Report Abstracts

The Dyar site consists of a large platform mound and associated village located in the floodplain of the Oconee River just west of the city of Greensboro, Georgia. Specifically, the site is located at Universal Transverse Mercator grid coordinates N3720024 E288888.

9Ge130 is located on a very narrow terrace immediately adjacent to the Oconee River. When originally discovered this site was thought to have a Late Archaic component since several Stallings Island fiber-tempered sherds were found in 2 posthole tests spaced 200 meters apart.

An archaeological survey of the eastern portion of Elbert County, Georgia, was conducted in 1969 by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Georgia for the National Park Service.

9Pm222 is located on a small island at Lawrence Shoals on the Oconee River, west of Weston Reeves Island and approximately one kilometer upstream from the Wallace Dam construction site. The island has been bisected by an erosional cut with the prehistoric occupation being

9Pm211 is a north facing rockshelter, composed of rounded granite boulders, located at the head of Riley Shoals of the Oconee River near its west bank. The total excavated floor area is about 7 meters by 4 meters maximum, although the border is quite irregular.

9Ge175 is located on the east bank of the Oconee River at the southernmost end of Riley Shoals. The site is on a low, very narrow floodplain with a broad, flat terrace beginning a few meters to the east.

The 1985 excavation at the Scull Shoals mound site (9Ge4) consisted of 3 weeks of excavation confined entirely to the two mounds at the site. Two excavation units were placed in each. In the smaller Mound B, these units cleaned and expanded large potholes in the summit and north side.

Between November 16 and 20, 2020, Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington), conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey of the proposed Merritt Land Holdings Development Tract in Chatham County, Georgia.

Between December 14 and 18, 2020, Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey of the proposed development of the Old Augusta Road Corridor in Effingham County, Georgia.

Between December 28, 2020 and January 11, 2021 and on May 6, 2021, Brockington and Associates, Inc. (Brockington) conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey of the proposed development at the Interstate Center III Tract in Bryan County, Georgia.