Morgan Ray
Crook, Jr.
Archaeologist
Ph.D., University of Florida
Professor Emeritus
University
of West Georgia
620 Sea Island
Road, #163
Active Research Interests
Archaeology of the Georgia Coast
Gullah-Geechee
Archaeology
Afro-Bahamian
Anthropology
Selected Publications & Manuscripts
2009 Bilbo (9CH4) and Delta (38JA23): Late Archaic and Early Woodland Shell Mounds at the Mouth of the Savannah River. Occasional Papers in Cultural Resource Management #17. Atlanta: Georgia Department of Transportation. pdf
2009 Madeira - The Spirit of St. Simons Island and the Colonial Coast. Manuscript. pdf
2008 Gullah-Geechee Archaeology:
The Living Space of Enslaved Geechee on Sapelo Island. The African Diaspora Archaeology Network, March 2008 Newsletter. pdf
2007 Prehistoric Pile Dwellers
within an Emergent Ecosystem: An
Archaeological Case of Hunters and Gatherers at the Mouth of the Savannah River during the
Mid-Holocene. Human Ecology
35(2):223-237. pdf Erratum. pdf
2007 A Place Known as Chocolate. Report of Investigations, Waring Archaeological Laboratory.
Carrollton: The University of West Georgia. pdf
2007 Bilali – The Old Man of Sapelo Island: Between Africa and Georgia. Wadabagei (A Journal of the Caribbean and Its
Diasporas) 10(2):40-55. pdf
2006 An Introduction to the Archaeology of Jekyll Island. Georgia Geological Society Guidebook 26:25-30. pdf
2003 Sapelo Voices: Historical
Anthropology and the Oral Traditions of Gullah-Geechee Communities on Sapelo Island, Georgia (with Cornelia Bailey, Norma Harris, and
Karen Smith). Carrollton: The State University of West Georgia. link
2001
Gullah and the Task System. Anthropology of Work Review 22(2):24-28. pdf
1992 Oyster Sources and their
Prehistoric Use on the Georgia Coast. Journal of Archaeological Science 19:483-496. pdf
1990 Rae's Creek: A Multicomponent Archaeological Site at the Fall Line along the Savannah River . Atlanta: Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University. pdf
1986 [Reprinted 1995] Mississippi Period Archaeology of the Georgia Coastal Zone. GARD Paper No. 1. University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology Series, Report No. 23. pdf
1984 Evolving Community Organization on the Georgia Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 11:247-263. pdf
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