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from the Latin anno domini, designates the period after year 1 in the Christian or Gregorian calendar Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreAdam King to present on summer testing at Etowah
Dr. King last spoke to GAAS members in March 2012 on the meaning of Mississippian imagery found at Etowah. We look forward to hearing about remote sensing and the findings from this summer’s dig at the same site.
Read MoreAdvanced metal detecting class offered
Building on the success of their first course offering in Charleston, SC in August 2012, Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA) and the continuing professional education program of the Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) are proud to announce that the second AMDA course offering will be April, 19–21, 2013, in Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Read Moreagriculture
the intensive cultivation of soil and production of crops; farming Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreAn American archaeologist in England: Perceptions of the past
Submitted by Mike Johnson ([email protected]) Around this time last year, as I prepared to board a plane and begin my MA program in the United Kingdom, I began to ask myself if the complication and expense of continuing my education in the UK was really worth it.
Read MoreAn ethnohistorian's insights into untangling the past
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Many of us wonder what it might have been like to wander the New World with an early European adventurer. In 1984, Dr. Charles Hudson, an ethnohistorian at the University of Georgia, and his wife, Joyce Rockwood Hudson, did just that.
Read MoreAn update on the Archaic period across North America
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) You may not know that PDFs of back issues of the Society for American Archaeology’s magazine The SAA Archaeological Record are available for free, except for the latest issue.
Read MoreAnnouncing a summer 2009 field project blog
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) SGA President Dennis Blanton wears a day-job hat, as Curator of Native American Archaeology at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, in Atlanta. This summer he’s working on a field project excavating at an early Spanish site in Telfair County.
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2013 Waring Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology at the University of West Georgia
The Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia is pleased to announce the 2013 Waring Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology: Ice Age Peopling of the Americas: Do Stones, Bones, and Genes Tell the Same Story?
Read MoreAnnouncing the fifth annual Ft. Daniel Frontier Faire
The Gwinnett chapter of the SGA (GARS), along with the Ft. Daniel Foundation, is sponsoring the fifth annual Ft. Daniel Frontier Faire on Saturday, October 19, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.
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