Archaeological field research documenting the various Civil War engagements near Lovejoy, Georgia will resume in December, 2009. The research is spearheaded by the Georgia Department of Transportation and Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc., Athens, Georgia. This effort will focus on a proposed highway corridor for improving traffic on Jonesboro Road. Preliminary survey work revealed that this [...]
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Battles of Lovejoy Revisited
November 14, 2009
Gunflints in Georgia and Adjacent Parts
November 4, 2009
Presentation at SEAC Mobile, 2009, by Daniel T. Elliott, The LAMAR Institute.
This study focused on aspects of gunflints, where gunflints are viewed as indirect indicators of weapons arsenals. By comparing weaponry over a variety of sites in one specific geographic region, some interesting patterns appear.
In an earlier 1992 study of gunflints in the southeastern U.S., [...]
I gots Procyon lotor in my Belly!
September 6, 2009
Yesterday I attended the 74th Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City, Louisiana.
http://www.shrimp-petrofest.org/
One food booth had the tempting offer of “Cajun Fried Coon”. How could I resist. It came on a stick, as do all main courses in south Louisiana outside of New Orleans. Attached to the stick was a raccoon leg, [...]
Walmart and Archaeological Sites, A Pattern?
July 22, 2009
I THINK I SEE A PATTERN HERE. Add to the list the Wilderness Civil War battlefield in Virginia and a Cherokee Village near Canton in Georgia. How many can you find in this picture?
Alabama city plows hill beneath 1,000-year-old Indian site to get fill dirt for a store – 7/21/2009 4:59:25 AM | Newser
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It was 40 years ago today…
July 16, 2009
Where was I? I was in a giant field at the Bert Adams Boy Scout Camp in Newton County, Georgia, sitting in the grass with about 400 other scouts. A very long extension cord had been extended into the field and a color television was mounted on a metal scaffold. The sound and visual quality [...]
Revolutionary progress | SavannahNow.com
July 15, 2009
Revolutionary progress | SavannahNow.com
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Hurricane Katrina, Los Isleños and Me
July 11, 2009
In my spare time I have been working to fix all the problems in New Orleans and surrounding areas, which were caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Of course, I have help. Yesterday I cooked my brains digging on two 50 x 50 centimeter test squares and watching a Bobcat dig a building footing at [...]
Haunted Houses of Talbot
June 26, 2009
My friend Tracy bought a new home, which is actually an old home. Now the fun begins!
Sewage plant skeptics blast EPD study
May 29, 2009
Sewage plant skeptics blast EPD study
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Georgia in the War of 1812: An Archaeological Perspective
May 27, 2009
Georgia in the War of 1812: An Archaeological Perspective
Do you know what happens in 3 years? It’s the bicentennial of the War of 1812; America’s other war with England!
On Saturday, May 30 at 2pm Fort Morris State Historic Site will host Daniel T. Elliott, President of the LAMAR Institute, who will discuss events & archaeology [...]
Slant Six–an Athens band of Archaeologists
May 22, 2009
The Slant Six (aka Slant 6 or Slant VI) was formed in the Summer of 1981 in a tiny green tin house on the Commerce Highway, several miles north of Athens, Georgia. This house was a converted garage and was then rented by one archaeologist named Elliott. The landlady was a elderly beautician and former [...]
Translations of Two Letters from Ebenezer to the SPCK, 1739
May 22, 2009
Translations of Two Letters from Ebenezer to the SPCK, 1739
A Translation of a Letter out of High Dutch, from the Saltzburgers at Ebenezer to their Benefactors in Europe.
WE, whose Names are underwritten, the Saltzburgers and all the Members of the Communion of Ebenezer in Georgia in America, present our mos t humble and most dutiful [...]
Extract from SPCK Annual Report for 1773
May 22, 2009
Some Account of the Saltzburghers Settled at Ebenezer, Georgia, 1773.
The Reverend Mr Triebner, in a Letter dated, June 1774, after expressing his Sense of the Divine Mercy, had favoured him with so good a State of Health for the two last Years that he had been very seldom interrupted in discharging his Duty, [...]
Fondest Goodbyes to Mrs. Roark
April 21, 2009
ROARK, Ethel ETHEL ELEANOR HAUSER ROARK was born December 13, 1910, in Jefferson County Georgia, the fourth of seven children of Carl Lewis and Ethel Harlow Hauser. She was a champion speller and won several competitions at the local and regional levels. After graduating from Louisville Academy in 1928 she assisted her father in the [...]
