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. This kind of information, considered with Lewis and Kneberg’s discovery that the Cherokee were late arrivals on the Tennessee River (Hiwassee Island, 1946, University of Tennessee Press) may eventually shed light on the problem of Cherokee origins.
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