Digging Savannah at Georgia Southern University

05/08/2025

🍑May is Archaeology Month in Georgia - it is also Preservation Month nationwide!

02/19/2025

📍 Practice anthropology in action today, at the Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop! You are welcome to join us in community and tag-filling for the exhibition, as part of Anthropology Week 2025.

✨Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM February 19
Carroll 2255, Statesboro campus

There will be snacks, while supplies last!

Questions? [email protected]

02/18/2025

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Join us TODAY in the Carroll Building Atrium for the Anthropology Career Expo!!! We have this and more exciting events to celebrate Anthropology Week at Georgia Southern (see comments or previous posts for more info). Hope to see you there!

02/14/2025

Practice anthropology in action next week at the Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop with Dr. Kara Bridgman Sweeney!
📍 Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art exhibition that seeks to memorialize and bear witness to the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico Border that has claimed the lives of thousands of people since the 1990s. This tragic loss of human life is the direct result of the U.S. border enforcement policy known as Prevention Through Deterrence (PTD). HT94 raises awareness about the human consequences of these policies while also promoting a global discourse on migration through collaboration with hosting partners and exhibition attendees around the world.

HT94 is sponsored by the GS Department of Sociology & Anthropology in collaboration with the Campus Life and Enrichment Committee, and several other departments in the GS College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Psychology, Political Science and International Studies, Criminal Justice and Criminology, and School of Human Ecology).

02/12/2025

Many thanks to The Slave Dwelling Project team for bringing their outstanding programming to Magnolia Plantation and Gardens this past weekend!

🌾🧱Cooking, brickmaking, and sweetgrass basket weaving - along with storytelling – all were demonstrated during the immersive, all-day “Living Legacies” event.

📸 1 – Brick making using local clays. Fingerprint impressions can be found on the edges of many historic bricks in our region.

📸 2 – Interior of a restored slave dwelling at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.

02/04/2025

🌱Check out this opportunity to learn about Stallings Island - from Dr. Kenneth E. Sassaman! "Reimagining the Story of Stallings Island, an Archaeological Conservancy Site of Enduring Value" is scheduled for 2/6 at 7 PM EST.
Many thanks to The Archaeological Conservancy for this programming!

Don't forget! Join for this Virtual Lecture on Thursday, February 6 at 5 pm MST.
About the presenter:
Dr. Kenneth E. Sassaman is Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology at the University of Florida. He earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1991 and has over 40 years of archaeological field experience in the Indigenous history of the American Southeast. His most recent work centers on the challenges of climate change on the gulf coast of Florida over the past 5,000 years. He is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of ten books including People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley (University Press of Florida, 2006)
Register to attend on Zoom Webinars, or watch our Facebook Live! https://bit.ly/Sassaman_Stallings

02/02/2025

🎉The Anthropology program at Georgia Southern University will soon kick off their annual Anthropology Week Celebration! Check out these events scheduled Tuesday 2/18 through Thursday 2/20 in the Carroll Building at the Statesboro campus. All events are free and open to the public!

01/17/2025

📍 You are welcome to join us in community and tag-filling, with updated resources from Hostile Terrain 94 organizers, on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service.

✨Open House & Service Event
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM January 20
University Hall Atrium, Armstrong campus
11935 Abercorn Street, Georgia Southern University, Savannah

Questions? [email protected]

12/13/2024

🔥Check out this exciting public archaeology news from DAACS!

For 24 years, Monticello’s Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery has been studying and cataloging artifacts left behind by early and enslaved Americans, creating an online arch...

11/14/2024

✨📸We enjoyed celebrating International Archaeology Day on October 19 with the Georgia Southern University Laboratory of Archaeology. Many thanks to The Friends of Fort Frederica, and the good people at Fort Frederica National Monument, for inviting our participation!
🤩 Stellar student volunteers (Meghan, Ava, Summer, and Kameren) helped to share outreach activities about stratigraphy and zooarchaeology with visitors on that beautiful (and very windy!) day on St. Simons Island.

11/12/2024

The Department of Sociology & Anthropology presents Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) – a dynamic global exhibition project carried out locally by Georgia Southern University students, faculty, staff, and volunteers.
Visitors are invited to view the results of their work by visiting the University Hall Atrium at the Armstrong campus in Savannah.
The exhibit is populated with 2,900 handwritten toe tags that represent the recovered remains of people who have died in the past 20 years while crossing the U.S./Mexico border through the Sonoran Desert.
This global exhibition series is organized by the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research-arts-education collective that raises awareness through research, education, and outreach.
Hostile Terrain 94 at Georgia Southern University is sponsored by the GSU Department of Sociology & Anthropology, in collaboration with the Campus Life and Enrichment Committee and several other departments in the Georgia Southern College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Psychology, Political Science and International Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and School of Human Ecology).

11/09/2024

Scenes from the 40th Annual Heritage Days Celebration at Penn Center.
🍑 Peach smoothie from Taste of Paradise was bountiful and delicious!
🔥The afternoon panel discussion for Gullah Heritage Symposium: Land & Legacy was incredible.
✨We also learned about ways to support with relief efforts for Sapelo Island.