Under a contract to West Georgia College from the Department of Natural Resources; Historic Preservation Section (formerly the Georgia Historic Commission) the field work for an archaeological survey of Carroll and Haralson Counties was undertaken on August 14, 1974 and completed on September 19, 1974. The survey of Paulding County, included in tile same contract, was begun on October 5, 1974 and continued on week-ends until November 16, 1974. Altogether ninety-eight previously unknown or unrecorded sites were located. Reports of twenty-eight additional sites were checked in an effort to verify and establish their identity. Where it was possible to do so the site was visited and more data collected. In all one hundred and twenty-six sites are included in the following report. Of these, seventy eight were located in Carroll County, sixteen in Haralson County, and thirty-two in Paulding County. Preliminary temporal classification of these sites provided the following inventory: Three sites with a transitional Paleo Indian component, fifteen with an Archaic component, twenty-two with a Woodland component, five with a Mississippian component, and six with a historic component. Several of these sites are multiple component. It was not possible to establish a temporal position for ninety-three sites, but the majority probably fall in the Archaic or Woodland periods.
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