Excavations at the Muskogee Town of Cussetuh (9CE1) Draft Report

Abstract 10105.

This report describes the results of archaeological excavations at 9CE1 on Fort Benning Military Reservation, Georgia. These excavations were conducted as a part of a larger research project that is designed to refine geophysical remote sensing at archaeological sites and is funded by the Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (CS-1263). This site is well documented to represent the archaeological remains of the eighteenth century town of Cussetuh (Kasita). The excavations described here were conducted between April 11 and 15,2005 by Dr. Thomas Foster, Ph .D., and geophysicists from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and the University of Arkansas. Three hundred square meters were excavated. Eighty-three features were identified which represent the remains of structures built by the Native American inhabitants of Cussetuh town.

                This report describes the archaeological investigations of approximately 300 square meters at 9CE1 (hereafter Cussetuh), which is in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. That archaeological site is well documented as representing the Historic period Creek Indian town of Cussetuh (Kasita, Kasihta, Cusseta, Casiste, Cazithto) (Foster 2005 (in review) ; Willey 1955-1974, n.d.d; G. Willey 1938; G. R. Willey and W. H. Sears 1952). The site is located in west-central Georgia [Figure 1.1].

Archaeological fieldwork was conducted as part of a larger research project funded by the Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) entitled "New Approaches to the Use and Integration of Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Historic Resource identification and Evaluation (CS-1263; hereafter , Geophysics Project).