Behaviour Cemetery

Part of: Sapelo Island

All GA DNR HPD reports, documents, images, and data sheets concerning the Behaviour Cemetery on Sapelo Island

Site Name Keywords
Behavior Cemetery • General

Site Type Keywords
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Cemetery • Non-Domestic Structures • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Plantation Site • Slave Cabin

Other Keywords
GPR Survey • Field School • Field Notes • Template Forms

Culture Keywords
Historic • African American • Prehistoric • Euroamerican

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Historic Background Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Systematic Survey • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Architectural Documentation • Architectural Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing

Material Types
Glass • Ceramic • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Metal • Building Materials • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Shell

Geographic Keywords
US (ISO Country Code) • United States of America (Country) • Georgia (State / Territory) • McIntosh County (County) • North America (Continent)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-15 of 15)

Documents
  • Architecture, Settlement Structure, and Labor Relations At Three Antebellum Plantations On Sapelo Island, Georgia (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Morgan Crook, Jr.. Nicholas Honerkamp.

    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...

  • Architecture, Settlement Structure, and Labor Relations At Three Antebellum Plantations On Sapelo Island, Georgia (2009)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan Ray Crook, Jr..

    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)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Lindsey Cochran. Ray Crook.

    “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)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

    “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)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan Crook, Jr..

    “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)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

    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: Behavior Cemetery NR Nomination (1996)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Black

    National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

  • Sapelo Island: Behaviour Cemetery 2010 Forms (2010)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

    Template Forms 2010

  • Sapelo Island: Behaviour Cemetery Grave- and Gravestone related Data (2010)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

    Behavior Cemetery 2010 Analysis Files

  • Sapelo Island: Preservation Work on Behaviour Cemetery (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Bedell. Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

    E-Mail Correspondence 2008 - 2010 regarding Maintenance Work (clean-up) on the Cemetery

  • Sapelo Island: UTC Field School - Behaviour Cemetery Field Notes 2010 (2010)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

    Student Fieldnotes 2010

Images