Atlanta's Legacy: The MARTA Collection
Author(s): Lori C. Thompson; Jeffrey Glover
Year: 2018
Summary
The City of Atlanta was born from Terminus, a junction of rail lines, in the nineteenth century. Archaeological excavations for a modern transportation system, Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), were conducted in the late 1970s. The results of this massive urban archaeological project identified 40 sites, along with 29 areas of artifact concentrations. The return of the MARTA Collection to Georgia State University has revealed new insight into nineteenth and twentieth century Atlanta. This paper will discuss the history of this project and highlight the ways in which the ‘re-excavation’ of this legacy collection are adding to our understanding of this southern metropolitan city.
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Atlanta's Legacy: The MARTA Collection. Lori C. Thompson, Jeffrey Glover. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441178)
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Keywords
General
Atlanta
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Legacy Collection
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Urban Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
19th-20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 429