Coastal Georgia Historical Society Fall Program and Reception

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Society’s Archaeology Laboratory, Lindsey Cochran, Ph.D., will present a lecture on Thursday, October 20, based on her study of Georgia’s coastal plantations. By examining the total plantation landscape of above and below ground  resources alongside documentary and geophysical data, archaeologists can reveal intricate connections between our coast and the broader Atlantic world. Results from archaeological research at Cannon’s Point Preserve on St. Simons Island and at the former Spalding Plantation on Sapelo Island highlight Georgia’s truly unique role in global plantation culture.

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Dr. Cochran is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and Director of ETSU’s Valleybrook Archaeological Laboratories. She has worked on the Georgia coast for over ten years, using STEM-based methodologies to ask humanistic questions about the lives of enslaved people and the world in which they lived.

The lecture will be followed by a wine and cheese reception at the A.W. Jones Heritage Center to celebrate the anniversary of the lab and to thank Dr. Nick Honerkamp who is retiring as the Society’s first consulting archaeologist. Dr. Cochran, a former student of Dr. Honerkamp, has graciously agreed to assume oversight of the lab. The facility was the vision of the late Ray Crook, a noted authority on coastal archaeology, who was dedicated to providing a local repository for archaeological artifacts found in Coastal Georgia.

The lecture will be held at 5 p.m. at St. Simons Presbyterian Church and will also be live streamed. Members attend the lecture free of charge, and the cost for non-members is $10. The reception at the Heritage Center is for members only. Registration is required for both events. Register/purchase tickets on Eventbrite.