GAAS schedules lecture on Maya archaeology
Submitted by Allen Vegotsky (vegotsky@earthlink.net) The October meeting of GAAS—the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society, a chapter of the SGA—looks compelling especially for those of you who share my fascination with Mesoamerican archaeology and culture.
Read MoreGAAS schedules March meeting
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) The next meeting of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society, a chapter of the SGA, will be March 9th, 2010, at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Clifton Road, just north of Ponce de Leon), at 7:30 PM.
Read MoreGAAS September meeting featuring Archaeologist Dr. Glover discussing The Maritime Maya
Submitted by Allen Vegotsky (Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society) Welcome back to a new year of exciting archaeological talks beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 13th, with Dr. Jeffrey Glover of Georgia State University’s Department of Anthropology as our initial speaker.
Read MoreGAAS talks trash at February meeting
Submitted by Lyn Kirkland, GAAS member and SGA Board Member Ever wonder what Atlantans threw away 100 years ago? Well, soon we will know as a result of The Phoenix Project overseen by Georgia State University (GSU).
Read MoreGAAS teams with the Flat Rock Archive
Beginning in May 2008, members of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society have participated in a project complete with a sense of historic preservation and civic responsibility. Dedicating time and tools, members of GAAS have teamed up with the Flat Rock Archive in Lithonia, Georgia, to help in the restoration and documentation of the historic Flat Rock cemetery.
Read MoreGAAS to learn about Singer-Moye in March
The Greater Atlanta Chapter (GAAS) of the SGA will meet next on March 12th, 2013. The program will begin at 6:30 PM at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Our speaker will be Stefan Brannan of the University of Georgia.
Read MoreGAAS to meet November 13th
It is a pleasure to announce that the GAAS speaker at our next meeting (Tuesday, November 13th, 6:30PM) will be Tommy Hudson. Mr. Hudson has been a member of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society, a Chapter of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, in past years and has made important contributions to Georgia archaeology.
Read MoreGAAS Update: Summer 2011
Submitted by David Kasriel & Allen Vegotsky (Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society) ABOVE: Doug Sain (left), Pleistocene terrace supervisor, assisting in extraction of OSL sample at Topper. BELOW RIGHT: Carol Reed and large core in the preClovis Pleistocene terrace; excavation of the artifact will have to be completed in the 2012 season.
Read MoreGAAS visits Stewart County
Submitted by Lyn B. Kirkland and Elizabeth Allan (lkirkla@aol.com) On Friday, June 29, 2012, twenty-plus members of the GAAS (the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society, a Chapter of the SGA)—professional and avocational archaeologists—and their guests visited several notable locations in Lumpkin, Stewart County, in Southwest Georgia: the Bedingfield Inn, the Hatchett Drug Store Museum, and the Singer/Moye archaeological site, a complex of nine Mississippian mounds, which now belongs to the University of Georgia.
Read MoreGARS and FDF hold Frontier Faire
Skip Hopkins at the Helm of the FDF Catherine Long trains young archaeologists Jim D'Angelo Pitches Ft. Daniel Park Master Plan Members of the Keith Family Tour Ft. Daniel The Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society (GARS) and the Friends of Fort Daniel (FFD), recently announced that FFD has reorganized as The Fort Daniel Foundation (FDF).
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