Archaeological Mitigation of Site 9CE198 For Fort Benning Military Reservation in Chattahoochee County, Georgia

Under a continuing services contract with the U.S. Army Infantry Center, Directorate of Public Works, Environmental Division, Fort Benning Military Reservation, Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI) conducted a Phase III archaeological mitigation of Site 9CEI98. The objective of this excavation was to mitigate the site before construction activities associated with the construction of a new motor pool began. This work was undertaken in compliance with Section I 06 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 as amended; Executive Order 11593 (Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment); and the Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act of 1974. Previous investigations related to this project included Phase I survey work by SAS (Ledbetter and Spencer 1987) and GSRC (Poplin 1987). The site was revisited again by Southern Research, Inc. while conducting a Phase I survey (Elliott et al. 2001a) and the Phase II investigation of Site 9CEI98 was conducted by PCI (Carruth et al. 2010). Based on the results of the Phase III mitigation, the site represents a late eighteenth to mid-twentieth century non-Indian house site with a prehistoric artifact scatter. The site measures 70-x-40 m and lies on a ridge saddle above Dougherty and Wortley creeks. The site is located in the west-central portion of the military reservation in the extreme western portion of Training Area BB-05. The report of PCI's mitigation of9CE198 is presented in the following chapters. Chapter I presents an introduction to the project area and discusses past investigations at 9CE198. Chapter 2 contains information concerning the past and present environmental conditions at the site. Chapter 3 contains a description of the field methods used during the mitigation and a review of the research design. Chapter 4 details the laboratory methods used during artifact analysis, provides a description of the artifacts recovered during the project, as well as an overall analysis of the material recovered at 9CE198. Chapter 5 contains the results of the fieldwork and interpretations of for 9CEI98. Chapter 6 contains a cultural history of the site. Chapter 7 concludes the report with an interpretive synopsis of PCI's findings and recommendations. Appendix A is the Material Recovered Table. Appendix B contains the revised copy of the Georgia State Site File Form. Appendix C contains the Research Design developed for the project. Appendix D is the scope of work for this project and, lastly, Appendix E contains the curriculum vitae of key personnel.