bc
like BC, meaning before Christ, but for uncorrected radiocarbon dates Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreBeautiful ceramic pieces: Audacious Archaeology Auction items (\#2)
During the day on Saturday, meet with SGA members at the semi-annual meeting, at the Zell B. Miller Learning Center (48 Baxter Street at S. Lumpkin Street, Athens, 30605) on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens.
Read MoreBest Buy gives \$4,000 grant for ArchaeoBus
Submitted by Rita Elliott (ritafelliott@windstream.net) ArchaeoBus is quickly becoming more than just a pretty face! The last Profile article described the colorful “wrap” that will embellish the exterior of the vehicle and create an exciting traveling billboard for public archaeology outreach.
Read MoreBeveled points and Edgefield scrapers
Submitted by Scott Jones (info@mediaprehistoria.com) The Edgefield scraper is a diagnostic tool of the Early Archaic period that is geographically distributed throughout much of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida. It is essentially a unifacial hafted tool with a bifacially worked side-notched base that typically co-occurs with side-notched points of the Big Sandy/Bolen/Taylor group (Goodyear et al.
Read MoreBeware of ticks!
Submitted by Pamela Johnson Baughman (pajgriffin@comcast.net) May is Archaeology Month in the state of Georgia, and also Historic Preservation Month, but did you also know that May is Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Awareness Month?
Read MoreBHAS conducts diverse activities
In December we held our meeting with festive flare by combining two events. Members provided a pot luck dinner, with a cool presentation by Jack Wynn on the “Archaeology of Upland Peru.
Read MoreBHAS members active
The Bulloch Hall Archaeological Society (BHAS) chapter was invited by the Roswell Historical Society (RHS) to share archaeology with the people of Roswell. On March 15 and 16, a table was provided in the Showcase of Homes.
Read Morebiface
a stone tool, such as a projectile point, that has been modified on both sides (faces) Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreBig buildings: Monumental and civic-ceremonial architecture
Archaeologists have a term for outsized buildings and other structures—monumental architecture. This just simply means that they are big. Often large buildings are part of complexes, or groups of buildings, walls, and paths or roadways, on specially modified locations (large, artificially flattened or raised areas; as part of open areas like parks or plazas).
Read Morebiotic
of or relating to or resulting from living beings; opposite of abiotic Posted online on Thursday, April 16th, 2009
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