At the request of the National Park Service, Southeastern Regional Office, and Ft. Benning, Environmental/ Management Division, a Phase I archaeological survey of a 1,094-acre (442.7-ha) portion of Ft. Benning Military Reservation's Compartment O-5, in Muscogee County, Georgia, was conducted by Panamerican Consultants, Inc. The study area consists of a wooded directed upland tract found west of Dozier Creek and along the northern boundary of Ft. Benning Military Reservation. The majority of the fieldwork took place over 16 work days, spread over two work intervals: February 18-27, 1995, and March 6-11, 1995. A total of 780 person hours were expended in this effort. The survey resulted is the identification of 29 new archaeological sites (9ME480-9ME508)and fourteen isolated finds. Six sites are recommended as potentially eligible, including: an Early Archaic site (9ME507), a Middle Woodland (Swift Creek) site, with a possible Early Archaic component (9ME497),a Woodland/Missippian site (9ME505), an early to late nineteenth-century domestic site (9ME490), and two late nineteenth/early twentieth-century domestic sites (9ME483 and 9ME486). The remaining 23 sites and 14 isolated finds are recommended as ineligible.
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