HoverCrafts might be of help
Submitted by Bill Frazier ([email protected]) We all know that there are some riverine areas that are nearly impossible to reach, but may hold information about the past, especially if you are interested in resources such as fishtraps.
Read MoreHow can understanding the past help us with...global food production?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Early European settlers were impressed by the productivity and sustainability of Native American agriculture in the Northeast. Today, as farmers begin to come to grips with the consequences of modern, mechanized agriculture, i.
Read MoreHow did climate change affect Pleistocene megafauna?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Illustration by Barry Roal Carlsen, provided by University of Wisconsin—Madison. Did people kill off Pleistocene megafauna in North America, or were those species done in by climate shifts?
Read MoreHow do we decode the past?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Bonus question: this photograph was taken on Tybee Island. Is it sunrise or sunset? Take a look at the Smithsonian Institution’s online lesson plan about archaeology.
Read MoreHow do you describe a color?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Scientists have to figure out how to solve all kinds of problems that seem like they shouldn’t be problems until you think about them. So, how do you describe a color so I know the exact shade you’re talking about?
Read MoreHow important is dating?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) This is the website of the Society for Georgia Archaeology, so the dating we’re talking about is “how old…” not a kind of courtship behavior.
Read MoreHow important was cooking in human evolution?
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Published in spring 2009, Richard Wrangham’s book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Basic Books) argues that the ability to use fire for cooking foodstuffs allowed the changes that have made humans a distinct species.
Read MoreHow to disperse a mob and other endowment lessons
Submitted by Rita Elliott ([email protected]) Police Commissioner: “If you were ordered to disperse a mob, what would you do?” Applicant: Pass around the hat, sir." Police Commissioner: “That’ll do; you’re hired.
Read MoreHPD co-sponsors hands-on cemetery workshops
Practical training in action, courtesy of Jonathan Appell. Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division, in partnership with the Decatur Preservation Alliance/Friends of Decatur Cemetery and the Georgia Municipal Cemetery Association, sponsored four hands-on cemetery conservation workshops in October and early November 2008.
Read MoreHPD initiates monthly e-journal
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) The Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources has begun a monthly e-journal, called Preservation Posts, with longer, in-depth articles compared to their weekly newsletter, Preservation Georgia Online.
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