Concern over Georgia budget has national scope
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) The SGA website’s editor has just learned that the Society for American Archaeology expressed strongly worded concerns to the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Georgia State Senate about cuts to archaeology program funding during budget negotiations in late March.
Read MoreConflict: Georgia's Expanding Boundaries
Archaeology Month events in 2007 focused on the theme “Conflict: Georgia’s Expanding Boundaries, 1733-1833.” Click here to download a copy of SGA’s 2007 poster commemorating this theme. Posted online on Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Read MoreConsequences of travel to human history
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Sunset crowds on Broadway near Times Square in New York City. People move around. Archaeology and history show this repeatedly. People don’t stay in one place.
Read MoreConservation news near and far
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Theater ruins at the ancient Greek city of Heraclea Minoa, on Sicily’s southwest coast (here on Google Maps). The Greek settlement was probably founded about 550 BC, and abandoned about five centuries later.
Read MoreConsidering household wealth: residential architecture
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) People live in houses. Clearly, that’s not true everywhere at every time. But, pre-modern peoples tended to live in structures we are comfortable calling houses. Of course, structures with multiple living units, commonly found in cities, but also in places like the Puebloan areas of the North American Southwest, began to be built long ago, too.
Read MoreConsidering taxonomies in the twenty-first century
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Deptford Cord Marked sherd photo from the University of Georgia’s website “Georgia Indian Pottery Site.” Archaeologists deal with taxonomies, and sometimes help develop them. A taxonomy is a system for classification, and in science is usually rank-based.
Read MoreConstruction crew at UGA unearths artifacts
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Photograph by David Manning, and from onlineAthens.com website. Lee Shearer’s August 18th, 2009, story published by onlineAthens.com, notes that a construction project on the University of Georgia campus in Athens has revealed archaeological artifacts.
Read MoreContents of Early Georgia now listed online
Researchers and the curious can now peruse the titles and authors of all articles published in Early Georgia since SGA began publishing the journal in 1950. A link to the order form is at the top of the page.
Read Morecontext
the location or placement of an artifact, feature, or site, including its relationship to other artifacts, features, and the surrounding environment Context includes the soil around archaeological materials. Sometimes, the context of artifacts is more informative than the artifacts!
Read Moreconvento
Spanish term for a complex of buildings, often encircled by a wall, in which Catholic friars or nuns live and do much of their work Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
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