August 5th, 2012
This was just one of several bad cracks and bullet holes in my lenses! The red outline shows just how long this one crack was. I had been driving around for years, not seeing too well at all.
Read MoreAugust 6, 2012
Welcome to Fort Daniel. While touring this spring, I added yet another fort visit to my list! This time I got to check out Fort Daniel, where the “Fort Daniel Colonial Faire” was in full swing.
Read MoreAugust 7th, 2012
Fun! Georgia has its very own monadnock, right in…appropriately enough…. Stone Mountain! (I think I see a connection!) Stone Mountain is the largest exposed granite rock in the world (but not the tallest).
Read MoreAugust Board Meeting: In detail
Submitted by Catherine Long ([email protected]) The Society for Georgia Archaeology held a Summer Board Meeting at South Georgia College, in Douglas, on Friday, August 17th. Board Members and Officers enjoyed the lovely campus of the college and are grateful to Frankie Snow, Dwight Kirkland, and Vicki Giddens in making these arrangements.
Read MoreAugust meeting of SGA leadership a success
Board Members listening to presentation by Terry Jackson about how sensitive archaeological site location information in the Georgia Archeological Site Files (Athens) could be shared with Georgia’s twelve Regional Planning Commissions to help guide development decisions without compromising the archaeological information.
Read MoreAugusta Archaeological Society Upcoming Lecture!
Augusta Archaeological Society has an exciting FREE upcoming lecture by John Ladson- “A Glimpse into Paleo Man and Mega Fauna in Florida”: The Page-Ladson Site at the Augusta Museum of History.
Read MoreAvondale Burial Place video
Submitted by J.W. Joseph ([email protected]) Image from avondaleburialplace.org’s banner. The Avondale Burial Place is an unmarked and unrecorded African American burial place in southern Bibb County that Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) encountered during the Sardis Church Road expansion project.
Read MoreB.R.A.G Meeting Announcement for April 10, 2018
Dr. David Patterson of the Biology Department at the University of North Georgia will speak to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild on Wednesday, April 11, at 6:00 pm. His topic will be “Human and animal adaptation in dynamic ecosystems: case studies from the fossil record of Africa and coastal Georgia.
Read MoreB.R.A.G Meeting Announcement for February 14, 2018
Archaeologist Steven Hammock will speak to the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (B.R.A.G.) on Wednesday, February 14 at 6:00 pm at the Dahlonega Parks and Recreation Building. His topic is “Creek Rising: Ethnogenesis in Middle Georgia’s Ocmulgee River Valley,” ethnohistory and archaeology of the Historic Creek Indians in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Read MoreB.R.A.G Meeting Announcement- May 9, 2018
Dr. Hugh B. Matternes of New South Associates in Stone Mountain will discuss his work on “Upland Box Tombs: Southern Variants on a Popular Nineteenth Century Grave Cover” for the Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild 6pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
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