Society for Georgia Archaeology
Society for Georgia Archaeology (SGA) Annual Spring Meeting
Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Archaeological Encounters in Georgia’s Spanish Period: New Discoveries and Improved Understandings
When James Oglethorpe founded the English settlement of Savannah in 1733 the land that became Georgia already wore the imprint of Native American Indian and European interaction. For more than 200 years the region’s Native people had already witnessed an initial wave of Spanish and French exploration followed by prolonged Spanish settlement.
Throughout this tumultuous time, the traditional cultures of both indigenous Native Americans and colonizing Europeans were significantly and permanently altered. It is a complex history and because written records are not sufficient to expose its many intricacies, archaeology becomes a critical avenue for learning about this often over-looked period of Georgia history. Join us a symposium to learn more about this time, and other aspects of our state’s heritage.
Cost: Free for Fernbank Museum members, SGA members and registered meeting attendees.
Space is limited and registration is recommended. Call 404.929.6414 or e-mail archaeology@fernbank.edu for registration or more information.
Program of Presentations (Auditorium, Lower Level)
David Crass (Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division)
Perspective on Georgia’s Spanish Colonial Period from the State Archaeologist
John Worth (University of West Florida)
The Earliest Years: Europeans on the Georgia Coast, 1514-1587
Richard Melvin
The Land of Ayllon and the Province of Guale
Jim Langford (Coosawattee Foundation)
Update on Spanish Period Site Investigations in Northwest Georgia
Dennis B. Blanton and Frankie Snow (Fernbank Museum of Natural History and South Georgia College)
New Evidence of Early Spanish Activity on the Lower Ocmulgee River
Jeannine Windham (New South Associates, Inc.)
Foodways at a Square Ground Lamar Site (9TF145)
Mark Williams (University of Georgia)
Notes and Queries on Spaniards and Indians in the Oconee Valley
David Hurst Thomas (American Museum of Natural History)
New Developments in the Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale
Richard W. Jefferies and Christopher R. Moore (University of Kentucky)
Recent Mission Period Archaeological Investigations on Sapelo Island
Carolyn Rock (Brockington & Associates, Inc.)
The San Pedro Mission Village on Cumberland Island
David Hally and Marvin Smith (University of Georgia and Valdosta State University)
Mechanisms of Exchange in the Spanish-Indian Trade