Me and Martin
February 23, 2009
June 15, 1964
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Martin Luther King, Jr., “received his honorary doctorate on June 15, 1964, along with Averell Harriman, Philip Jessup, Sargent Shriver Jr. ‘38, ‘41LLB, Alfred Lunt, and Lynn Fontanne. It was a beautiful and peaceful day. The text of King’s citation ran: As your eloquence [...]
Superfluous Wordy Verbose
January 29, 2009
“Superfluous wordy verbose”
These lyrics were penned and set to music in October 1981 at our fieldhouse in Elberton, Georgia. It is probably our shortest Slant 6 song. I wrote the song with help from Cindy Williams, our manager. Tonight I read where the average blog post on WordPress is 250 words, so I thought I [...]
Burnt Village
January 21, 2009
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Click above for Huscher’s report.
Don’t Mess with my Tutu Village
December 23, 2008
The Tutu Archaeological Village Site: A Case Study in Human Adaptation
Book by Elizabeth Righter, editor; Routledge, 2002. 379 pgs. Price around $260 US.
The first prehistoric village ever excavated in the Virgin Islands was located in Tutu, St. Thomas. Archaeologists conducted excavations in the early 1990s prior to the construction of a K-Mart store. Rita Elliott and me (Daniel [...]
H & H
October 14, 2008
Long live the H & H Restaurant, Macon, Georgia!
Rest in Piece, Mamma Hill.
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Superdan Does Saipan!
October 1, 2008
Rita and I conducted a Ground Penetrating Radar demonstration class in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands last week. A good time was had by all! Eighteen people attended the class, including representatives of the CNMI Historic Preservation Office, other CNMI agencies, utilities, and a private consulting firm. Special thanks to Roy Sablan, Jr. [...]
Fort St. Andrews and Fort St. Simons
August 20, 2008
The LAMAR Institute archaeologists participated in the first scientific studies of two British colonial forts on two of Georgia’s barrier islands–Fort St. Andrews on Cumberland Island and Fort St. Simons on St. Simons Island. Both of these studies are documented in LAMAR Institute Publication Series reports, which are available online in .pdf format at the [...]
Archaeological Study at Freetown, Grand Bahama Island
August 20, 2008
In September, 2007, the LAMAR Institute dispatched a team (Dan and Rita Elliott) to Grand Bahama Island to conduct archaeological work on the Freetown Cemetery and Freetown settlement. This project was divided into two phases. The primary goal was to “ground truth” the results from an earlier Ground Penetrating Radar survey of the Freetown cemetery [...]
Rio Guanajibo and LaGrange Gut
August 15, 2008
Daniel T. Elliott:
The LAMAR Institute, Inc.
Archaeological Survey of Two Watersheds: Rio Guanajibo, Puerto Rico and LaGrange Gut, St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
This poster highlights archaeological surveys of two watersheds in the Caribbean, Rio Guanajibo and LaGrange Gut, which were undertaken by the author. The Rio Guanajibo survey was conducted in 1986 by Garrow & Associates. This survey [...]
Robbing from Point Peter to Pay Paul
August 7, 2008
An Update on the Future of Point Peter and Vicinity
Point Peter is located at the mouth of Point Peter Creek and the St. Mary’s River at the southeastern tip of Georgia, USA. This forlorn place was once the scene of great hustle and bustle, when the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy established it as [...]
Fort Frederica Teacher’s Workshop 2008
August 2, 2008
Yesterday marked the end of another successful Teacher’s Workshop at Fort Frederica National Monument and the Glynn County School’s Oglethorpe Point Elementary on St. Simons Island, Georgia. The workshop was run by the two Ellens (Ellen Provenzano, Oglethorpe Point, and Ellen Strojan, NPS). Lecturers included myself, David C. Crass, Rita Folse Elliott, Nicholas Honerkamp, Ellen [...]
Roland A. Steiner, Archaeologist, Folklorist
July 26, 2008
Roland A. Steiner
Roland A. Steiner was born about 1840 and died in January 1906. During his life he collected more than 100,000 Native American relics from archaeological sites in Georgia. Since 1980, I have been researching this man and his crazy antics.
Roland Steiner collected artifacts from the surface, as well as from excavations, at numerous [...]
Georgia Archaeology Month 2007–A Review
July 21, 2008
Click on the link below to see the 2007 Georgia Archaeology Month Poster, Front and Back:
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Click on the link below to obtain the Teacher’s guide by Catherine Long that accompanied the 2007 poster:
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http://www.thesga.org/Teacher’s%20Packet%202007.pdf
Preview of Coming Attractions!
