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Archaeology in the Classroom

This 1992 special issue of Early Georgia provides useful, detailed information for teachers for using archaeological concepts and data in the classroom. Lesson plans and projects included.

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Vol. 39, No. 1	2011-Spring	Table of Contents coming soon; issue has been mailed to SGA members
Vol. 38, No. 2	2010-Fall	Editor’s Introduction Thomas J. Pluckhahn Guest Editor’s Introduction Pamela Johnson Baughman Peer-Reviewed Articles The Life and Work of Joseph Ralston Caldwell (1916–1973) Pamela Johnson Baughman How New is My Archaeology: Interacting with Joseph Caldwell Robert L. Hall Primary Forest Efficiency in the Eastern Woodlands of North America David H. Dye and Patty Jo Watson The Importance of Woodstock Complicated Stamped Ceramics Fifty Years after Caldwell Julie G. Markin The Deptford Site: Reconfigured and Revisited Victoria G. Dekle Articles “Gulfization” Revisited: Household Change in the Late Woodland Period at Kolomoki (9ER1) Thomas J. Pluckhahn Personal Reflections on Joseph R. Caldwell My Memories of Joe Caldwell Marshall “Woody” Williams Personal Reflections on Graduate Study with Joseph Caldwell Dick Jefferies Joseph Caldwell: A Brief Remembrance Mark Williams Dr. Joseph Caldwell’s Last Year W. Dean Wood Obituary Frank Theodore Schnell, Jr. (1940-2010) Terry Jackson Review Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut, by Paul R. Williams Brent R. Weisman
Vol. 38, No. 1	2010-Spring	Editor’s Introduction Thomas J. Pluckhahn Peer-Reviewed Articles Reconstructing the Life Histories of Bolen Hafted Bifaces from a North Florida Archaeological Site Robert J. Austin and Scott E. Mitchell An Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Appraisal of a Piled Stone Feature Complex in the Mountains of North Georgia Johannes (Jannie) Loubser and Douglas Frink Articles Historic Site Methodology on the Georgia Piedmont: Case Studies from the Oconee National Forest James Wettstaed New Data on the Number and Distribution of Archaeological Sites in Georgia by Time and Space Mark Williams, John A. Turck, and John F. Chamblee Obituary Samuel J. Lawson III (1951–2009) Stephen A. Hammack Reviews The Archaeology of Regions: A Case for Full Coverage Survey, edited by Suzanne K. Fish and Stephen A. Kowalewski Charlotte A. Smith Bilbo (9CH4) and Delta (38JA23): Late Archaic and Early Woodland Shell Mounds at the Mouth of the Savannah River, by Morgan R. Crook, Jr. John A. Turck From Santa Elena to St. Augustine: Indiginous Ceramic Variability (A.D. 1400-1700), edited by Kathleen Deagan and David Hurst Thomas Norma Harris
Vol. 37, No. 2	2009-Fall	Editor’s Introduction Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Stephen A. Hammack Peer-Reviewed Articles Seventy Years of Research of Architecture at a Muscogee Creek Town at Fort Benning, Georgia Thomas Foster The Archaeology of Robins Air Force Base, Houston County, Georgia Stephen A. Hammack Historic Mills in the Sand Hills of Fort Gordon, Georgia Renee Lewis, J.W. Joseph, and Mary Beth Reed Protohistoric Period Ceramics at King’s Bay, Camden County, Georgia Carolyn Rock Article Three Decades of Archaeological Investigations and Cultural Resource Mangagement at Fort Stewart, Georgia Brian K. Greer Obituary James Cowan Waggoner, Jr. (1971–2009) John Chamblee, Victor Thompson, and Thomas J. Pluckhahn Reviews The Beads of St. Catherine’s Island, By Elliott H. Blair, Lorann S.A. Pendleton, and Peter Francis, Jr. Bernard Marcoux The Archaeology of Town Creek, by Edmond A. Boudreaux Ramie A. Gougeon Subfloor Pits and the Archaeology of Slavery in Colonial Virginia, by Patricia Samford Shannon McVey
Vol. 37, No. 1	2009-Spring	Editor’s Introduction Thomas J. Pluckhahn Peer-Reviewed Article Gum Ponds and Cypress Swamps: Late Archaic Use of Upland Inter-Riverine Resources in the Dougherty Plain of Southwest Georgia author author Articles The Woodland Period North of the Fal Line: A Summary of Investigations from 1975 to 2000 Patrick H. Garrow Passport In Time at Scull Shoals, 1997–2003 Jack T. Wynn The First Tears of the Trail: Archaeological Investigation of Potential Cherokee Removal Fort Sites in Georgia Ronald Hobgood Reviews Architectural Variability in the Southeast, edited by Cameron H. Lacquement Benjamin A. Steere Circular Villages of the Monongahela, by Bernard K. Means Maureen Meyers
