, detailed here. The Island is owned by the the people of Georgia and managed on their behalf by the Jekyll Island Authority. It's a natural and cultural treasure most of us don't know enough about.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/12/jekyll-island%e2%80%99s-hidden-past/feed/ 7 http://thesga.org/2009/11/have-a-drink-in-a-new-eighteenth-century-coffeehouse/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/have-a-drink-in-a-new-eighteenth-century-coffeehouse/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:53 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4173 If you want to have coffee in an historic eighteenth century coffeehouse, you can now do so! The drinks that are offered are tea, chocolate, and, of course, coffee! R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse at Colonial Williamsburg is a new building now open for business!]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/have-a-drink-in-a-new-eighteenth-century-coffeehouse/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/11/data-from-geophysical-survey-can-reveal-important-data-without-excavation/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/data-from-geophysical-survey-can-reveal-important-data-without-excavation/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:00:52 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3977 Recent data from a geophysical survey of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum, in Norfolk, England, directed by researchers from the University of Nottingham, reveals that this walled town was less densely settled than previously thought. Geophysical surveys do not disturb buried archaeological remains and can reveal important data, using less expensive and repeatable research methods.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/data-from-geophysical-survey-can-reveal-important-data-without-excavation/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/10/moundville-comes-to-life-in-slim-new-volume/ http://thesga.org/2009/10/moundville-comes-to-life-in-slim-new-volume/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:30 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3893 John H. Blitz doesn't mince words. Answering the question who built the mounds at the famous Mississippian settlement next to the Black Warrior River at Moundville, Alabama, Blitz writes: "We don't know" (page 4). Nevertheless, Blitz presents a useful summary of the settlement, research relevant to interpreting it, and the history of how it came to be the 320-acre Moundville Archaeological Park in a new book.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/10/moundville-comes-to-life-in-slim-new-volume/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/10/why-do-people-build-tall-structures-the-astoria-column/ http://thesga.org/2009/10/why-do-people-build-tall-structures-the-astoria-column/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:00:41 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3830 Even a cursory examination of cross-cultural data indicates that around the globe, in many societies, peoples with many belief systems have built structures important to them on high places. In addition, the structures are often unusually tall when compared to residential buildings. Indeed, important buildings are often tall, large, or both. Why?]]> http://thesga.org/2009/10/why-do-people-build-tall-structures-the-astoria-column/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/10/jekyll-island-and-the-telephone/ http://thesga.org/2009/10/jekyll-island-and-the-telephone/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:00:40 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3836 An important event in the history of the telephone happened on Jekyll Island. If you wander around the historic area south of the Jekyll Island Clubhouse, now the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, you will find a plexiglass box encompassing an old telephone. Do you know what this commemorates?]]> http://thesga.org/2009/10/jekyll-island-and-the-telephone/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/09/merchant-trading-network-burials-threatened/ http://thesga.org/2009/09/merchant-trading-network-burials-threatened/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:52:40 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3924 Quick: where in the world is the largest concentration of Bronze Age graves? Can't you just guess that they might be threatened by development? Read on….]]> http://thesga.org/2009/09/merchant-trading-network-burials-threatened/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/09/touring-the-coast-tybee-island-lighthouse/ http://thesga.org/2009/09/touring-the-coast-tybee-island-lighthouse/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:00:37 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3777 National Geographic Traveler has highlighted fifty "Drives of a Lifetime." A route along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts is one of the trips discussed. Several small detours would take you to enjoyable historic places like the Tybee Island lighthouse.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/09/touring-the-coast-tybee-island-lighthouse/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/08/blood-mountain-shelter/ http://thesga.org/2009/08/blood-mountain-shelter/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:00:29 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=574 The Blood Mountain shelter on the Appalachian Trail provokes thoughts about the network of prehistoric footpaths that criss-crossed Georgia.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/08/blood-mountain-shelter/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/08/summer-fieldwork-at-poverty-point-dates-enigmatic-buried-features/ http://thesga.org/2009/08/summer-fieldwork-at-poverty-point-dates-enigmatic-buried-features/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:42:02 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3750 A crew of students lead by Diana Greenlee of the Department of Geosciences at University of Louisiana at Monroe tested buried circles in the plaza area of the famous Poverty Point site in northeast Louisiana this summer and was able to date the features they tested. This important civic-ceremonial site dates to the Terminal Archaic and is open to the public.