What is this?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammysmith@thesga.org) What is this? Have you ever seen one in real life? What does the triangle indicate? Where did the photographer find it? Why was it put there?
Read MoreWhat to curate?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Curate is a fancy word that refers to selecting, organizing, and properly storing items, for example in a museum collection, or for an exhibition. We can’t curate everything.
Read MoreWhat was the New World like in 1491?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Journalist Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2005) is both an in-depth and an entertaining review of what the New World was like prior to the arrival of Columbus and his three ships in 1492.
Read MoreWhat's in a name?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Humans habitually categorize things they think about. This includes objects (consider: animal, vegetable, mineral) and concepts (consider: real versus abstract). Categorization involves priorizing certain characteristics that may be either similar or different.
Read MoreWhat's new? thesga.org RSS feed!
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) What’s the best way to find out what’s new at websites you visit regularly? Many savvy users employ a web technology called RSS that allows them to subscribe to a feed—a listing of the stories that have been added to a website, often in excerpt form.
Read MoreWhat's up with...2012?
Listening to the hype over the movie “2012,” some people are wondering if the Maya have predicted the end of the world in that year. If you believe archaeologists, no. As the New York Times reports:
Read MoreWhat's your perspective?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) All images in this story are screen grabs from Google Earth, a free program that displays satellite data. Perspective matters. This is easy to recognize with visual images, but it’s also true with research questions.
Read MoreWhere in the World is Abby?
Submitted by Rita Elliott (ritafelliott@windstream.net) Abby, the ArchaeoBus, has had a busy summer and fall. Summer found Abby enjoying the Athens library scene, where she shared more than archaeology books with library patrons.
Read MoreWho made the "LACLEDE KING" brick: The answer
Submitted by Dick Brunelle (rfbdick@yahoo.com) Editor’s Note Back in late March 2009, GAAS and SGA member Dick Brunelle issued a challenge to thesga.org readers. He had read a January Weekly Ponder on a Copeland-Inglis brick
Read MoreWho made this brick?
Submitted by Dick Brunelle (rfbdick@yahoo.com) Ponder, for a moment, this brick. When I saw it in the garden walk at Hills and Dales, the Callaway family home that was built on an old plantation property in LaGrange.
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