http://thesga.org SGA site, redux Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://thesga.org/2012/05/prehistoric-community-excavated-in-spalding-county/ http://thesga.org/2012/05/prehistoric-community-excavated-in-spalding-county/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 21:13:41 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=10811 Excavators working on a prehistoric settlement on the east bank of the Flint River in Spalding County have recovered materials from the Early Archaic through the Middle Woodland periods, along with posts, pits and many rock clusters. This work was performed by a crew from Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc. for the Georgia Department of Transportation. The ancient community was on the first terrace overlooking a back swamp.]]> http://thesga.org/2012/05/prehistoric-community-excavated-in-spalding-county/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2012/02/snacking-in-middle-woodland-times-plant-foods/ http://thesga.org/2012/02/snacking-in-middle-woodland-times-plant-foods/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:00:23 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=10357 Back in Middle Woodland times, there was no McDonalds, no Starbucks, and no drive-up windows. Middle Woodland times date to roughly 2000 years ago and more, so the lack of convenience food stores is not surprising. This leaves us with the question: just what did the people of Georgia eat back then? In a recent Early Georgia article "Middle Woodland Gardening in the Etowah River Valley, Northwest Georgia" (2011, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 119–136), Leslie E. Branch-Raymer and Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund discuss plant foods people ate back in those times. Follow the link to learn more….]]> http://thesga.org/2012/02/snacking-in-middle-woodland-times-plant-foods/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2012/02/long-distance-travel-the-leake-site-example/ http://thesga.org/2012/02/long-distance-travel-the-leake-site-example/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:25 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=10329 In an article in the Fall 2011 issue of Early Georgia (vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 173–200), Scot Keith discusses evidence for long-distance trade and exchange in Middle Woodland times (from about 350 BC to AD 650), using data from the Leake Site, near Cartersville. Members of the SGA in 2011 received that issue of Early Georgia as a benefit of membership. Join the SGA, and you will receive the current volume of Early Georgia!]]> http://thesga.org/2012/02/long-distance-travel-the-leake-site-example/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/07/learning-from-the-past-where-people-lived-changed-over-time/ http://thesga.org/2011/07/learning-from-the-past-where-people-lived-changed-over-time/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:00:05 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9156 Read "Examining Variation in the Human Settlement of Prehistoric Georgia," by John A. Turck, Mark Williams, and John F. Chamblee in the Spring 2011 issue of Early Georgia (included in membership in the SGA) and you will better understand changes and continuities in the prehistoric occupation across the landscape of the area we now call Georgia. The trio apply statistical methods to the treasure trove of data stored at the Georgia Archaeological Site File in Athens to fine-tune our understanding of where people lived when in the past, and of how those patterns changed over time.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/07/learning-from-the-past-where-people-lived-changed-over-time/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2011/06/food-storage-is-linked-to-horticulture/ http://thesga.org/2011/06/food-storage-is-linked-to-horticulture/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:00:18 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=9029 When people began to save food for longer than several days, they had to develop ways of storing it that would be safe from predators ranging from other humans to bacteria. Look around a typical Georgia kitchen today, and you probably will see a refrigerator and freezer, cupboards, perhaps a pantry, breadbox, and cookie jar—all for storing food. What strategies did ancient peoples use to store their food? This article uses an example from the Neolithic period in what is now Jordan to investigate how ancient peoples solved the problem of food storage.]]> http://thesga.org/2011/06/food-storage-is-linked-to-horticulture/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2010/10/fall-2010-meeting-agenda-details/ http://thesga.org/2010/10/fall-2010-meeting-agenda-details/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 21:40:40 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=6480 The 2010 Fall Meeting is a tour of prehistoric and historic archaeological and historical sites in the St. Simons Island area from Friday-Sunday, 15-17 October. The meeting formally begins in the Frederica Room at Sea Palms on Saturday morning. Registration 8-9 am; short orientation talks start at 9 am, before heading out on the tours. Pick up a printout of the agenda, with maps, at the 9 am orientation. Article includes suggestions for activities if you arrive early enough on Friday the 15th.]]> http://thesga.org/2010/10/fall-2010-meeting-agenda-details/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/2009/11/gars-will-meet-on-november-17th/ http://thesga.org/2009/11/gars-will-meet-on-november-17th/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:49:33 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=4059 The Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society will have its regular meeting for November 2009 on the 17th, beginning at 7 pm. The speaker will be Scot Keith, lead archaeologist for recent excavations at the Late Woodland Leake Site. The site has been listed by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation as a 2010 Place in Peril. (See a story on this website about this here.)]]> http://thesga.org/2009/11/gars-will-meet-on-november-17th/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/06/2009-poster-mounds-in-our-midst/ http://thesga.org/2009/06/2009-poster-mounds-in-our-midst/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:31:31 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=3149 The SGA is proud to make a digital version of our 2009 poster celebrating the Society's theme of this year's Archaeology Month, Mounds in Our Midst. Mounds are easy-to-see remnants of Georgia's prehistoric past, mainly built between 500 BC and AD 1550. Research over the last century and more indicates that these artificial, human-constructed features of Georgia's landscape varied in their design and purpose.]]> http://thesga.org/2009/06/2009-poster-mounds-in-our-midst/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/ http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:00:26 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=100 Peoples with material culture common across the North American Southeast lived even farther north than the area around Criel Mound, in western West Virginia. Even if you're most interested in Georgia's archaeological past, you can best understand it in a regional context….]]> http://thesga.org/2009/06/criel_mound/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/2007/06/notes-from-the-hardin-bridge-site/ http://thesga.org/2007/06/notes-from-the-hardin-bridge-site/#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:22:50 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1884 http://thesga.org/2007/06/notes-from-the-hardin-bridge-site/feed/ 0 http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/ http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2002 03:22:03 +0000 sammy http://thesga.org/?p=1663 http://thesga.org/2002/04/learning-through-archaeology-kolomoki/feed/ 0