Southern Lake Allatoona Sewerage Facilities Plan

A review of literature was performed, utilizing the library facilities at The University of Tennessee, The Georgia Institute of Technology, and Georgia State University. Dr. David Halley provided and both have contributed freely to the information which follows. site files from the Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia. Dr. Lewis II. Larson, Jr. , the State Archaeologist, provided a copy of Caldwell's work, which was one of the most complete single sources found in the review. The ASCFC contributed information on many sites found in the literature which helped describe their locations and contents more fully. The literature contained references to about 150 sites, many of which were out of the study area on the north banks of Lake Allatoona or completely inundated by the lake during all periods of the year. The information was sufficiently complete to locate 83 sites within the planning area on a map (Plate V-16), and more detailed information was available for 29 of those sites. Although only those 29 sites are recorded in this text, all of the 83 sites will be examined for potential impact from the project. Virtually all the sites found in the literature were located around Lake Allatoona or in the Southern Lake Allatoona Basin. It was felt that the information was clearly incomplete, so the ASCFC was contracted to perform an additional field survey of the planning area. The ASCFC has thus far recorded about 45 additional sites, most of which are in the Noonday Creek Basin. Although the survey is preliminary, it has greatly increased understanding of settlement patterns in the planning area and provided information which will help to eliminate delays should the project require construction in that basin. The additional sites located by the ASCFC are also recorded in Plate V-16.