John P. Rogan
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Who is John P. Rogan?
John P. Rogan conducted the first archaeological excavations on the Etowah Indian Mounds near Cartersville, Georgia for the Smithsonian Institution working under Cyrus Thomas during the early 1880s. He discovered a set of copper plates, the Etowah plates, several of which are the famous copper eagle dancer plates, which were later named the Rogan plates. Rogan tested seven other archaeological sites in Georgia in Bartow, White, Habersham, Forsyth, Rabun, Elbert, and McIntosh counties. He resigned in 1886 to work in the mercantile business in Bristol, Tennessee.
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