Recent Investigations at the Musgrove Shell Ring (9LI2169) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia
Author(s): Anna Semon; Rachel Cajigas; Elliot Blair; Matthew Sanger; Alain Plattner
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In this poster, we present the preliminary findings on recent fieldwork at the Musgrove Shell Ring. Due to the ring’s low topography and dense vegetation coverage, archaeologists did not identify the ring prior to the review of new LIDAR data, which showed an anomaly approximately 60 m in diameter. Fieldwork consisted of a shell density survey and multiple geophysical techniques including gradiometry, electrical resistance, ground penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography, and time domain induced polarization. Additionally, limited excavations of the shell deposits and the center helped confirm a Late Archaic shell ring, making it the third on St. Catherines Island.
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Recent Investigations at the Musgrove Shell Ring (9LI2169) on St. Catherines Island, Georgia. Anna Semon, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot Blair, Matthew Sanger, Alain Plattner. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499405)
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Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 38877.0