The present survey was designed to identify and evaluate cultural resources within a limited and non-contiguous research universe located along the Chattahoochee River of the Fort Benning Military Reservation, Georgia and Alabama. A contribution of this research was to provide a planning tool which could assist not only federal agencies, but also the professional archaeological community in more informed cultural resource management. To identify resources in the project areas, a physical inspection by means of transects and other search patterns was conducted by a three-person crew during September and October, 1977. In or directly adjacent to the project areas, some 450 acres, nine cultural resources of an archaeological nature were identified. Occupation at these locations was concentrated during the Woodland, Mississippian and Historic stages. Consideration of the significance of these resources resulted in two properties being considered eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.
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