HPD needs your input
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) From the cover of HPD’s current Preservation Plan. Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division has composed a survey to solicit your input about the goals of their program.
Read MoreHPD offices moving; new address after November 1st
The Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Natural Resources is moving back into state offices at the end of this month. As a result, the office will have limited service on October 26-27, will be closed October 28 through November 3rd, and will have limited service November 4-6.
Read MoreHPD uses online survey and public discussions to frame 5-year plan
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) From the cover of HPD’s current Preservation Plan. Beginning in July 2010, and again in February 2011, the SGA urged you to complete an online survey posted by Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division (HPD), which solicited public input in framing their next five-year historic preservation plan.
Read MoreHPD's Preservation Georgia now online-only
Georgia’s Historic Preservation Division circulated its first online edition of Preservation Georgia Online (formerly Preservation Georgia), a weekly newsletter. The newsletter includes stories and a detailed calendar of events relevant to historic preservation in Georgia, including some archaeology events.
Read Morehunter-gatherers
Sometimes instead written gatherer-hunters, to emphasize that gathering usually provides a most of the calories, hunter-gathers are peoples who subsist on foods obtained from the wilds, from foraging and hunting species that are not domesticated; hunting-and-gathering peoples tend to live in social groups that are relatively non-hierarchical and politically egalitarian.
Read MoreHynes "runs" research project in Egypt
Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society and SGA member Terry Hynes recently “directed” a small project in the famous Valley of the Kings in the Theban Hills in Egypt’s Nile Valley. Terry also toured Luxor and boated on the Nile during her trip-of-a-lifetime in early January.
Read Moreice age
any of a series of climatically cold periods marked by alternating periods of glaciation and warming Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MoreIdentification Day and more...
As usual, the Augusta Archaeological Society members have been involved in a number of activities related to archaeology and history. John Arena and John Whatley worked with the Ocmulgee Archaeological Society on an artifact identification day at the Old Capitol Museum in Milledgeville July 12.
Read MoreIdentifying and dating glass bottles
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Bottle photograph from Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website. If you’re interested in historic bottles, you may enjoy browsing the Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information Website.
Read Moreimpact
any effect on the archaeological record; in most cases, this term is used to describe the damage construction and other development projects do to archaeological resources Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
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