Vol. 36, No. 2	2008-Fall	Editor’s Introduction Thomas J. Pluckhahn Early History of Indians Along the Piedmont Savannah and Oconee Rivers Mark Williams The Lamar Tradition Mark Williams Shedding New Light on Middle Georgia: The Ocmulgee River Basin Archaeological Project Sttephen A. Hammack New Historical Data on an Old Archaeological Site: The Shoulderbone Mounds Mark Williams, Robin Beck, Jerald Ledbetter, Dan Elliott, and Woody Williams A Fresh Look at the Singer-Moye Site Mound Site, Stewart County, Georgia M. Jared Wood and Mark Williams Reviews The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville, by Gregory D. Wilson Casey R. Barrier Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Context, edited by Adam King Nancy Marie White Native American Landscapes of St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia, by David Hurst Thomas Victor D. Thompson
Vol. 36, No. 1	2008-Spring	Residential and Communal Landscapes at the Ford Plantation Development, Richmond Hill, Georgia Thomas G. Whitley South of Hell’s Gate: Life at the North End Plantation, Ossasbaw Island, Georgia Daniel T. Elliott Necessity of Commodity? An Analysis of the Ford Plantation Colonoware, Bryan County, Georgia Nicole Isenbarger Home-Crafted Brock Grave Markers in the African-American Section of Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, GA James J. D’Angelo A City Slave is Almost A Freeman…Or Not? Rita F. Elliott Springfield: An Archaeological History of a Free African-American Community from the Revolution to the Civil War J.W. Joseph
Vol. 35, No. 2	2007-Fall	African-American Life in Georgia Through the Archaeological Looking Glass J.W. Joseph Data Recovery Excavations at the St. Anne’s Slave Settlement, St.Simon’s Island, Georgia Scott Butler African American Contributors to Savannah’s Historic Landscape Landownership and Hardship: Interpreting the Landscape of an African-American Community in Eastern Gwinnett County, Georgia Bradford Botwick Landownership and Hardship: Interpreting the Landscape of an African-American Community in Eastern Gwinnett County, Georgia Jeffrey L. Holland Archaeology of a Tenant Farming Landscape: The Free Cabin Site, Hephzibah, Georgia Natalie Adams and Mark Swanson
Vol. 35, No. 1	2007-Spring	Teardrops, Ladders, and Bull’s Eyes: Swift Creek on the Georgia Coast Keith Ashley, Keith Stephenson, and Frankie Snow Experimental Studies in Diabase Scott Jones and Mark Williams Validating “Daltonite” Within Greater Classification of Lithic Resources in the Interior Coastal Plain James C. Waggoner, Jr. and Scott Jones An Assessment of Stubby Stem Points Scott Jones A Sketch of the Pine Indian Cave Corra Harris Revisitng Arthur Kelly’s 1951 Field School and the Corra Harris Cave from Bartow County Andrea E. Adams
Vol. 34, No. 2	2006-Fall	Prehistory of the Stuckey Tract, Bleckley County, Georgia Scot J. Keith
Vol. 34, No. 1	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
Vol. 33, No. 2	2005-Fall	An Experimantal 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	2005-Spring	Special Issue: Site Loss in Georgia Click here to download in PDF format. When the Past is Destroyed: Loss of Archaeological Sites Due to Urbanization Stephen A. Kowalewski Land-Use Change and Impact on Archaeological Site in Georgia Malcolm Jared Wood and Gregory Lucas A Strategy for Conservation Archaeology in Georgia Terry Jackson and Jack Tyler
Vol. 32, No. 2	2004-Fall	Natural Factors Affecting the Setttlement of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northwestern Georgia Maureen S. Meyers The Changing Face of Georgia Archaeology: 1974–2004 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	2004-June	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; with contributions by Dona M. Shaw and Sammie Stooksbury Fort Hawkins Reconstruction Bill 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, Augusta Rita Elliott
