Report Abstracts

During the past few years the Southeast has given considerable thought and support to various archaeological excavations of the Works Progress Administration. In Savannah attention has been focused on the explorations at Irene Mound.

Archaeological excavations on the Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina coasts have been carried on intermittently ever since the Civil War. Probably the first investigator was Jeffries Wyman (Wyman, 1875), who dug into the shell mounds along the St. Johns River in Florida. C. C.

This report represents the final report for site 9GE162, the excavation of which was provided for in Appendix 9 of the Archaeological Salvage Agreement between the University of Georgia and the Georgia Power Company.

This report represents the final report for site 9GE175, the excavation of which was provided for in Appendix 9 of the Archaeological Salvage Agreement between the University of Georgia and the Georgia Power Company.

Site 9 Pm 260, a small multicomponent rockshelter, is located in the extreme southern portion of the Wallace reservoir on the western side of the Oconee River 2.2 km upstream from the dam (Figure _). Universal Transverse Mercator grid coordinates for the site are N 3693336 E 297744. 

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.