OAS busy educating the public, doing research
The OAS continues its mission of educating the public about the archaeology of Middle Georgia, and has had several excellent speakers this winter. In January Sam Lawson, recently returned to our area from south Georgia, gave a talk on the locations of the Creek towns that were along the Upper Ocmulgee from 1686 to 1716.
Read MoreOAS chapter meeting speakers announced for May and June
Submitted by Stephen A. Hammack ([email protected]) Our chapter meetings are the first Monday of each month at 6:30 pm at Mercer University in Macon. We meet in the Science and Engineering building there.
Read MoreOAS looking for new meeting location
The Ocmulgee Archaeological Society (OAS) is working to finalize a meeting place for next year since we have to move from Ocmulgee National Monument (ONM), where we have been meeting since our re-establishment in 2003.
Read MoreOAS members busy attending, sponsoring events
The OAS continues has continued its work throughout Middle Georgia this fall, and has quite a few interesting activities to report. Mark Barnes, recently retired National Park Service Archaeologist, gave the OAS a great talk on the old and new theories about Clovis and pre-Clovis sites on November 5, particularly relating to the Borax Lake site in California, the Hester site in Mississippi, and the Hardaway site in North Carolina, and expressed an interest in returning to give a talk on the Spanish mission period in the Southeast, another area of his expertise.
Read MoreOAS members visit Shinholser Mound site
Submitted by Stephen A. Hammack ([email protected]) \ On March 5, 2011, Ocmulgee Archaeological Society (OAS) members chose the Shinholser Mounds site on the Oconee River near Milledgeville for the group’s annual winter hike.
Read MoreOAS speakers, artifact ID days, fieldwork
The OAS has had some great speakers of late. Jack Wynn spoke in August on the fascinating topic of South American Peruvian archaeology. OAS member Dick Brunelle, who is involved in several SGA chapters around the state, spoke in September about his volunteer experiences in archaeology from projects as different as Fort Daniel in Gwinnett County, the search for the Spanish mission in Telfair County, to the Kolomoki site in Early County.
Read MoreObituary notice: Frank T. Schnell
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Photo from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer online. Frank T. Schnell was a Columbus native and long-time SGA member. He retired from the Columbus Museum in 2001 and moved to Florida with his wife, Gail, also an SGA member.
Read MoreObituary---Marilyn Pennington
Georgia’s archaeological community has recently lost one of its own. Journalist, artist, archaeologist, and ethnohistorian, Marilyn Pennington passed away on June 9, 2006 at the age of 75. Pennington was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia in 1950.
Read MoreObituary: Fred Scheidler (1947-2008)
Fred, doing what he loved. Georgia archaeology lost an enthusiastic advocate upon the premature death of Fred Scheidler on July 15th. Fred resided in Marietta and in recent years had become a constant and welcome participant at a host of archaeological gatherings in and around Atlanta.
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a geochemical dating technique that determines the age of an obsidian artifact by measuring how deep water molecules have been absorbed into the fresh surface of the flake or tool
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