Study Georgia's natural environment using 1978 volume
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Before the internet and the myriad of information it offers, archaeologists frequently referred to Charles H. Wharton’s The Natural Environments of Georgia, originally published in 1978.
Read MoreSubmission Guidelines for Early Georgia
ARTICLES are usually longer than REPORTS and address topics of major importance in a way that reaches out to a broad audience of professional archaeologists and the informed public. REPORTS, on the other hand, may be more technical, address a specific topic, and be of primary interest to relatively fewer readers.
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the means through which humans make a daily living, usually referring to how they procure food, e.g., through gathering-and-hunting, or through agriculture Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreSummer 2008 activities, fall plans
Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society’s activities this summer were very low key, compared to 2007 when we worked on the Groves Creek site on Skidaway Island. We spent the summer of 2008 in air conditioned comfort at the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum washing, sorting and cataloguing artifacts from excavations, lead by Mark Newell, made along the Canal from 2006-2008.
Read MoreSummer 2012 issue of The Profile now available
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) You now can download or read issue number 153 of the SGA’s quarterly newsletter, The Profile. The stories in the issue are compiled from articles first presented on this website in April, May, or June 2012.
Read MoreSummer 2013 issue of The Profile now available
You now can download or read issue number 157 of the SGA’s quarterly newsletter, The Profile. The stories in the issue are compiled from articles first presented on this website in April, May, or June of 2013.
Read MoreSummer 2014 issue of The Profile now available
You now can download or read issue number 160 of the SGA’s quarterly newsletter, The Profile. The stories in the issue are compiled from articles first presented on this website in April, May, or June of 2014.
Read MoreSummer 2014 President's Message
Submitted by Tammy Herron It is hard to believe that another Georgia Archaeology Awareness promotion has come and gone! Hopefully though, the Spring 2014 Meeting will linger through the memories that were made—whether through seeing old friends, making new friends, or learning new information about Georgia’s past.
Read MoreSummer fieldwork at Poverty Point dates enigmatic buried features
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Satellite view of the Poverty Point site, from Google Earth. North is to the right in this screen grab. Poverty Point is a famous prehistoric mound and village site in far northeast Louisiana, along a terrace adjacent to a tributary of the Mississippi River now called Bayou Marçon.
Read MoreSunday tour after Spring Meeting
Submitted by Tammy F. Herron ([email protected]) Albany Convention and Visitors Bureau from street view at Google Maps. Georgia Archaeology Month 2010 Chairman Tammy F. Herron announces: For those attending the Spring Meeting in Albany on Saturday, May 15th, there is an optional tour scheduled for Sunday, May 16th, from 9:30 a.
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