The Chattahoochee Valley, one of the very important areas of Southeastern archaeology, has come only slowly to the attention of Southeastern specialists. The only extensive mound complex known on the Chattahoochee proper is the Rood's Landing group (9SW1) near Omaha in Stewart County, Georgia. The site was listed by C. B. Moore (1907, p. 448), and preliminary excavations were conducted by Joseph Caldwell (1955, pp. 24-47). Still the site is comparatively unknown and uncited except by a few regional specialists. Exploratory work at Rood's and at the Abercrombie or Fitzgerald Site (1RU61) south of Phenix City in Alabama had given check samples of pottery types permitting the provisional placement of the final manifestations or terminal occupations of the area in the general southeastern scheme (Fairbanks 1955; Hurt 1947). One extensively explored site has been the Kolomoki Mound complex at Blakely in Early County, Georgia, though not actually within the Chattahoochee Valley proper. It has been variously interpreted and as a result has not been accorded its deserved weighting in general reconstructions of the area (Sears 1956).
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