May 22, 2010
I hope I didn’t take away everyone’s attention from all the other interesting stations they had set up under tents.) Kids and families and adults at the festival learned about all the different parts of archaeology and got to try their hands at different activities under the tents.
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\ As we were rolling through this beautiful historic town, my New South crew and I were noticing that a lot of the town looked fairly familiar…. That was when we found out that Senoia was actually Woodbury in the hit AMC show The Walking Dead!
Read MoreMay 29, 2010
\ I thought I was gonna lose a tire! I’ve never had a backfire from my muffler that loud! Turns out they were shooting rounds of muskets and then topping it off by firing a big cannon!
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\ The AASU Anthropology Club and instructors (Barbara Bruno and Laura Seifert) asked for a command performance by yours truly. (I hear they are considering me for an honorary degree!) They gave me my old place back, right in the heart of the campus.
Read MoreMay is Archaeology Month in Georgia!
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has proclaimed that May is Archaeology Month in Georgia. (Read about the proclamation signing here.) Celebratory and educational activities celebrating Archaeology Month are planned around the state.
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Submitted by Tammy Herron (tfherron@gmail.com) Pictured with the Governor left to right: Dylan Woodliff representing Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc.; Leslie Perry – SGA Board Member; Deputy DNR Commissioner Homer Bryson; Elizabeth Shirk of the DNR – Historic Preservation Division and Past President of the SGA; Joe Joseph representing New South Associates; Catherine Long – President of the SGA and representing the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center; Tammy Herron – Vice President of the SGA and representing the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program; Pamela Baughman – Secretary of the SGA, President of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists, and representing the Georgia Department of Transportation; State Archaeologist Bryan Tucker of the DNR – Historic Preservation Division; DNR Commissioner Mark Williams; and Alana Hise representing Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc.
Read MoreMay is Historic Preservation Month in Georgia
You know that May is Archaeology Month in Georgia, by proclamation of the Governor. Did you know that May is also Historic Preservation Month, also by the Governor’s proclamation? The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and local preservation and neighborhood organizations sponsor Historic Preservation Month.
Read MoreMeasurements and projectile points
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Table 2 from Buchanan et al. article, An Assessment of the Impact of Hafting on Paleoindian Point Variability. Original table title: “Characters used in the study” (doi:10.
Read MoreMeet and Greet for the Veterans Curation Project
New South Associates, Inc invites you to attend a meet and greet for the Veterans Curation Program At the Augusta Laboratory on Thursday, July 19th between 10:00am and 2:00pm. The Augusta Veterans Curation Program currently provides vocational rehabilitation and innovative training to ten recently-separated veterans using archaeological collections administered by the U.
Read MoreMeet March 12th to help save log home
You can help save an historic log home in Gordon County that is on the National Register…. The next meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will be held at Rockdale Plantation in Gordon County, GA on Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 10:30 AM.
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