http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2011/11/columbian-exchange-quiz-results/ http://thesga.org/2011/11/columbian-exchange-quiz-results/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:00:10 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9993 For about three months, the SGA's website had a twelve-question quiz on the origins of commonly used species, mostly plants. The question posed was: is this species native to the Old World or the New World? The movement of plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds after Christopher Columbus’s First Expedition in 1492 is commonly referred to as the Columbian Exchange. Thus, the quiz provides insights into quiz-taker knowledge of the Columbian Exchange. Should you wish to take the quiz before reading the answers, click here.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/11/columbian-exchange-quiz-results/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/11/hilton-head-chapter-hosting-cgas-speaker/ http://thesga.org/2011/11/hilton-head-chapter-hosting-cgas-speaker/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:43:57 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9953 Chica Arndt, President of the Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society (CGAS), will be speaking at the Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, meeting of the Hilton Head Chapter of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina. The meeting is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn at 1 pm.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/11/hilton-head-chapter-hosting-cgas-speaker/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/05/understanding-the-mississippian-past-by-uniting-archaeology-and-history/ http://thesga.org/2011/05/understanding-the-mississippian-past-by-uniting-archaeology-and-history/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 09:00:05 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=8899 Archaeologists call the period when explorers from the Iberian peninsula first wandered through Georgia the Mississippian period. Charles Hudson, in Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun (1997), describes the clash of the two cultures that resulted, focusing on Hernando de Soto and the group of hundreds of soldiers, craftsmen, and hangers-on who traveled with him in the 1700s, and the people living in the towns they visited. What makes his book truly special is that he weaves together information from Spanish chroniclers with archaeological data, to produce a well-rounded tale of this poorly documented period in Georgia’s past.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/05/understanding-the-mississippian-past-by-uniting-archaeology-and-history/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/04/book-review-archaeological-encounters-with-georgias-spanish-period-1526-1700/ http://thesga.org/2011/04/book-review-archaeological-encounters-with-georgias-spanish-period-1526-1700/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:00:40 +0000 Kelly http://thesga.org/?p=8541 Recently, members of the SGA received Archaeological Encounters in Georgia's Spanish Period, 1526-1700: New Findings and Perspectives, edited by Dennis B. Blanton and Robert A. DeVillar. The SGA used the book to raise awareness of special topics in Georgia archaeology as well as reward its membership with the opportunity to receive special publications. Currently, all available copies have been distributed to the SGA membership and institutional members of SGA, such as libraries. If you are looking for this particular book, these libraries should have an available copy.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/04/book-review-archaeological-encounters-with-georgias-spanish-period-1526-1700/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/03/nwgas-march-10th-meeting-entitled-creek-and-cherokee-at-chattanooga%e2%80%99s-moccasin-bend-site/ http://thesga.org/2011/03/nwgas-march-10th-meeting-entitled-creek-and-cherokee-at-chattanooga%e2%80%99s-moccasin-bend-site/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:22:19 +0000 Kelly http://thesga.org/?p=8159 The Northwest Georgia Archaeology Society will hold a meeting Thursday, March 10th, 2011, at the Etowah Indian Mounds Site near Cartersville. The lecture presented by Dr. Nick Honerkamp of the University of Tennesse at Chattanooga is Creek and Cherokee at Chattanooga’s Moccasin Bend Site. Located at the toe of Lookout Mountain, Moccasin Bend is one of America’s most unique and scenic archaeological sites—located at a significant geographic and geologic crossroads.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/03/nwgas-march-10th-meeting-entitled-creek-and-cherokee-at-chattanooga%e2%80%99s-moccasin-bend-site/feed/ 0 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/2010/06/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/2010/03/report-on-bison-conservation-summarizes-bison-archaeology/ http://thesga.org/2010/03/report-on-bison-conservation-summarizes-bison-archaeology/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:27:21 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5150 The International Union for Conservation of Nature has recently released a report called American Bison: Status Survey and Conservation Guidelines 2010. The report discusses the current status of American bison (Bison bison). You may be interested in a discussion of the history of the bison that is included as background for the report's focus on conserving the species and the ecological restoration necessary to accomplish that for this large herbivore.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/03/report-on-bison-conservation-summarizes-bison-archaeology/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/2009/10/lecture-on-de-soto-at-fernbank-november-1st/ http://thesga.org/2009/10/lecture-on-de-soto-at-fernbank-november-1st/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:22:01 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3995 The Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta announces a lecture by SGA President and Fernbank Curator of Native American Archaeology Dennis Blanton, to be held on Sunday, November 1st, at 4 pm. The lecture is titled "De Soto’s Footsteps: New Archaeological Evidence in Georgia."]]> http://thesga.org/2009/10/lecture-on-de-soto-at-fernbank-november-1st/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/2009/04/read-the-text-of-william-bartrams-1791-travels%e2%80%a6/ http://thesga.org/2009/04/read-the-text-of-william-bartrams-1791-travels%e2%80%a6/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:34:08 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2810 Read William Bartram's Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians, published in 1791, right here on the internet. You will miss the experience of turning aging pages, but you can read every word, and see some pictures, too!]]> http://thesga.org/2009/04/read-the-text-of-william-bartrams-1791-travels%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/03/timeline/ http://thesga.org/2009/03/timeline/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:24:18 +0000 admin http://thesga.org/?p=1993 http://thesga.org/2009/03/timeline/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2008/05/archaeological-encounters-in-in-georgias-spanish-period/ http://thesga.org/2008/05/archaeological-encounters-in-in-georgias-spanish-period/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 10:55:43 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=643 http://thesga.org/2008/05/archaeological-encounters-in-in-georgias-spanish-period/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2008/04/archaeological-encounters-in-georgias-spanish-period/ http://thesga.org/2008/04/archaeological-encounters-in-georgias-spanish-period/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:22:42 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=655 http://thesga.org/2008/04/archaeological-encounters-in-georgias-spanish-period/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2007/12/gaas-busy-with-monthly-meetings/ http://thesga.org/2007/12/gaas-busy-with-monthly-meetings/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:22:15 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1307 http://thesga.org/2007/12/gaas-busy-with-monthly-meetings/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2006/06/broxton-rocks-wetlands-mitigation-tract-testing/ http://thesga.org/2006/06/broxton-rocks-wetlands-mitigation-tract-testing/#comments Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:22:58 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2024 http://thesga.org/2006/06/broxton-rocks-wetlands-mitigation-tract-testing/feed/ 0