http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2012/01/combating-damage-and-deterioration-of-artifacts/ http://thesga.org/2012/01/combating-damage-and-deterioration-of-artifacts/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=10309 Museums and other institutions store and display artifacts. Curators—the professionals who care for artifact collections in museums and other institutions that preserve artifacts—must be very careful to make sure that artifacts are preserved and not damaged while in their care. Read about many potential agents of deterioration, degradation, and destruction in the full article.]]> http://thesga.org/2012/01/combating-damage-and-deterioration-of-artifacts/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/08/camp-lawton-artifact-news/ http://thesga.org/2011/08/camp-lawton-artifact-news/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:00:33 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9372 Georgia Southern University’s archaeology team has announced more artifacts that have been identified from Camp Lawton. Camp Lawton was a Confederate prisoner of war camp located just outside of Millen. The camp was occupied for only six weeks before evacuations began in the middle of the night on November 26, 1864, as the Union army approached during Sherman’s March to the Sea. “The amount of artifacts and the variety of artifacts we are finding at this site is stunning,” said Georgia Southern archaeology professor and director of the project Dr. Sue Moore. Dr. Moore is a Past President of the Society for Georgia Archaeology. This story considers a trade token found by archaeologists that was issued in 1863 by a grocer-wholesaler in Niles, Michigan.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/08/camp-lawton-artifact-news/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/07/in-the-national-park-system-cultural-resources-%e2%80%9care-in-serious-trouble%e2%80%9d/ http://thesga.org/2011/07/in-the-national-park-system-cultural-resources-%e2%80%9care-in-serious-trouble%e2%80%9d/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:00:17 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9166 A June 2011 report called The State of America’s National Parks warns on page 25 “that cultural resources in the National Park System—considered the most important to our country’s heritage—are in serious trouble. In fact, these places and collections are being maintained in a condition well below the level that the National Park Service itself has deemed appropriate.” The report concludes on page 27 that the reason this has happened is that “[t]here simply aren’t enough qualified and trained people overseeing the parks’ cultural heritage.” Given the many National Park System properties with an historic or archaeological slant in Georgia (e.g., Ocmulgee National Monument and the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site), are you surprised at this situation?]]> http://thesga.org/2011/07/in-the-national-park-system-cultural-resources-%e2%80%9care-in-serious-trouble%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/02/visit-harvards-peabody-museum-collection-online/ http://thesga.org/2011/02/visit-harvards-peabody-museum-collection-online/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:00:24 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=8063 In the March 2011 issue of American Anthropologist, Meg Gaillard reviews the website of the online collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Take a look at the review and the online collection and see pictures of artifacts from Georgia, and some information about the conditions under which they came into the collection. The article considers a "groundstone bowl fragment" as an example of this useful online collection.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/02/visit-harvards-peabody-museum-collection-online/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/01/archaeology-meeting-and-pottery-washing-january-12th-at-new-echota/ http://thesga.org/2011/01/archaeology-meeting-and-pottery-washing-january-12th-at-new-echota/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:09:07 +0000 Kelly http://thesga.org/?p=7626 On Thursday, January 13, 2011, we will have our annual “pottery washing” event and workshop at New Echota Historic Site located near Calhoun. This is part of our regularly scheduled meetings of the Northwest Georgia Archaeology Society meeting. The meeting will start at 7:00pm. The public is enthusiastically encouraged to attend.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/01/archaeology-meeting-and-pottery-washing-january-12th-at-new-echota/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/03/what-is-nagpra/ http://thesga.org/2010/03/what-is-nagpra/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:39:17 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5307 NAGPRA stands for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. NAGPRA is a federal law. In March 2010, NAGPRA has been in the news three times….]]> http://thesga.org/2010/03/what-is-nagpra/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/02/artifacts-and-context/ http://thesga.org/2010/02/artifacts-and-context/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:47 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5002 This Weekly Ponder considers artifacts and context, defining and discussing how archaeologists use these terms and what that means for interpretation of artifacts—and sites. The Ponder goes on to consider the context of the Shroud of Turin, which will be on display in spring 2010, in Turin, Italy.