Report Abstracts

This report on the excavation and subsequent analysis and interpretation of the Tunacunnhee Site is a somewhat revised and shortened version of a masters thesis submitted to the University of Georgia in 1975.

In our initial report on excavations it was suggested that the long stratigraphic sequence which seemed to be present in the mound offered some hope for determining when the Lower or Underhill Cherokee first came into the Tugalo River region.

A field crew from the University of Georgia, under the direction of Dr. Joseph R. Caldwell and the writer, worked for ten weeks in the summer of 1973 excavating a group of stone mounds and an adjacent habitation area in Dade County, Georgia.

Georgia Power Company (GPC) commissioned a due diligence Phase I Cultural Resources Survey in association with the proposed construction of a new tap line of the East Point–Union City (White) 230kV transmission line in Fulton County.

On October 25, 1956, the writer proceeded to Tugalo, Georgia to conduct archeological salvage operations in the Hartwell Reservoir area.

This report brings together for the first time all known information about one of the most famous, but least documented, archaeological sites in the state of Georgia-Oconee Old Town.

This report is an account of three weeks of archaeological excavations during the summer of 1995 at the Tate site (9Eb86), a single mound village site in Elbert County, Georgia.

The Potts' Tract site, 9-Mu-103, is located in southeast Murray County, Georgia, approximately 11 miles due south of Carters Dam.

Archaeological exploration at the Mandeville site (9Clal), in Clay County, Georgia, and this report of the results thereof prepared by archaeologists of the University of Georgia, are part of the InterAgency Archeological Salvage program between the National Park Service, the Smithsonian In

The Works Program Administration (WPA), designed to provide employment for large numbers of people during a time of depression, midwifed the birth of scientific archaeology in the southeastern United States.