Vol. 31, No. 2	2003-October	Human Prehistory at the Sadlers Landing Site, Camden County Georgia S. Dwight Kirkland
Vol. 31, No. 1	2003-June	New Data from the Cannon Site: A Thirteenth-Century Burial from Lake Blackshear George Price and Bryan Tucker Clarence Bloomfield Moore’s Unpublished Excavations on St. Simon’s 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 Sybols 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	2002-October	Water Dumps and Kiln Footprints: Introduction to the Archaeology of Georgia Folk Pottery Production Sites James A. Burrison Archaeological Investigations of Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Potteries in Northern Washington County, Georgia William R. Jordan The Gunters: The Migration of 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 Sites William R. Bowen and Linda F. Carnes
Vol. 30, No. 1	2002	An Overview of Georgia Projectile Points and Selected Cutting Tools John S. Whatley No longer available
Vol. 29, No. 2	2001-October	Editor’s Introduction Adam King Archaeological Investigations of the Vulcan Site, Bartow County, Georgia R. Jerald Ledbetter, Thomas Neumann, Mary Spink, and Andrea Shea Some Comments on the Vulcan Site Lithic Raw Material Choices and Tool Technologies Scott Jones
Vol. 29, No. 1	2001-May	Special Issue: 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 Charlotte A. Smith What is Archaeology? How Exploring the Past Enriches the Present Jennifer Freer Harris and Charlotte A. Smith Why is Archaeology Important? Global Perspectives, Local Concerns Charlotte A. Smith and Jennifer Freer Harris 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 Scott Jones Archaeological Resource Protection in Georgia: Federal, State, and Local Legislation and Programs Jennifer Freer Harris This Is Not Your Mother’s SGA Rita Folse Elliot Sprawl and the Destruction of Georgia’s Archaeological Resources Charlotte A. Smith and Jennifer Freer Harris The Future of Georgia’s Archaeological Resources: Transforming Citizens into Defenders Charlotte A. Smith and Jennifer Freer Harris Jargon Commonly Used by Archaeologists: Glossary of Terms Jennifer Freer Harris No longer available
Vol. 28, No. 2	2000	Introduction J.W. Joseph Research Design and Field Results John S. Cable and H.S. Gard Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Soil Consequence D.S. Leigh Cultural Features Leslie E. Raymer Zooarchaeological Results Lisa D. O’Steen Archaeobotanical Analysis Leslie E. Raymer and Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund Early and Middle Woodland Occupations John S. Cable Late Woodland and Etowah Occupations John S. Cable Qualla/Lamar Occupations John S. Cable and Mary Beth Reed
Vol. 28, No. 1	2000	Archaeological Site Distributions in Georgia: 2000 Mark Williams The Rise and Fall of the Westoe Indians: An Evaluation of the Documentary Evidence Eric E. Bowne Rocky Top Field Trip: Lithic Resources of Northeast Georgia
Vol. 27, No. 2	1999	Soil Analysis and Prehistoric Agricultrual Fields: Ocmulgee National Monument, Mound D Dawn Reid Vining Phase Excavations on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest Maureen Meyers, Jack Wynn, Ramie Gougeon, Betsy Shirk From the Photographic Archives: The WPA in Georgia Amanda McDaniel, James A. Page
Vol. 27, No. 1	1999	A Guide to Georgia Indian Pottery Types Mark Williams and Victor Thompson No longer available
Vol. 26, No. 2	1998	Archaeological Salvage of the Plant Hammond Site John F. Chamblee, Thomas Neumann, and Barnet Pavao
Vol. 26, No. 1	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	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	1997	Refining Soapstone Vessel Chronology in the Southeast Kenneth A. Sassaman Rethinking Early Mississippian Chrononlogy and Cultural Contact in Central Georgia: A View from Tarver (9JO6) Thomas J. Pluckhahn The Fishing Creek Survey John F. Chamblee
Vol. 24, No. 2	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	1996	An Appraisal of Tenant Farmer Health and Diet in Central Georgia: Results of the Redfield Cemetery Study Chad O. Braley and William G. Moffat Cacheing Behavior in Northwest Georgia in the Middle Woodland Period Dawn Reid Upland Lamar, Vining, and Cartersville: An Interim Report from Raccoon Ridge John Worth
