Archaeology's greatest challenge in the media
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Promotional image from the official Indiana Jones website. Archaeologists are interesting and have mystique. The challenge of the next decade, and beyond, is to harness glamour.
Read MoreArchaeology: Real world to hypotheses, theories
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Elsewhere on this website, archaeology is defined as: the study of past human culture by analyzing the material remains (sites and artifacts) people left behind; the science of archaeology involves recording, interpreting, and recreating past human life
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a New World cultural period, about 10,000-3000 BP, marked by mobile gathering-and-hunting life and a mostly egalitarian social organization Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreArchived records of lands taken through eminent domain
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) The Southeast Region Archives, supported by your tax dollars, house diverse historical records collected by the government. They note on their website: Records in the National Archives tell the story of southern families and communities, technological advances that changed lives, and social and economic forces that shaped the makeup of our society.
Read MoreArchives to remain open
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) The Georgia State Archives are to remain open. In late September 2012, as we noted on this website, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced that the Archives would close to the public on November 1st.
Read MoreArchives update: Call NOW
Dial NOW. TODAY. The SGA is a member of the Coalition to Preserve the Georgia Archives. Please read the following and dial your Representative NOW! The Rules Committee in the Georgia House of Representatives has placed HB 287 on the schedule to be voted on tomorrow, Tuesday, February 26th.
Read MoreAre archaeology and civic engagement interlinked?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Archeology has a unique role to play in Civic Engagement because fundamentally it is in the business of creating knowledge from a resource often held in the public trust: the archeological record.
Read MoreAre Georgia parks underfunded in NPS budget?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) The National Park Service has announced that almost $2.5 million of its American Recovery and Reinvestment Act monies will be spent on parks in Georgia. That’s about 1/3 of a percent—that is, 0.
Read MoreAre historical records true?
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Picture from Frontispiece of Riparian Lands of the Mississippi River: Past—Present—Prospective, by Frank H. Thompkins (1901, published in New Orleans, available as a free download from Google Books).
Read Morearrowheads
stone points that were small and light enough to have been attached to an arrow shaft and shot from a bow; the term PPK is a more general term. Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
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