BRAG members assist with field surveys
Submitted by Tony Shore (President-Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild) On October 6, 8, and 13 of 2010, Blue Ridge Archaeological Guild members assisted Becky Bruce-Vaughters (US Forest Service archaeologist) and Dr. Jack Wynn (US Forest Service archaeologist, retired) in conducting shovel tests, metal detection, and artifact collections at two historical sites near the shoreline of beautiful Nottley Lake in Blairsville, Georgia.
Read MoreBRAG members to discuss work at the Topper Site
The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild (BRAG) will meet Thursday, August 22, at 7:00 pm in the Community Room at United Community Bank, on Morrison Moore Parkway in Dahlonega. Club President Tony Shore and Susanne Shore will talk about their experiences in 2010 and 2011 at the Topper Site, a pre-Clovis excavation along the upper Savannah River in South Carolina.
Read MoreBrowse rare maps online at UGA's Hargrett Library
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) The University of Georgia Libraries have a special section called the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Among the materials available there is a rare map collection.
Read MoreBroxton Rocks wetlands mitigation tract testing
Submitted by SEARCH (352-333-0049) Southeastern Archaeological Research, Inc. (SEARCH) of Jonesville, Florida conducted limited Phase II test excavations at two archaeological sites (9CF17 and 9CF71) located within the proposed Broxton Rocks wetlands mitigation bank near the Ocmulgee River in Coffee County, Georgia, in September of 2005.
Read MoreBuilding better climate change models
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Fact: Georgia has many archaeological sites along the coast at sea level or only a few feet above sea level. Fact: Scientists have measured a global rise in sea level over the last few years.
Read Morebuilt environment
human-made constructions that, at least loosely, may be called buildings, plus all sorts of architecture and engineered structures Posted online on Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Read MoreBuried chemical clues to our human past
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Scientists studying ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland conclude that the Earth’s climate changed rapidly about 14,700 years ago. They studied the oxygen isotopes in air bubbles trapped in the ice.
Read MoreBusy spring and early summer for AAS
The Augusta Archaeological Society (AAS) has recently gained a few members—YEAH!!! We continue to meet every other month at Famous Dave’s, a barbeque restaurant located at 2821 Washington Road in Augusta, Georgia.
Read MoreBy the numbers: SGA and the Georgia National Fair 2010
Submitted by Rita Elliott, ArchaeoBus Chair (ritafelliott@gmail.com) 0…days with rain 11…days of the Fair 15…hours per “Fair Day” 26…volunteers working the SGA ArchaeoBus 685…ArchaeoBus volunteer hours worked at the Fair
Read MoreCa. 1800 Georgia illuminated in Creek ethnohistory
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Ethnohistorian Robbie Ethridge set herself with high goals when she wrote Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (2003: University of North Carolina Press). As she notes in the introduction (page 1):
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