Vol. 23, No. 2	1995	Investigation of Upland Piedmont Lamar Site 9HK64 Dennis B. Blanton The “Amateur” Archaeologist 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	1995	Quartz Passports of the Morrow Mountain Middle Archaic in the Savannah River Drainage Robert W. Benson Putting the Ogeechee in Its Place Kenneth A. Sassaman, Kristin J. Wilson, and Frankie Snow Archaeological Testing at the Brassell Site (9GL6), Glascock County, Georgia Kenneth E. Sassaman The Lewis Mound and the Mississippian Period Settlement of Fort Stewart , Georgia Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Vol. 22, No. 2	1994	The Walker Street Site, 9ME60 David W. Chase and Harold A. Huscher; edited and with contributions by R. Jerald Ledbetter
Vol. 22, No. 1	1994	Mississippian Settlement in the Upper Oconee and Upper Broad River Valleys Thomas J. Pluckhahn Archaeological Distributions in Georgia: 1994 Mark Williams
Vol. 21, No. 2	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 Excavations 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 O. Braley
Vol. 21, No. 1	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	1992	In Search of True Flint Walter G. Jung II Upland Mississppian Occupation of 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
Vol. 20, No. 1	1992	Archaeology in the Classroom: By Teachers for Teachers—Used Archaeology: Practical Classroom Ideas for Teachers by Teachers Click here to download in PDF format. Guest Editor: Rita Folse Elliot Adventures in Elementary Archaeology Michael C. Turner Sifting Through a Middle School Archaeology Program W. Maxwell Duke Collecting Artifacts from the Surface Thomas Pluckhan Archaeology and Anthropology for Second and Third Graders Margaret Wood Indians, Archaeology of Georgia, and Middle School Students Carol Brown and Carol Buhler Dig It!: A Children’s Summer Workshop in Archaeology Julie Barnes Smith The National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program in Archaeology at Old Mobile Marvin T. Smith and Gregory A. Waselkov New Ebenezer: A Sweaty Volunteer’s Account Stephen Reynolds No longer available
Vol. 19, No. 2	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 Mill Branch Sites, Warren County, Georgia R. Jerald Ledbetter Mississippian Settlement in the Savannah River Basin David G. Anderson Historical Archaeology at SRS: The Current State of Knowledge David Crass and Richard Brooks Black Labor–White Land: The Archaeology 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	1991	The Vining Revival: A Late Simple Stamped Phase in the Central Georgia Piedmont Daniel T. Elliot 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, No. 1&2	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, No. 1&2	1989	The Balfour Mound and WeedenIsland 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. Elliot and Steven A. Kowalewski
Vol. 16, No. 1&2	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, No. 1&2	1987	La Tama de la Tierra Adentro (The Tama of the Interior) Samuel J. Lawson III A Preliminary Seriation of Coffin Hardware Forms in Ninetenth and Twentieth Century Georgia Patrick H. Garrow Swift Creek Occupation in the Altamaha Delta Lucy B. Wayne author author
Vol. 14, No. 1&2	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. Elliot, 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, No. 1&2	1985	A Sixteenth-Century European Sword form 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, No. 1&2	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 of 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, No. 1&2	1983	The Wallace Reservoir Archaeological Project: An Overview Paul R. Fish and David J. Hally Vegetational History of the Wallace Resevoir Elisabeth S. Sheldon Subsurface Testing in the 1974-75 Wallace Resevoir Survey: Site Discovery and Site Exploration Applications Chester B. DePratter The Site Plan at Cold Springs, 9GE10 Suzanne K. Fish and Richard W. Jefferies 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, No. 1&2	1982	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 River After DeSoto: The Beginning of the End Mark Williams Domestic Architecture and Domestic Activities in the Native South David J. Hally
