CGAS holds Spring Fling, attends ArchaeoFest
Spring ended with a flurry of activity for the Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society, with ArchaeoFest on May 31 and CGAS’ Spring Fling on June 7. With temperatures that did not evoke spring—a heat advisory was in effect—a small but hardy group braved the heat for a wonderful program, “Revolutionary War Savannah: Beyond Spring Hill” by Rita Elliott of the Coastal Heritage Society.
Read MoreCGAS sponsors talk in February
Chica Arndt of the Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society writes: Just a note to let you know that the Coastal Georgia Archaeological Society is sponsoring a speaker on Super Museum Sunday, February 6, 2011, at 2:00 pm at the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Museum, 681 Fort Argyle Road (Route 204), Savannah.
Read MoreChanges over time across the landscape
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Augustus Hurt Plantation marker, erected by the Georgia Historical Commission in 1956, discusses events that occurred here in July 1864. Human-inhabited landscapes usually are continuously changed.
Read MoreChanges underway for the SGA
Submitted by Dennis Blanton Good things are happening this spring in the Society for Georgia Archaeology—I hope that you can be a part of them all. Annual Spring Meeting. You won’t want to miss our annual spring meeting featuring the Archaeology Month theme, Mounds in Our Midst.
Read MoreChanging tack: Restructuring at HPD
Submitted by Dr. David Crass, State Archaeologist ([email protected]) This article was first published in HPD’s Preservation Posts, Issue 9, February 2010. Click here to see the original. One of the most difficult, but most important, sailing evolutions is called “coming about.
Read MoreChattahoochee-Oconee National Forest activities
After several years in which the position was vacant, the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest filled the position of District Archaeologist on the Oconee Ranger District in Eatonton, Georgia, in April 2005. James Wettstaed took this position after working as an archaeologist with the U.
Read MoreChemical testing shows Native Americans used ritual drink for centuries
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Photograph accompanying Science Now article, “Starbucks of Ancient America?” by Elizabeth Norton. Original caption: All the buzz. Traces of black drink, a highly caffeinated drink indigenous to the southeastern United States, were found in beakers like these from Cahokia, an ancient city outside current-day St.
Read Morechiefdom
the territory and people lead by a hereditary chief; also, a common term for a form of human social organization that incorporates multiple communities into a single hierarchical social unit that has, as a basic part of its structure, institutionalized differences in social status (ranking)
Read MoreChoctaw dictionary
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) By the early 1800s, Choctaw-speakers lived across Mississippi and in what are now modern neighboring states. Choctaw is closely related to the languages that peoples living in what is now Georgia spoke at that time.
Read Morechronology
the ordered arrangement of cultures, events, or objects in time Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read More