Meeting about state budget reductions: August 11th
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Members of the SGA may be interested in attending a meeting discussing the latest budget reductions to Georgia State Historic Sites. The meeting will be on Tuesday, August 11th, at the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation offices at Rhodes Hall on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, from 10 AM to 2:30 PM.
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Submitted by Augusta Archaeological Society Dr. Al Goodyear of the University of South Carolina was the featured speaker at our October 11 meeting at Famous Dave’s Bar-B-Que on Washington Road. Dr.
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Submitted by Catherine Long (diggergirl77@gmail.com) The Georgia Trust and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Division co-sponsored the statewide preservation conference on April 19th and 20th. It was held in Roswell and featured the theme Professionalism and Practice.
Read MoreMelissa Webb of GSU enjoys interning at Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Submitted by Melissa Webb (Georgia State University Anthropology Department) Georgia State University, spring semester 2010, I interned at Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, Georgia. From the beginning, I had no clue what to expect from the experience, much less what sort of projects and duties I would work with.
Read MoreMembership in SGA---a minute with new Secretary Baughman
Submitted by Pamela Baughman, SGA Secretary (sgasecretary@thesga.org) I took over for long-serving secretary Tom Gresham in October of 2010, and I am excited to have the opportunity to continue to serve SGA, meet current members, encourage new memberships, and interact with the SGA Leadership.
Read MoreMemorial service for Gordon Midgette held on May 17th
Gordon Moody Midgette, 70, past director of the Dekalb Historical Society, leaves a lasting legacy. Archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian Gordon Moody Midgette passed away from this world at 7:11 p.m., the 29th of April 2014.
Read MoreMending ceramics
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Ooops. I accidentally broke my husband’s favorite coffee mug. Fortunately, the piece that broke off was large and I was able to save it. Using techniques I learned in the archaeological laboratory for mending broken historic and prehistoric ceramics and pottery, I glued together the coffee mug.
Read MoreMerchant trading network burials threatened
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) Quick: where in the world is the largest concentration of Bronze Age graves? Read on…. Bahrain is a large island in a shallow bay on the west side of the Persian Gulf called the Gulf of Bahrain.
Read MoreMESDA Has Georgia on its Mind With New Acquisitions
Submitted by Jeanne Sturiale (Jeanne@annesepr.com) In the past month MESDA has more than doubled the number of Georgia-made objects in its collection MESDA will debut these new acquisitions in a special exhibition opening October 1, 2009.
Read MoreMetrics on this website's "size"
Submitted by Sammy Smith (sammy@thesga.org) How “big” is this website? How has it “grown” over the last year? Since it’s digital, we could measure it in megabytes, but since its main goal is outreach and education, a simple page count makes more sense.
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