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Anthropology faculty leads $743,658 NEH project to preserve Georgia history

Amanda Roberts Thompson, Carey Garland, and Victor Thompson, faculty in the Department of Anthropology in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, are leading a three-year, $743,658 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project will preserve materials documenting Georgia from its colonial founding through the Revolutionary era and early statehood. The collaboration will include the Georgia Museum of Natural History…
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Cherokee doctoral student reinterprets New Echota through indigenous perspectives

For generations, New Echota has been remembered as the place where the Cherokee Nation's story in Georgia came to a tragic end, reflecting a historical narrative shaped largely through Eurocentric perspectives. University of Georgia doctoral student Delancey Paden Griffin believes it's time to tell a fuller story. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a second-year doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of…
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Climate change threatens archaeological heritage of coastal Georgia

A new study published February 28, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Matthew D. Howland of Wichita State University and Victor D. Thompson of the University of Georgia reports that thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, a number that will increase with climate change. Due to rising sea level and increasingly severe tropical storms, human-caused climate change poses a…
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New study shows resilience of early coastal communities in Georgia

Archaeologists have hypothesized that more than 4,500 years ago, communities on barrier islands along the southeastern coastlines of the North America were abruptly abandoned due to a sudden shift in climate. But new research from the University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology indicates that environmental change was happening both during the settlement of these island villages and—over centuries longer than previously…
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