2006
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Occasional Papers of the Georgia Southern Museum, Number 1, January 2006
Ryan D. Curran
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Georgia Southern University
Faculty Sponsor: Sue M. Moore, Ph.D.
Old Town Plantation is a five thousand acre tract of land located on the Ogeechee River near Louisville , Georgia. Over one hundred archaeological sites ranging from prehistoric to the early twentieth century have been identified within the plantation's borders. During its expansive history, Old Town 's occupants have included Native Americans, slaves, convicts, a millionaire and a governor. In the late nineteenth century, tenant farming and sharecropping became the principle commercial enterprise on Old Town and almost one hundred tenant structures along with various commercial buildings including a four-floor gristmill were constructed on the site. This survey focuses on a standing tenant structure colloquially designated the Miller's House due to its proximity to the gristmill. The primary goal of this survey was to document the architectural and material culture associated with the Miller's House. Because Georgia 's historical sites are rapidly disappearing, additional emphasis was placed on recording the structural details of the dwelling. Included in the survey are the historical context, environmental context, research methodology, results, conclusions, and associated photographs, maps, and tables.
Occasional Papers of the Georgia Southern Museum, Number 2, March 2006
Jason Dittmer, Ph.D.
Department of Geology and Geography
Georgia Southern University
Paul Watts
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
This research note provides preliminary data on the geographic attitudes of a sample of self-identified anarchists at the Group of Eight protests in Savannah, Georgia. Anarchists completed open-ended surveys at the protests in which they were asked to provide information about their geographic images of the G8 member-states. More specifically, the spatiality of their geopolitical views was teased out through questions that assessed the flavor of their cognitive associations with the various states in the G8 (plus the EU). Our research found evidence of a highly differentiated spatial pattern.
2008
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Occasional Papers of the Georgia Southern Museum, Number 3, August 2008
Christopher M. Stojanowski, Ph.D.
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
William N. Duncan, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
St. John Fisher College
This monograph consists of the initial morphological observations of a forensic case study from Spanish colonial Florida. Historical, ethnohistorical, archaeological, and forensic anthropological data are combined to evaluate the claim that the calvaria excavated at the Fort King George site near Darien, Georgia belonged to Fray Pedro de Corpa, a 16th century Franciscan who was martyred in 1597 during a general uprising of the indigenous Guale Indians that inhabited this region. De Corpa, and the other four “Georgia Martyrs,” are being postulated for canonization by the Order of Friars Minor, and our interest in, and involvement with, this case stems from the Franciscans' interest in determining whether the Fort King George specimen is that of one of the Georgia Martyrs, and if so, which one.