Archaeology at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah, Georgia

HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Get your free copies now! The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Archaeology Report is now available for reading and/or download. Read about the first colonial cellar (1733) excavated by archaeologists in Savannah, Georgia. Discover the African Americans who lived on the site. Learn about the family of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. This report has it all…gunflints, yep hundreds; fancy dishes, yep so many varieties; deerskin traders, we got ‘em; mysterious fire, it’s there; stagecoach owners, mayors, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, a tailor, a teacher, cooks, maids, a hosteler…Heck, we even found gold (which RARELY happens in archaeology!) The best gold of course is the wealth of information that archaeology uncovered about the many people whose lives were intwined on this small parcel. Discover early Savannah for yourself …See the links below to the LAMAR Institute web site for Volume 1 (Main report) and Volume 2 (faunal, phytolith, pollen, and macro). Special thanks to The Girl Scouts of America for sharing this important information for scholars, archaeologists, and history enthusiasts!

The two web links shown below entitle the reader to experience a wonderland of recent archaeological discoveries.

Volume 1 is, “The Work of Today is the History of Tomorrow and We are Its Makers” Archaeology at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. Volume 1. By Rita Folse Elliott and Daniel T. Elliott, 2020 (72.6 MB).

http://thelamarinstitute.org/images/PDFs/publication_227_v1.pdf

      Volume 2 is,  “The Work of Today is the History of Tomorrow and We are Its Makers” Archaeology at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. Volume 2, Ecofact Analysis. Edited by Rita Folse Elliott, 2020 (3.2 MB).

http://thelamarinstitute.org/images/PDFs/publication_227_v2.pdf

I encourage every person with a mind to read these two important reports.

Below is a link to an April 28, 2021 WTOC-TV news story about the LAMAR Institute’s research effort at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum:

https://www.wtoc.com/2021/04/28/archaeological-study-juliet-gordon-low-birthplace-turns-up-more-than-researchers-expected/