http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2010/12/early-historic-native-american-world-view-presented-in-fiction/ http://thesga.org/2010/12/early-historic-native-american-world-view-presented-in-fiction/#comments Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:00:46 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=7215 Charles Hudson, in his 2003 novel, Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), relies in part on archaeology to inform his presentation of imagined conversations between a Native American leader and a Spanish visitor in the early 1500s. Hudson used archaeological information along with archival materials to imagine the world views, or belief systems, of these two men from such different places and cultures. Coosa was a 16th-century chiefdom based in northwest Georgia. Consider how novelists have used archaeology to inform their stories….]]> http://thesga.org/2010/12/early-historic-native-american-world-view-presented-in-fiction/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/12/archaeologys-greatest-challenge-in-the-media/ http://thesga.org/2010/12/archaeologys-greatest-challenge-in-the-media/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:00:39 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=7208 Look into your crystal ball. What do you think the greatest challenge is to archaeology in the media? Zachary Nelson argues in the November 2010 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record, the newsletter of the Society for American Archaeology, that the profession's greatest challenge is…read the full article and see!]]> http://thesga.org/2010/12/archaeologys-greatest-challenge-in-the-media/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/11/cw-ceram-on-archaeology/ http://thesga.org/2010/11/cw-ceram-on-archaeology/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:00:27 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=7032 CW Ceram's Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology is a famous but dated book on archaeology, that for years was one of the few serious books on the subject that many people had read. Ceram thought that the practice of archaeology was both romantic and scholarly. In fact he wrote, "Yet in truth no science is more adventurous than archaeology…". Contemplate this and more that Ceram wrote….]]> http://thesga.org/2010/11/cw-ceram-on-archaeology/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/10/september-26-2010/ http://thesga.org/2010/10/september-26-2010/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:16:13 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6366 Abby the ArchaeoBus has updated her diary, with an entry describing some of her upcoming events, including attending CoastFest on October 7th, the Georgia National Fair for eleven days in mid-October, and the Georgia Conference on the Social Studies in Athens on October 28th and 29th. Check out the flyers, too!]]> http://thesga.org/2010/10/september-26-2010/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/07/picnic-foods-are-from%e2%80%a6where/ http://thesga.org/2010/07/picnic-foods-are-from%e2%80%a6where/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:00:09 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6035 Think about your favorite picnic foods, or the ones you're most likely to see on plates at a family reunion. Chicken, green beans, cornbread…(are you getting hungry?)…. From around the globe, where are these foods native to? North America?]]> http://thesga.org/2010/07/picnic-foods-are-from%e2%80%a6where/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/04/thinking-roads/ http://thesga.org/2010/04/thinking-roads/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:00:26 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5449 World-traveler Ted Conover argues in his new book that roads are our most extensive human artifact on earth. Travel routes can persist for centuries. Judging by historic footpaths, Georgia's prehistoric peoples tended to follow ridges, avoiding swamps and stream crossings. We know from the asssortment of artifacts found that ancient peoples traveled to places far away or traded with people who came from far away (like the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, and deep in the continental interior). What do we know of those travel routes and footpaths? How, for example, did peoples of the Leake Site, in northwest Georgia, cross the terrain and interact with peoples of far-flung places where Swift Creek-style decorated ceramics have also been found?]]> http://thesga.org/2010/04/thinking-roads/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/03/archaeology-blogs-ranked/ http://thesga.org/2010/03/archaeology-blogs-ranked/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:44:16 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5255 You might not agree with the order given, but some of the blogs in this list, "50 Best Blogs for Archaeology Students," may interest you….]]> http://thesga.org/2010/03/archaeology-blogs-ranked/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/02/dju-notice/ http://thesga.org/2010/02/dju-notice/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:17:13 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4837 Perhaps you watched Steve Jobs and other Apple people introduce the iPad on 27 January 2010…. Fans of archaeology might have noted that one of the major demonstrations, of the program Keynote, used the topic "Seven Wonders of the World," which focused on selected archaeological sites. What does it mean that they chose an archaeological topic to punch their high-profile product introduction?]]> http://thesga.org/2010/02/dju-notice/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/01/weekly-ponder-one-year-and-counting/ http://thesga.org/2010/01/weekly-ponder-one-year-and-counting/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:00:43 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4690 This story marks the first year of Weekly Ponder posts! Yes, it's been a full year of 5am Friday postings of thought-provoking articles to this website. Indeed, the very first Weekly Ponder was posted on 26 January 2009.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/01/weekly-ponder-one-year-and-counting/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/01/arrows-or-spears/ http://thesga.org/2010/01/arrows-or-spears/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:58:55 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4714 The Human Spark is a three-part series investigating the topic of human uniqueness hosted by Alan Alda. One of the interviewees, Dr. Veronica Waweru, discusses the pros and cons of arrow and spear use, along with other interesting topics, in a blog entry associated with the program's web pages.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/01/arrows-or-spears/feed/ 0 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/ownership-of-antiquities-and-the-international-art-market%e2%80%a6/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/ownership-of-antiquities-and-the-international-art-market%e2%80%a6/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:34 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4151 Who owns antiquities that have been removed beyond the borders of the modern nation where they were found? This topic is explored in the full article.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/ownership-of-antiquities-and-the-international-art-market%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/11/whats-up-with%e2%80%a62012/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/whats-up-with%e2%80%a62012/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:45 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4164 You've been hearing about the end of the world in 2012? Read the real dirt here! CLUE: NOT!]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/whats-up-with%e2%80%a62012/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/07/archaeology-from-reel-to-real/ http://thesga.org/2009/07/archaeology-from-reel-to-real/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:32:10 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3510 Wanna read about how "real archaeologists" compare what they do with what Indiana Jones does? The National Science Foundation (your tax dollars at work) funds archaeological projects, and the present an online "report" discussing what archaeologists the NSF has funded really do—in contrast to the behavior of Dr. Jones in the Steven Spielberg and George Lucas movies.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/07/archaeology-from-reel-to-real/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/03/new-experimental-archaeologyprimitive-technology-book/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/new-experimental-archaeologyprimitive-technology-book/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:50:03 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2185 http://thesga.org/2009/03/new-experimental-archaeologyprimitive-technology-book/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/03/archaeology-for-dummies/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/archaeology-for-dummies/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:45:27 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2195 http://thesga.org/2009/03/archaeology-for-dummies/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/01/motel-of-the-mysteries/ http://thesga.org/2009/01/motel-of-the-mysteries/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:55:42 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=50 http://thesga.org/2009/01/motel-of-the-mysteries/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2004/05/frontiers-in-the-soil-2nd-edition/ http://thesga.org/2004/05/frontiers-in-the-soil-2nd-edition/#comments Sun, 02 May 2004 02:22:23 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=484 http://thesga.org/2004/05/frontiers-in-the-soil-2nd-edition/feed/ 0