Georgia Southern University Laboratory of Archaeology

Here is the Savannah Municipal Archives' most recent #HungryForHistory program featuring archaeologist Rita Elliott of the LAMAR Institute discussing Savannah's Archaeology!

Great news for Georgia Southern's archaeological collections! Thanks to the Faculty Research Committee for its support to improve the collection holdings of the R M Bogan Archaeological Repository!

Great work being done to rehabilitate a historic African American cemetery in Richmond Hill. https://www.savannahnow.com//restoring-past-through-strath

Congratulations to Haley Henderson, spring 2019 graduate and long-term laboratory assistant in the Archaeology Lab, who was recently accepted to UNC Charlotte's graduate program in Clinical Mental Health! Way to go Haley and best of luck in the program!

Congratulations to MASS graduate student Josh Herrin who is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Cultural Heritage Scholarship! Josh's thesis research "focuses on multi-cultural and economic development aspects of British Colonial Georgia" and will involve fieldwork at a mid-18th century British Colonial site in the Savannah River drainage. Way to go Josh!

Congratulations to our spring 2020 graduates who officially graduated one week ago today! Spring 2020 graduates who were active in the Lab include MASS graduate Adam Cusick and graduating anthropology majors Nellie Criswell, JC Jones, George Kase, Courtney Olig, Claire Roeker, Erin Scooler, and Stephen Tyson. We'll miss this great group of students and wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Looking to hire one of our recent graduates? Contact us at [email protected]

Congratulations to faculty member and Camp Lawton project director Dr. Ryan McNutt for receiving a grant from the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program!

Two weeks ago the Archaeology Lab was a busy place. It is much quieter now. Next week our students will transition to online instruction for their courses. We wish them well with this transition and look forward to when they are able to return to campus. Stay well everyone.

Congratulations to Dr. Ryan McNutt on his new peer-reviewed paper in World Archaeology titled "The Archaeology of Military Prisons from the American Civil War: Globalization, Resistance and Masculinity"! Dr. McNutt serves as the director of the Camp Lawton Archaeological Project, a long-term research project focused on the Civil War prison located near Millen, Georgia. https://www.tandfonline.com//full/10/00438243.2020.1739553

Great recent profile on Elizabeth Wing, a pioneer in zooarchaeological research. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu//elizabeth-wing-portrai/

Georgia Southern's archaeological field school spent some time this week conducting excavations with the Lamar Institute in historic Savannah. https://fox28media.com//archaeology-students-volunteer-at-

Great work being done by the Lamar Institute in historic Savannah.

One more day until the Richard Persico Memorial Bear Roast! Join the anthropology department for an afternoon of food, beverages, and lots of fun! The Bear Roast will take place tomorrow at Dr. Altman’s house at 12 PM. Tickets are $12 each and children are free. Students, faculty, families, and alumni are more than welcome and make sure to bring a dish, games, and/or picnic blankets! For questions and to purchase tickets, please email [email protected]. See you there!

Tomorrow, faculty member Dr. Viriginia Estabrook will be a featured speaker for the "A Moveable Feast" series. The event's title is "Breaking Gendered Boundaries in Our Bones and our Crimes." The talk begins at 6 pm at the Temple Mickve Israel in Savannah.

Publication alert! New coauthored paper by faculty member Dr. Matthew Compton and coauthor Dr. Tom Whyte of Appalachian State University in American Antiquity. The paper explores the curious case of abundant toad remains among Native American village deposits in the southern Appalachians. The occurrence of these toad remains has variously been attributed to natural entrapment, food use, and even ritual use due to the hallucinogenic properties of compounds found in toad skin! The authors use skeletal representation, ethnohistoric documents, and experimental archaeology to determine the cause of this unusual archaeological signature. https://www.cambridge.org//E9A817FACDFF4385B9EECAF51F2079E1