Behavior Cemetery (Site Name Keyword)
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Research at three antebellum plantations on Sapelo Island, Georgia indicates a wide variety in Geechee settlement forms, construction techniques and materials, and architectural artifacts associated with structures. Based on documentary and archaeological data, two contrasting forms of settlement patterning are described that correlate with distinct labor relations at individual plantations. Significant slave cabin construction changes over a 60 year period are presented that resulted from...
Community-Based Mortuary Archaeology On Sapelo Island, Georgia (2011)
“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This quote from a Geechee resident of Sapelo Island, Georgia expresses her distress about an ongoing problem at Sapelo’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from recently dug graves. It also provided the impetus for a community driven program of mortuary archaeological research focusing on (1) discovering the spatial and temporal parameters of a 19th century slave site within the Cemetery parcel; (2)...
GPR Survey at Behavior Cemetary, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This statement, made by a Gullah-Geechee resident of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is important for two reasons. First, it speaks to an increasingly common problem occurring at the Island’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from attempts to dig new graves. Second, it provided the impetus for a community-driven program of mortuary archaeological research at Behavior by the...
Mortuary Research at Behavior Cemetery (9MC498), Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This statement, made by a Gullah-Geechee resident of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is important for two reasons. First, it speaks to an increasingly common problem occurring at the Island’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from attempts to dig new graves. Second, it provided the impetus for a community-driven program of mortuary archaeological research at Behavior by the...
Research at Behavior Cemetery, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
In May of 2010 the University ofTennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) carried out archaeological research at Behavior Cemetery on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Honerkamp and assisted by Dr. Ray Crook (Professor Emeritus, University of West Georgia), students enrolled in the UTC Archaeological Field Methods course participated in a program of archaeological survey and reconnaissance at the c. five-acre Cemetery. Based on a request from Gullah-Geechee residents of the Hog...
Sapelo Island
Sapelo Island Project
Sapelo Island: Behavior Cemetery - Artifact and Report Pictures 2010 (2010)
Artifact and Report Pictures: Glass, Vial Pipe Stems and Bowl Ceramics Flint, Lithics
Sapelo Island: Behavior Cemetery - Gravestone Pictures 2010 (2010)
2010 UTC Field School Gravestone Pictures
Sapelo Island: Behavior Cemetery - Various Pictures 2010 (2010)
Field Photos 2010 Area, Units, Profiles
Sapelo Island: Behavior Cemetery NR Nomination (1996)
National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
Sapelo Island: Behaviour Cemetery 2010 Forms (2010)
Template Forms 2010
Sapelo Island: Behaviour Cemetery Grave- and Gravestone related Data (2010)
Behavior Cemetery 2010 Analysis Files
Sapelo Island: Behaviour Cemetery Photos 2008 (2008)
Gravestone Photos
Sapelo Island: Mortuary Research at Behavior Cemetary (9MC498) (2010)
In May of 2010 the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) carried out archaeological research at Behavior Cemetery on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Honerkamp and assisted by Dr. Ray Crook (Professor Emeritus, University of West Georgia), students enrolled in the UTC Archaeological Field Methods course participated in a program of archaeological survey and reconnaissance at the c. five-acre Cemetery. Based on a request from Gullah-Geechee residents of the Hog...
Sapelo Island: Preservation Work on Behaviour Cemetery (2008)
E-Mail Correspondence 2008 - 2010 regarding Maintenance Work (clean-up) on the Cemetery
Sapelo Island: UTC Field School - Behaviour Cemetery Field Notes 2010 (2010)
Student Fieldnotes 2010