Chad Braley – Chad Braley founded Southeastern Archaeological Services in Athens in 1983 after working as a staff archaeologist at the University of Florida Kings Bay project. For almost 40 years, Chad crisscrossed the State of Georgia, literally unearthing its history. Chad excavated everything from prehistoric sites to Civil War battlefields and Depression-era country graveyards. The height of his career came in 2002, when his team discovered an 18th century trading post on the Savannah River. Once operated by the Creek Indian trader Mary Musgrove, the site hosted the famous preacher John Wesley and was key to the establishment of the first English settlement in the Georgia colony.
Dean Wood – Dean Wood is a retired Principal and Co-Owner of Southern Research, who earned his degrees at West Georgia College and UGA. His archaeological work and advocacy across the state and particularly in Columbus has resulted in the recordation and preservation of hundreds of sites important to Georgia’s history. Dean served on the Society of Georgia Archaeology Board and was instrumental in procuring the ArchaeoBus for archaeological education.
Kay Wood – Kay Wood is the President of Southern Research which she co-founded in 1993. She is a historian and archaeologist of the Industrial Revolution in the Deep South. She served on the SGA Board and has promoted archaeology and historic preservation across the state, including procuring the ArchaeoBus for educational opportunities.
Pat Garrow – Pat Garrow received his MA from the University of Georgia where he worked with David Hally on the King Site. He subsequently became the Atlanta Branch manager of Soil Systems, Inc. In 1984 he and his wife Barbara formed Garrow and Associates, which conducted numerous projects in the state and trained and employed many of the state’s CRM archaeologists, including Paul Brockington of Brockington and Associates and Tom Wheaton, Mary Beth Reed, and Joe Joseph of New South Associates. Garrow and Associates was purchased by TRC, which continues to provide CRM services in Atlanta.
Tom Gresham – Tom Gresham co-founded the consulting firm Southeastern Archeological Services in 1983. He has served as a board member of the LAMAR Institute, and as president of both the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists and the Oglethorpe County Historical Society. He helped draft burial laws in the state and is an awardee of the Joseph Caldwell Award for Excellence in Archaeology from the Society for Georgia Archaeology.
Paul Brockington – Paul Brockington founded the consulting firm Brockington and Associates in 1986. He served as president of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists and as a Register for the Register of Professional Archaeologists. He directed archaeological projects of all types in most regions in the USA and helped establish the CRM industry in Georgia and the larger Southeast.
JW (Joe) Joseph – Joe Joseph is a historical archaeologist and one of the founders of New South Associates. He was the lead author of Historical Archaeology in Georgia, published by the UGA Laboratory of Archaeology, and contributed to the state’s historic contexts on agriculture, industrial sites of north Georgia, and historic cemeteries. He is a past president of the Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists, archaeological appointee to the Georgia National Register of Historic Places Review Board, and past President of the Society for Historical Archaeology.