Tammy Herron to speak at the February GAAS meeting
Submitted by Allen Vegostsky ([email protected]) I am very pleased to invite you to the February 14th GAAS meeting at which Tammy Herron of the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program (SRARP) will be the guest speaker.
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the study of the processes that effect organic remains in the formation of fossils; archaeologists use the term to refer to the processes that affect abandoned archaeological materials Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreTasty tidbits versus wild fruit
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) In Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture, and Story (Counterpoint, 1997), ethnobotanist and essayist Gary Paul Nabhan argues that modern peoples tend not to have opportunities for discovery in the natural world, and that this distance from our environment means we don’t grasp the complexity of the world and of ecology.
Read MoreTeaching Creek heritage in the 21st century
Submitted by Richard L. Thornton ([email protected]) Prominently displayed on the office wall of the Muskogee (Creek) Tribe’s Chief Justice, Patrick Moore, is a tattered old flag. At first glance, one might assume it was a Civil War ancestor’s regimental banner.
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a substance added to the clay when manufacturing pottery, usually to harden or strengthen the material; temper may be shell, crushed stone, crushed pottery, sand, bone, Spanish moss, or other substances
Read MoreTen essential mobile apps for the archaeologist
Submitted by Amanda L. Morrow After reading the article posted earlier this summer about the release of the Digging Savannah app for Android systems, I began compiling a list of helpful apps for those involved with archaeology and history in Georgia.
Read MoreTerminology: What do archaeologists mean by "symbol"?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Some of the best-known artifacts had immense symbolism to the peoples who made and used them. Consider the Etowah mounds, the Constitution of the United States of America, and royal crowns.
Read MoreTerracon busy near Atlanta, Gainesville, elsewhere
Submitted by Terracon Consultants (770-623-0755) Terracon archaeologists and historians continue to maintain busy field schedules across the southeast. The summer and autumn seasons have sent our staff to southwest, northern, and coastal Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, South Carolina, and the far reaches of northwest Virginia.
Read MoreTest yourself about the Columbian Exchange
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) The Earth, of course, is a sphere. This projection, by Google Maps, “flattens” the sphere, and distorts the curved shape to display it on the flat surface of your screen.
Read MoreThank you, Editor Pluckhahn
Submitted by SGA President Catherine Long ([email protected]) For the past four years Tom Pluckhahn has served the Society for Georgia Archaeology as the Editor of our journal, Early Georgia. As he is incoming Editor for Southeastern Archaeology, the journal of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, we could not pass up the opportunity to thank him for his contributions to continuing the professionalism of the journal.
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