Contact Information:
Primary Organization: University of Georgia
Mailing Address:
Dr. Carey J. Garland
Laboratory of Archaeology
Department of Anthropology
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
E-Mail: carey.garland@uga.edu
GCE Data Sets:
ANT-GCED-2112 (Shell geochemistry and environmental instability along the Georgia Coast during the Late Archaic Period (5000 - 3800 BP) )
ANT-GCED-2005 (Oyster Paleobiology along the South Atlantic Coast of the United States)
Journal Articles
Garland, C.J., Thompson, V. D., Howland, M.D., Gragson, T.L., Andrus, F.T., Demyan, M. and Parbus, B. 2024. Stable Isotope Analysis and Chronology Building at the Hokfv-Mocvse Cultural Site, the Earliest Evidence for South Atlantic Shell-Ring Villages. American Antiquity. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2024.36)
Thompson, V. D., Sanger, M., Smith, K. Y., Garland, C.J., Howland, M.D., Andrus, F.T., Holland-Lulewicz, I., Hadden, C. S., Alexander, C.R. Jr., Cajigas, R., Blair, E., Semon, A.M. and Thomas, D.H. 2024. Shellfishing, sea levels, and the earliest Native American villages (5000–3800 yrs. BP) of the South Atlantic Coast of the U.S. Scientific Reports. 14(22322). (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72567-w)
Thompson, V. D., Smith, K. Y., Sanger, M., Garland, C.J., Pluckhahn, T., Napora, K., Bedell, J., Hadden, C. S., Cherkinsky, A., Cajigas, R., Blair, E., Semon, A.M. and Thomas, D.H. 2024. The dynamics of fishing villages along the South Atlantic Coast of North America (ca. 5000–3000 years BP). Scientific Reports. 14(4691). (DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55047-z)
Garland, C.J. and Thompson, V. D. 2023. Collective action and shellfish harvesting practices among Late Archaic villagers of the South Atlantic Bight. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 69:10. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101483)
Parbus, B., Thompson, V. D., Garland, C.J. and Tucker, B. 2023. Bluff Field (9CH160) ceramics and radiocarbon dating and their implications for chronology building on Ossabaw Island and the Georgia coast. Southeastern Archaeology. 42(4):272-289. (DOI: 10.1080/0734578X.2023.2250610)
Garland, C.J., Thompson, V.D., Sanger, M., Smith, K.Y., Andrus, C.F., Lawres, N.R., Napora, K., Colaninno, C.E., Compton, J.M., Jones, S., Hadden, C.S., Cherkinsky, A., Maddox, T., Deng, Y.-T., Lulewicz, I.H. and Parsons, L. 2022. A Multi-proxy assessment of the impact of environmental instability on Late Holocene (4500-3800 BP) Native American villages of the Georgia Coast. PLOS One. (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258979)
Reeder-Myers, L., Braje, T. J., Hofman, C. A., Elliot Smith, E. A., Garland, C.J., Grone, M., Hadden, C. S., Hatch, M., Hunt, T., Kelley, A., LeFebvre, M. J., Lockman, M., McKechnie, I., McNiven, I. J., Newsom, B., Pluckhahn, T., Sanchez, G., Schwadron, M., Smith, K. Y., Smith, T., Spiess, A., Tayac, G., Thompson, V. D., Vollman, T., Weitzel, E. M. and Rick, T. C. 2022. Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management. Nature Communications. 13(2383). (DOI:
Thompson, V.D., Rick, T., Garland, C.J., Thomas, D.H., Smith, K.Y., Bergh, S., Sanger, M., Tucker, B., Lulewicz, I.H., Semon, A.M., Schalles, J.F., Hladik, C.M., Alexander, C.R. Jr. and Ritchison, B.T. 2020. Ecosystem stability and Native American oyster harvesting along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Science Advances. 6. (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba9652)
