http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:14:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2011/01/leake-site-talk-at-tellus-museum/ http://thesga.org/2011/01/leake-site-talk-at-tellus-museum/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:01:38 +0000 Kelly http://thesga.org/?p=7711 Scot Keith, Archaeologist and Principal Investigator with New South Associates will be giving a talk regarding the Leake site at the Tellus Science Museum near Cartersville, Thursday, February 3, 2011.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/01/leake-site-talk-at-tellus-museum/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/07/video-highlights-efforts-to-preserve-leake-site/ http://thesga.org/2010/07/video-highlights-efforts-to-preserve-leake-site/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:14:53 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6055 Kennesaw State University journalism student Elizabeth Johnson put together an eight-plus minute video documentary for her senior capstone project about the efforts to preserve and protect the Leake site in Cartersville, Georgia. Go to the full story to read more about the preservation efforts at the Leake site (you can help, too!), and for a link to the video.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/07/video-highlights-efforts-to-preserve-leake-site/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/2010/02/travel-on-the-web-visit-bartowdig-com/ http://thesga.org/2010/02/travel-on-the-web-visit-bartowdig-com/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:10:34 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=5042 If you haven't visited bartowdig.com recently (or ever!), now's the time to do so! Read about the Leake Site, which is downstream of the Etowah Mounds and pre-dates it, and is on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's 2010 list of Places in Peril.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/02/travel-on-the-web-visit-bartowdig-com/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/02/aas-february-meeting-speaker-scot-keith/ http://thesga.org/2010/02/aas-february-meeting-speaker-scot-keith/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:05:37 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4850 At their February meeting, Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society members will hear a presentation by Scot Keith about the Leake Site, a primarily Middle Woodland mound and village site, which is near Cartersville and the Etowah Mounds. The meeting is Tuesday, February 9th. The presentation begins at 7:30, and Scot will have some artifacts you can look at if you arrive early!]]> http://thesga.org/2010/02/aas-february-meeting-speaker-scot-keith/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/12/leake-site-update-2009/ http://thesga.org/2009/12/leake-site-update-2009/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:28:14 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4564 Archaeologist Scot Keith reports on the Leake site, which is west of Cartersville in Bartow County not far from the Etowah Mounds site, and partly within the right-of-way of Highways 61/113. The site has been named to the 2010 Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Places in Peril listing, which will aid Keith and others to raise money to protect the remaining portions of this important Woodland and Mississippian site. The full story includes excellent aerial photographs.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/12/leake-site-update-2009/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/11/leake-site-on-georgia-trusts-2010-places-in-peril-list/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/leake-site-on-georgia-trusts-2010-places-in-peril-list/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:38 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4097 On November 4th 2009, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of Georgia's top ten Places in Peril, which includes the Leake Archaeological Site, a rich Middle Woodland and Late Mississippian-period prehistoric settlement on the outskirts of Cartersville. Scot Keith, an archaeologist who lead recent excavations at the Leake Site, notes, "with help from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and numerous volunteers, we will be conducting many activities in the next year (and beyond) to foster public awareness of the site and its important place in history. This will include public education days at the site, community meetings, interviews, articles, partnerships and grants, research and fieldwork, and regular website updates."]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/leake-site-on-georgia-trusts-2010-places-in-peril-list/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/04/links-to-info-about-archaeological-studies-in-georgia/ http://thesga.org/2009/04/links-to-info-about-archaeological-studies-in-georgia/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:30:57 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=2913 http://thesga.org/2009/04/links-to-info-about-archaeological-studies-in-georgia/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2007/06/a-swift-creek-site-in-southern-indiana/ http://thesga.org/2007/06/a-swift-creek-site-in-southern-indiana/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:22:56 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1898 http://thesga.org/2007/06/a-swift-creek-site-in-southern-indiana/feed/ 0