Ownership of antiquities and the international art market...
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Photo by Herbert Knosowski/Associated Press. Writes John Tierney in the 16 November 2009 New York Times: Scientists and curators have generally supported the laws passed in recent decades giving countries ownership of ancient “cultural property” discovered within their borders.
Read MorePackaging day for the Archaeology Month 2010 posters
Submitted by Tammy Herron ([email protected]) Tackling the task at hand! Packaging is underway! As the Archaeology Month Committee Chairman, you know you are on the home stretch when you are able to schedule Packaging Day for the posters.
Read MorePaddle-stamped pottery: The paddles
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) Have you ever wondered what the paddles Native Americans made to stamp decorations on the outside of pottery looked like? W.H. Holmes included a plate illustrating three paddles made by Cherokees probably in the late nineteenth century in his report “Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States,” which was printed in the Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1898–1899 (published in 1903).
Read Morepaleobotany
the study of fossil or ancient plant remains Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MorePaleoindian
a cultural period from about 12,000-10,000 BP characterized by cooperative gathering and hunting, and the high mobility of small groups (bands) of people The Paleoindian (sometimes Palaeoindian) period is the first widely identifiable culture in the New World.
Read Morepaleolithic
the earliest designated Old World cultural period beginning about 750,000 years ago, characterized by the first chipped stone tools Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read Morepaleontology
the study of fossil remains of plants and animals Posted online on Monday, January 1st, 2001
Read MorePanel discussion scheduled for Saturday, May 12th, in Savannah
Submitted by Sammy Smith ([email protected]) The Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission announces a panel discussion titled “Perspectives in Archaeology: Digging for the Truth” to be held Saturday, May 12th, at 2PM, at Trinity Church, Telfair Square, Savannah.
Read Morepercussion flaking
method for making stone tools that involves striking a lump of tool stone with another object, often stone, thereby detaching waste flakes Posted online on Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Read Moreperiod
a length of time defined by having similar features or conditions; Georgia’s prehistory is commonly defined as including the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods Posted online on Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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