Vol. 9, No. 1&2	1981	Chert of Southern Oconee County, Georgia R. Jerald Ledbetter, Stephen A. Kowaleski and Linda O’Steen Finch’s Survey Daniel T. Elliot 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 County, 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, No. 1&2	1980	Tentative Identification of a Prehistoric “Province” in Piedmont Georgia Marvin T. Smith and Stephen A. Kowalewski A Discussion of Misssissippian 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 Marsh Ecology at a Late Archaic Shellmound, Chatham Co., Georgia Terry Martin
Vol. 7, No. 2	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 C. Cook
Vol. 7, No. 1	1979	The Historic Cabin Site: The Last Trace of the Cherokee Town of Coosawatee Patrick H. Garrow Historic Demography and Ethnographic Analogy Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish The Anthropology of the Georgia Coast: A Reference Guide Clark Spencer Larsen
Vol. 6, No. 1&2	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 Location Analysis of the Late Misissippian 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 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 Weight From Bone Weight Charles E. Pearson
Vol. 5, No. 1&2	1977-September	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 T. Steinen
Vol. 4, No. 1&2	1976-September	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 of 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. Steinen
Vol. 3, No. 2	1975-December	The James Lee Rockshelter: A Prehistoric, Stratified, Limited Camp on Lookout Mountain James A. Brown A Preliminary Report on Test Excavations at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Daniel K. Simpkins Swift Creek Designs and Distributions: A South Georgia Study F.H. Snow
Vol. 3, No. 1	1975-June	The Archaic in Georgia Chester B. DePratter The Woodland Period North of the Fall Line Patrick H. Garrow The Woodland Period South of the Fall Line Frank T. Schnell The Mississippi Period David J. Hally Lamar and the Creeks: An Old Controversy Revisited Margaret Clayton Howell Comments on the Papers Joseph R. Caldwell
Vol. 2, No. 2	1957-Spring	Foreward Dicksie Bradley Bandy The Chief Vann House, The Vanns, Tavern and Ferry Clemens de Baillou The Cherokees Become a Civilized Tribe Henry T. Malone No longer available
Vol. 2, No. 1	1955-Summer	The Columbus Museum of Arts and History Margaret S. Bloomer The Gallery of Indian Arts and Crafts Eugene Cline The Abercrombie Mound, Russell County, Alabama Charles H. Fairbanks Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Middle Chattahoochee River Valley Joseph R. Caldwell Bibliography for Research Papers in this Issue Communications and Reviews No longer available
Vol. 1, No. 4	1955-Spring	Chronology of New Echota R.D. Self New Echota—Capitol of the Cherokee Nation Henry T. Malone Symbols of a Civilization that Perished in its Infancy J. Roy McGinty Excavations at New Echota in 1954 Clemens de Baillou Isobel Garrard Patterson No longer available
Vol. 1, No. 3	1954-Fall	The Georgia Historical Commission C.E. Gregory The Chief Joseph Vann House Joseph B. Mahan The White House in Augusta, Georgia Clemens de Baillou The Spanish Mission Site Near Darien Sheila K. Caldwell Georgia Historical Commission Excavations at Etowah, Summer, 1954 Lewis H. Larson, Jr. New Echota Clemens de Baillou Recent Discoveries in Georgia No longer available
Vol. 1, No. 2	1950-Fall	The Study of Sites A.R. Kelly Hunting Petroglyphs in North Georgia Margaret Perryman Georgia Archaeologists Before the Camera George Stoney Reconstruction of the Woodstock Fort Sheila Kelly Caldwell Standing Peach Tree Wilbur Kurtz, Sr. News and Notes No longer available
Vol. 1, No. 1	1950-Summer	What Are Artifacts A.R. Kelly A Preliminary Report on the Excavations in the Allatoona Reservoir Joseph R. Caldwell Kolomoki William Sears Survey of the Lower Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers A.R. Kelly Notes on the Exploration of the Bull Creek Site, Columbus, Georgia Mrs. Wayne Patterson A Sketch of the Pine Log Indian Cave Corra Harris News and Notes No longer available