July 17, 2008
The LAMAR Institute team is currently ironing out the details for several exciting projects. But isn’t there an eye looking at you right now?
From Science Frontiers:
Curious Silver Crosses From A Georgia Mound
In November of 1832, two silver crosses were extracted from an Indian mound in Murray County, Georgia, along with more usual Indian relics. The [...]
Digging Augusta Georgia in 1980
July 9, 2008
Have you read this one?
University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology, Report Series Number 22.
Archaeology and Historical Geography of the Savannah River Floodplain Near Augusta, Georgia. By Daniel Elliott and Roy Doyon. 1981. (5.9 MB)
This classic study is available in .pdf format at the address below:
http://shapiro.anthro.uga.edu/Archaeology/PDFs/Lab%20Series%2022.pdf
If Ronald Reagan had not been [...]
no joy in Lovejoy–CW battlefield to be revisited by NPS
July 4, 2008
[Elliott's note: The Battle of Lovejoy was listed in the 1993 report, but it was not afforded the significance that it deserved. The NPS plans to revisit the battlefield and reassess its status.]
News from the American Battlefield Protection Program (National Park Service) website:
Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report Update & Resurvey
Congress has called for [...]
Good Morning Class, Today We Will Discuss…
June 23, 2008
Prehistory of Georgia\’s Barrier Islands
Prehistory of Georgia’s Barrier Islands.
Just sit back and watch my nifty powerpoint show.
Report to Congress on Revolutionary War/War of 1812
June 22, 2008
Above is the CD version of a report that I authored (with lots of help from others, including Rita F. Elliott, Tracy M. Dean, and Debra J. Wells. Simply click the smaller icon and the .pdf file will download.
Six years later, the final results of this project have been completed by the National Park [...]
North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, GA
June 20, 2008
The John Morrell family built a plantation on the northern end of Ossabaw Island in Georgia. Curiously enough, it was known as North End plantation. John Morrell was of Swiss ancestry and came to Georgia with his parents from Purysburg, South Carolina. That was in 1760, zoom forward to 2004. The LAMAR Institute was added [...]
Kettle Creek Battlefield
June 19, 2008
The LAMAR Institute’s archaeological team completed fieldwork of the Kettle Creek Revolutionary War battlefield this week. Now the fun part begins, washing, analyzing, mapping, etc. We found several areas related to the battle over about a 1,000 acre or more area. It was a dizzying assortment of metal detectors, GPS and GPR devices and bug [...]
It’s the years and the mileage…
June 7, 2008
Most archaeologists that I know love Indiana Jones. The four movies are invigorating and they reinforce what we all became archaeologists for in the first place, well, sort of…
I have just returned from the theatre and the 4th movie in the trilogy. I liked it, I only caught one error in the chronology, if you [...]
Joel Jones nominated for National Register?
June 6, 2008
Joel Jones, renowned Georgia archaeologist recently reached a major milestone of one-half century in age. Joel, a native of Rome, Georgia, has worked on many LAMAR Institute archaeological projects, as well as many decades of service to Universities and private Cultural Resource Management (CRM) firms. We honor him in 2008 and pose the question, should [...]
Recent Finds–Jeremy Inlet, Edisto Island, S.C.
May 7, 2008
May 6, 2008, Rincon, Georgia, Fresh from the beach.
Archaeologists have known about the paleontological fossil site at the north end of Edisto Island at Jeremy Inlet since at least the 1960s. The Charleston Museum has fossils from this place dating back to at least the 1820s and possibly earlier. I became aware [...]
Kettle Creek Revolutionary War Battlefield Project
March 31, 2008
SEEKING PRIMARY DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE BATTLE
We are currently searching for primary documents relating to the February 14, 1779 battle at Kettle Creek in Wilkes County, Georgia. If you have any letters, maps, military documents, or other primary records from the time of the battle, or other (reliable) secondary documents that are obscure, we would love [...]
Archaeofest 2008
March 31, 2008
ArchaeoFest 2008
May 31
SOLD OUT!
10AM-3PM
Phone: (912) 651-6850
Admission: Yes
Location: Battlefield Memorial Park, corner of MLK and Louisville Rd., Savannah, GA
Visit the Coastal Heritage Society’s webpage at http://chsgeorgia.org for more information.
A one-of-a-kind hands-on experience with archaeology. Kids of all ages will enjoy learning about the “real-life CSI” techniques historical detectives employ to learn secrets from the past. [...]
