GAAS teams with the Flat Rock Archive
Beginning in May 2008, members of the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society have participated in a project complete with a sense of historic preservation and civic responsibility. Dedicating time and...
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Period Time Subsistence Pattern Settlement Pattern Diagnostic Features Post war, global economy, information age AD 1945 to Present Corporate agriculture, international trade, service industry, and...
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Road trip: Augusta’s Springfield community
Next time you're in Augusta, go downtown and visit the Springfield community. Springfield community is just west of the original downtown Augusta, right on the river. The community was a free African...
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SGA leadership tours Sapelo Island
When the SGA leadership visited the coast in February 2010, many of us also toured Sapelo Island with archaeologist Dr. Ray Crook, who has worked on the island for decades. We took the morning ferry...
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Rice-farming in Georgia, briefly
Rice was an extremely important commercial crop in antebellum coastal Georgia. Yet, today, there's very little rice grown in that area. This Weekly Ponder briefly considers the economic history of...
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Flat Rock Community history celebration: October 30th
The Flat Rock Archives and Museum is hosting its 1st Annual Commemorative Ancestors' Walk and Community History Celebration Saturday, October 30, 2010. Flat Rock Archives and Museum invites you to join...
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Preserving the last remaining school house on St. Simons Island
Preservation of aging buildings can offer knotty problems. Indeed, preservationists are often first faced with difficulties in purchasing the land a building sits on. Since 2004, preservationists have...
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Flat Rock African-American Museum & Archives 1st annual celebration honors...
The Flat Rock Archives Slave Cemetery Dedication and Libation Ceremony held October 30, 2010, paid tribute to the ancestors of their community through honor, celebration, and history. With a large...
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Cemeteries are constructed for the deceased but hold insights into the...
The Flat Rock Cemetery in Lithonia displays the widespread rural African-American custom of burying the dead with simple fieldstones placed at the head and foot of the interment. Belief did not place...
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Archaeological excavations in Augusta reveal material culture of racial...
Augusta followed some of the broader trends of urbanization experienced across the USA in the 19th century. As the city spread from its original core area, it took on many characteristics of a modern...
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Rituals and archaeology: MLK’s two burial places
Did you know that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s remains have been buried twice? At his funeral in 1968, they were buried at South-View Cemetery on the south side of Atlanta. Then, in 1977, Dr. King's...
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“African American Voices” Oakland Cemetery’s first cell phone tour
Jeanne Cyriaque, African American Programs Coordinator for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division has notified the SGA about the launch of “African American...
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Golden Isles members busy contributing to multiple projects
SGA Board Member and Golden Isles Chapter member Kevin Kiernan provides an update on the many research projects Golden Isles members have underway. Activities include searching for a Spanish mission,...
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DeKalb County research project open to the public
The Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance, Inc. and Georgia's Historic Preservation Division (HPD) are partnering in a public archaeology project at the Lyon Farm in DeKalb County. The public is...
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Avondale Burial Place video
Recently, New South Associates was contracted by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to recover, analyze, and relocate the Avondale Burial Place in southern Bibb County. Fieldwork...
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Get Your Copy of the 2016 Lesson Plan
The Society for Georgia Archaeology proudly presents the 2016 lesson plan Dynamic Borders: The Archaeology of Cumberland Island, Georgia. It is the nineteenth in SGA's series of Archaeology...
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