This report presents the archaeology of. two aboriginal sites located on the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Camden County, Georgia (Figures 1.1-1.2). Constructing the submarine base has meant the destruction of several important archaeological sites. While construction plans were altered in many instances to avoid damaging sites, the site density was too high to avoid all significant sites. Some of the most densely occupied prehistoric and historic sites were along the bluff of Kings Bay, the prime locations for building the Navy's wharf facilities. In order to satisfy Federal regulations for preservation and environmental impact on archaeological sites, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Georgia State Historic Preservation Office, and the U.S. Navy, developed a Memorandum of Agreement and the Navy contracted with the University of Florida, through which these archaeological sites could be studied and the knowledge of each preserved for the future. This long-term study of a little known area in the Southeastern United States has resulted in a tremendous increase in our knowledge of human lifeways in this area. We now have a much clearer idea of how people have lived along the coast for the past 3600 years. The research described here will be a contribution to the history and archaeology of the peoples of the Southeast, through intense study of a single place, the Kings Bay Locality.
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