Archaeology in the Classroom

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Long-time SGA member Rita Elliott edited this 1992 special issue of Early Georgia; its full title is ‚“Archaeology in the Classroom: By Teachers for Teachers—Used Archaeology: Practical Classroom Ideas for Teachers by Teachers.” Notes Ms. Elliott in the Foreward:

Welcome to a new partnership. The past decade has seen a growing relationship between the world of professional educators and professional archaeologists-a relationship that can be mutually beneficial. The growing crisis in our schools, symbolized by low test scores, high drop-out rates, drugs, violence, and boredom, and fueled by economic problems, decreases in federal and state educational funding, latch-key students, single-parent families, students living below the poverty level, lack of role models, and over-indulgence in television, has thrown educators into a precarious and unenviable position.

At the same time, archaeologists are struggling with major assaults on non-renewable cultural resources throughout the country. Intensive development, particularly in the Sunbelt region of the southeastern United States, destroys countless archaeological sites daily-sites unprotected by federal and state laws. Site vandals and “looters” trash archaeological sites while searching for intact or unusual artifacts that they hope will bring a hefty price in the collectors’ market. An increasingly weak economy has led to major cutbacks in government and private grants supporting archaeological research.

The unpleasant dilemmas faced by both educators and archaeologists have resulted in an amazing revelation. These two seemingly unconnected problems can be addressed simultaneously. Archaeology is a wonderful medium for enticing students to learn because it is exciting, adventurous, and mysterious. Archaeology is the perfect vehicle for educators because its multidisciplinary nature allows it to address many of the Quality Core Curriculum objectives mandated by the state of Georgia, including visual arts, science, English and Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies. It improves students’ skills in logic, interpretation, research, and problem solving while enabling students to become aware and tolerant of other cultures, work together in groups, improve self-confidence, and actually discover that learning can be fun!

Students, however, are not the only beneficiaries of an archaeology curriculum in the classroom. Archaeologists finally will be able to enjoy the rewards of a grass-roots archaeological education. An educated and informed public is a public that will support legislative protection of archaeological sites. It is a public that will slowly turn from artifact collectors to site recorders, from purchasers of illegally obtained artifacts to prosecutors of site vandals. Some in the archaeological community protest the introduction of archaeology into the school system on the basis that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. What better rebuttal is there than examining the status quo? Dedicated educators (and everyone who embraces an archaeology curriculum) know and stress the importance of site preservation, ethics, and professional supervision. What better or more numerous heralds could the professional community have than educators throughout the state and the country?

Volume 20, Number 1 of Early Georgia‚ “Used Archaeology: Practical Classroom Ideas for Teachers, by Teachers” has been prepared with the goals of both educators and archaeologists at the forefront. It is hoped that it will help fill a void in the state of Georgia and perhaps be a useful model or stepping stone for others with the same aims.

This issue has two main sections. The first has a series of first-person experiences authored by teachers who have used archaeology in the classroom. The second main section discusses a series of archaeologically-related activities teachers have found successful in their classrooms.

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Archaeology in the Classroom