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/08/summer-fieldwork-at-poverty-point-dates-enigmatic-buried-features/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/08/savannahs-revolutionary-war-battle-detailed/ http://thesga.org/2009/08/savannahs-revolutionary-war-battle-detailed/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:53:01 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3623 The Coastal Heritage Society of Savannah has been sponsoring archaeological research on Revolutionary War archaeological sites across the city as part of the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program (your tax dollars at work!). The report of this highly successful research is now complete, and available as a downloadable PDF.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/08/savannahs-revolutionary-war-battle-detailed/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/08/one-more-archaeological-mystery-solved%e2%80%a6/ http://thesga.org/2009/08/one-more-archaeological-mystery-solved%e2%80%a6/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:32:32 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3615 The July 2009 issue of the Smithsonian magazine has an article by Barbara Krieger that details the research lead by Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University at the hilltop fortress palace that the Biblical King Herod built to eventually house his mausoleum. The exact location of his burial place, however, become lost to history, and remained an archaeological mystery until 2007.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/08/one-more-archaeological-mystery-solved%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/07/etowah-hours-reduced-nighttime-tour-planned/ http://thesga.org/2009/07/etowah-hours-reduced-nighttime-tour-planned/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:10:41 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3600 The famous Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site, just south of Cartersville, is now only open Thursdays through Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm. On Saturday, the 3rd of October, however, you can join a special evening walking tour of the site by torchlight.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/07/etowah-hours-reduced-nighttime-tour-planned/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/07/road-trip-augustas-springfield-community/ http://thesga.org/2009/07/road-trip-augustas-springfield-community/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:54:44 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3458 Next time you're in Augusta, go downtown and visit the Springfield community. Springfield community is just west of the original downtown Augusta, right on the river. The community was a free African American community established around the time of the Revolutionary War. The heart of the community was and is Springfield Baptist Church, which was probably established between 1787 and 1793.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/07/road-trip-augustas-springfield-community/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/ http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:00:26 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=100 Peoples with material culture common across the North American Southeast lived even farther north than the area around Criel Mound, in western West Virginia. Even if you're most interested in Georgia's archaeological past, you can best understand it in a regional context….]]> http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/05/who-made-the-laclede-king-brick-the-answer/ http://thesga.org/2009/05/who-made-the-laclede-king-brick-the-answer/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 10:26:58 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3001 Dick Brunelle has revealed the answer to the challenge he posed to readers almost two months ago, since no one logged in and submitted the answer. He asked people who made a brick he saw in LaGrange with "LACLEDE KING" stamped on it. As a tease, he noted: The brick is more closely related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, than it is to covered bridges in Georgia. Ed. note: You must read the full story; it's wonderful!]]> http://thesga.org/2009/05/who-made-the-laclede-king-brick-the-answer/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/03/who-made-this-brick/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/who-made-this-brick/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:54:30 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2574 Identify the maker of a brick GAAS and SGA member Dick Brunelle found and photographed at Hills and Dales, the Callaway family plantation near LaGrange, and shown in the picture to the left. Dick even gives two hints to make this puzzle easier….]]> http://thesga.org/2009/03/who-made-this-brick/feed/ 1 http://thesga.org/2009/03/gum-creek-courthouse/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/gum-creek-courthouse/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:00:53 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=615 The wooden building known as Gum Creek Courthouse is over a century old, and can be viewed in northern Newton County.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/03/gum-creek-courthouse/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2008/10/2008-fall-meeting/ http://thesga.org/2008/10/2008-fall-meeting/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:09:03 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=153 http://thesga.org/2008/10/2008-fall-meeting/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2007/04/more-than-a-fort/ http://thesga.org/2007/04/more-than-a-fort/#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:22:33 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1656 http://thesga.org/2007/04/more-than-a-fort/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/ http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:22:03 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1663 http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/feed/ 0