The Farmer/Kimbell Rockshelter (also known as the Marked Rock Shelter) is a multicomponent site located in the Piedmont uplands of northeast Georgia. The cultural resource management survey in 1992 that discovered the site revealed that looting and vandalism had possibly affected the archaeological integrity of the site but that further testing was necessary to properly assess the damage. Unfortunately, during the 1994 Passport in Time project, the volunteers and professional archaeologists who conducted extensive tests of the shelter and surrounding area found that the Farmer/Kimbell Rockshelter had been irreparable damaged. If it had it not been looted, the Farmer/Kimbell Rockshelter might have offered an opportunity to examine the human ecological and political systems of the Middle and Late Woodland Periods from what is arguably one of the rarest features in the Georgia Piedmont. In its present condition, the Farmer/Kimbell has little to offer scientists and the public beyond another example of individual greed outweighing the public right to learn about their past.
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