A cultural resources survey was conducted on a 59 ha (146 ac) tract of gently rolling farm land that is to be used as a spray irrigation wastewater treatment site for the town of Vienna, Georgia. Although survey conditions were generally poor and uneven due to a dense stand of wheat, ten archeological sites were discovered. All were prehistoric sites with one site also containing an historic component. Two of the sites clearly date to the Late Archaic period, and it is possible that most of the others, which exist as varying sized lithic scatters, also date to Late Archaic. One sites 9Dy2, is a quarry site centered on a small outcropping of chert; another, 9Dy6, is a late Archaic occupation site which contained four ground stone food processing tools. The sites appear to meet the criteria for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places as' an archeological district. These sites can address numerous issues such as the nature of incipient sedentism, lithic reduction strategies, heat treating of chert and Late Archaic settlement systems. The proposed project will adversely affect these sites and a mitigation plan is recommended.
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