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/02/artifacts-and-context/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/02/iron-gall-ink-on-parchment/ http://thesga.org/2010/02/iron-gall-ink-on-parchment/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:20 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4724 What is iron gall ink? Parchment is a common term, but what is that ink? Colonial-period documents were commonly written in iron gall ink. Georgia's copy of the Declaration of Independence was. Even Bach and Da Vinci used it! Read more about this ink in the full story. Find out how many kinds of trees it takes to make the ink, too!]]> http://thesga.org/2010/02/iron-gall-ink-on-parchment/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/12/new-metal-artifact-preservation-method-explored/ http://thesga.org/2009/12/new-metal-artifact-preservation-method-explored/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:23:16 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4668 On 27 December 2009, the online version of Charleston's Post and Courier published a fascinating story by Tony Bartelme titled "Research on Hunley spurs new discoveries." The new discoveries relate to faster methods for preserving metal artifacts, like the H.L. Hunley Confederate Civil War submarine, which sunk near Charleston in February 1864.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/12/new-metal-artifact-preservation-method-explored/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/12/discovery-of-unknown-cemeteries-at-hunter-army-airfield-sheds-light-on-a-forgotten-past/ http://thesga.org/2009/12/discovery-of-unknown-cemeteries-at-hunter-army-airfield-sheds-light-on-a-forgotten-past/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:00:10 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4425 Researchers at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah identified two historic-period cemeteries. One had been buried beneath a parking lot for over fifty years; it had thirty-seven graves. A second cemetery was identified from an 1889 map as a "Negro Cemetery," and had well over three hundred burials. All human remains and artifacts were carefully excavated and respectfully moved to Belmont Cemetery, and the Installation’s Garrison Commander and Chaplain participated in a rededication ceremony in conjunction with African-American History Month in February 2009. Article includes photographs of selected grave goods.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/12/discovery-of-unknown-cemeteries-at-hunter-army-airfield-sheds-light-on-a-forgotten-past/feed/ 1 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/2009/08/considering-taxonomies-in-the-twenty-first-century/ http://thesga.org/2009/08/considering-taxonomies-in-the-twenty-first-century/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:00:02 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3761 Archaeologists use and develop taxonomies, or systems for classifying artifacts, etc. That fewer people are proficient in taxonomic classification these days is alleged in a recent article. Read more about classification systems in general, and generalized categories, e.g., for bushes, trees, and vines, that are common in multiple cultures.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/08/considering-taxonomies-in-the-twenty-first-century/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/05/uga-lab/ http://thesga.org/2009/05/uga-lab/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:59 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=496 For decades, the University of Georgia had two archaeology laboratories in Baldwin Hall (Athens).]]> http://thesga.org/2009/05/uga-lab/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/ 2 http://thesga.org/2009/04/what-to-curate/ http://thesga.org/2009/04/what-to-curate/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:00:31 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=571 What standards do curators use to decide to keep objects in their limited museum space? After all, space is limited, in museums just as in your closet. So, how do curators decide what to keep and what not to keep?]]> http://thesga.org/2009/04/what-to-curate/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/03/open-house%e2%80%94antonio-j-waring-jr-archaeological-laboratory/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/open-house%e2%80%94antonio-j-waring-jr-archaeological-laboratory/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:25:16 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2216 http://thesga.org/2009/03/open-house%e2%80%94antonio-j-waring-jr-archaeological-laboratory/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2008/10/1018/ http://thesga.org/2008/10/1018/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:22:57 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/2009/01/1018/ http://thesga.org/2008/10/1018/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2006/12/waring-lab-collaborating-with-gdot-on-curation-project/ http://thesga.org/2006/12/waring-lab-collaborating-with-gdot-on-curation-project/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:22:47 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2444 http://thesga.org/2006/12/waring-lab-collaborating-with-gdot-on-curation-project/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2006/03/st-catherines-island-archaeological-collection-at-fernbank/ http://thesga.org/2006/03/st-catherines-island-archaeological-collection-at-fernbank/#comments Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:22:49 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2043 http://thesga.org/2006/03/st-catherines-island-archaeological-collection-at-fernbank/feed/ 0