Website usage based on pageviews
How much attention does our website get? The Society for Georgia Archaeology has established and maintains this website partly to keep our members informed about the business of the Society and partly as an outreach and educational information source for the interested public.
Read MoreWebsite usage update: September, October "bump"
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Good news! The SGA website’s numbers are up! We are adding new stories at a good clip—we added twenty in October! That is approximately one per business day!
Read MoreWeeds can be helpful: indirect evidence and archaeological analysis
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Archaeologists often use indirect data to infer past cultural practices. This is because only certain data are preserved in archaeological contexts. Yet, we have questions that extend beyond that preserved data.
Read MoreWeekend Schedule Details!
Welcome to the 2016 Society for Georgia Archaeology Spring Events! We hope you have an enjoyable, educational, and delightful weekend. To ensure admittance, please wear your name tag to all events!
Read MoreWeekly Ponder: One year and counting
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) The Weekly Ponder begins its second year of publication this week! The very first Weekly Ponder was posted on 26 January 2009. We initiated the Weekly Ponder to guarantee a frequent posting of new material on the Society for Georgia Archaeology’s website.
Read MoreWGUAS is online as SEADive
Online, the West Georgia Underwater Archaeological Society is switching from its original website at WGUAS.org to its new domain at SEADive.org. The new name stands for SouthEast Archaeological Divers, and recognizes that the Chapter’s members come from across the Southeast.
Read MoreWhat attending SEAC meant to me
Submitted by James "Wes" Patterson, Fernbank Museum Natural History It was a dark and rainy day when we left Atlanta headed for Lexington, Kentucky—the location of the 2010 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC).
Read MoreWhat do those little dots mean?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Careful excavation and detailed note-taking are hallmarks of well-managed archaeological projects. This is because archaeology is a destructive science—any square centimeter of an archaelogical deposit can only be excavated once.
Read MoreWhat is "Old Europe"?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Detail from map by Jonathan Corum, published in the New York Times here. The phrase “Old Europe” refers to Neolithic Europe, or the portions of the European continent inhabited by people who made pottery and lived in small villages, ate domesticated and wild plant foods, between about 7000 BC and around 1500 BC (when the Bronze Age began in parts of Europe).
Read MoreWhat is NAGPRA?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) NAGPRA stands for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. This is a federal law, originally passed in 1990 (with only minor amendments since), which:
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