Archeology of the Funeral Mound, Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

Archeology of the Funeral Mound, Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
Title Archeology of the Funeral Mound, Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia PDF eBook
Author Charles Herron Fairbanks
Publisher
Pages 120
Release 1981
Genre Georgia
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Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986

Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986
Title Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986 PDF eBook
Author David J. Hally
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Pages 256
Release 2009-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0820334928

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From 1933 to 1941, Macon was the site of the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Georgia and one of the most significant archaeological projects to be initiated by the federal government during the depression. The project was administered by the National Park Service and funded at times by such government programs as the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Civil Works Administration. At its peak in 1955, more than eight hundred laborers were employed in more than a dozen separate excavations of prehistoric mounds and villages. The best-known excavations were conducted at the Macon Plateau site, the area President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed as the Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936. Although a wealth of material was recovered from the site in the 1930s, little provision was made for analyzing and reporting it. Consequently, much information is still unpublished. The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument. The symposium provided archaeologists with an opportunity to update the work begun a half-century before and to bring it into the larger context of southeastern history and general advances in archaeological research and methodology. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, Macon Plateau culture origins, relations of site inhabitants with other aboriginal societies and Europeans, and the challenges of administering excavations and park development.

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
Title Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia PDF eBook
Author United States. National Park Service
Publisher
Pages 2
Release 1985
Genre National monuments
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Camp Oglethorpe

Camp Oglethorpe
Title Camp Oglethorpe PDF eBook
Author Stephen Hoy
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 9780881466911

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The history of Camp Oglethorpe is largely overshadowed by that of nearby Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia. It exists primarily as a footnote in the telling of Civil War prison narratives. A comprehensive reckoning reveals a saga that brings to light Camp Oglethorpe's decades-long role as a military training ground for Georgia's volunteer regiments and as a venue for national agricultural fairs which drew thousands of visitors to Macon. Its proud heritage, however, attracted the attention of leaders of the Confederate government. To the chagrin of Macon's citizens, the acreage at the foot of Seventh Street was surreptitiously repurposed for brief periods in 1862 and 1864. Although conditions at Camp Oglethorpe never approached the appalling state experienced by POWs at Andersonville, its proximity to and association with Camp Sumter cast a specter-haunted pall over the site. As Central Georgia recovered from the tangible vestiges of war. bitter memories minimized interest in restoring the property to any of its previous incarnations. The deafening sounds of the rail commerce that would eventually be situated there were inadequate to drown out the distressful noise of raw silence. The story of Camp Oglethorpe is predominantly remembered by its association with the atrocities of war as reflected in prisoner-of-war narratives. Indeed, the cries of those who demand to be heard haunt its memory. Smith and Hoy tell this story not only as an admonition to the consciences of humanity, but to illuminate history and paint a more complete recollection of the encampment at the foot of Seventh Street. Book jacket.

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
Title Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia PDF eBook
Author United States. National Park Service
Publisher
Pages 6
Release 1941
Genre Creek Indians
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Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia

Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia
Title Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia PDF eBook
Author United States. National Park Service
Publisher
Pages 15
Release 1941
Genre Creek Indians
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Cahokia Mounds

Cahokia Mounds
Title Cahokia Mounds PDF eBook
Author Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 110
Release 2004-05-27
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0190289139

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Just a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois lies the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilizations north of Mexico. Cahokia Mounds explores the history behind this buried American city inhabited from about AD 700 to 1400, that was almost lost in metropolitan expansions of the 1960s and 1970s, but later became one of the best understood archeological sites in North America.