Touring a ziggurat almost a century ago
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Visit the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, and contemplate the ruins of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, including its temple or ziggurat.
Read MoreTouring the coast: Tybee Island Lighthouse
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) National Geographic Traveler has highlighted fifty “Drives of a Lifetime.” A route along the Georgia and South Carolina coasts is one of the trips discussed. Several small detours would take you to historic places like the Tybee Island lighthouse.
Read MoreTrack Rock Gap and the Forest Service
Submitted by James R. Wettstaed, Heritage Program Manager/Forest Archaeologist Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests ([email protected]) Current protection of the rock art. Over the last year a great number of claims have been made about Mayans and Georgia Archaeology.
Read MoreTrack Rock Gap site: a new vision of petroglyphs
Submitted by James Wettstaed (Heritage Program Manager/Forest Archaeologist Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests) Track Rock Gap (9UN3) is the location of a series of rock carvings, or petroglyphs, made by Native Americans in Union County, Georgia on soapstone boulders.
Read Moretrade goods
items that were traded over sometimes very long distances in history or prehistory; they tell us about interactions and relationships between cultures or peoples. Some traded goods were quite special and ownership of the items carried considerable prestige.
Read MoreTravel on the web: Visit bartowdig.com
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) 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.
Read MoreTRC excavations in northern Alabama
Submitted by TRC (770-270-1192) In October 2007, TRC began data recovery excavations at The Spirit Hill Site, 1JA642, a multi-component prehistoric site on the Tennessee River in northeastern Alabama. We completed the fieldwork in May 2008, and are currently involved in the analysis and reporting.
Read Moretree-ring dates
also called dendrochronology, this is a dating technique based on the number and variation in tree rings. Usually, there is one ring for each year of growth and specific climatic changes are evident in thickness of ring.
Read Moretribe
a generally egalitarian form of social organization, with a more complex kinship system than a band, and having some temporary leadership roles Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreTwo days at the Georgia National Fair with the ArchaeoBus
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Volunteer Tom Gresham (left) trains newly arrived volunteer Allen Vegotsky, while volunteer JC Burns (right) looks on. Allen’s holding some Play-Doh we provided for kids (of all ages) to experiment with paddles and reeds to decorate in imitation of ancient pottery surface treatments.
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