Joseph C. Sumner Jr., amateur historian and accomplished hunter of artifacts from eastern Georgia’s Native American past, recently returned as the Bulloch County Historical Society’s guest speaker and was asked to make the connection between his finds and a $30,000 mural the society just had painted on Statesboro’s West
Main Street.
Artifact hunter explains why Historical Society chose ‘Archaic’ Native Americans for mural
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![JIM HEALY/Staff A mural commissioned by the Bulloch County Historical Society depicting Native Americans of the Late Archaic Period, 2,000 to 4,000 years ago was completed recently on West Main St. in downtown Statesboro.](https://statesboroherald.cdn-anvilcms.net/media/images/2022/06/01/images/Mural.max-752x423.jpg)
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