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Pine Barrens Lamar 89 ing are examples of small satellite sites of the village at Lind Landing . The Indian trail that paralleled the Altamaha and Ocmulgee rivers from the coast at Darien to the Macon area passed along high ground 2 kilometers to the north of the site (Snow 1978). The Lind Landing site was bulldozed in 1986 and exposed midden features along a 100-meter stretch of the presumed orientation of the village. Gray clay layers were visible in two areas in the face of plow cuts. They may represent the remains of clay hearths located within Lamar houses. A cluster of carbonized corncobs, exposed by reforestation activities, was also discovered. Years earlier, a firebreak was cut into a Square Ground Lamar midden here and exposed a large quantity of ceramics and food remains-including corn, beanlike seeds, river mussels, and deer bones. A fragment of metal (from one of the features) and a blue glass bead both indicate Spanish contact at Lind Landing. Coffee Bluff, near the Ocmulgee River in Telfair County, is the location of another recently bulldozed Lamar site. Reforestation activities exposed five refuse middens in alluvial mud adjacent to a sandy interfluve where the village was located. One of these areas (midden 1) appeared to be a house mound with daub, food remains, and Lamar ceramics visible on the surface. Spanish contact was established by one sherd of lead-glazed Columbia Plain majolica recovered from the surface of this house mound. The approximate time interval for the manufacture of this style of Columbia Plain is 1580 to 1630 (Calvin Jones, personal communication). Midden 3 included fragments of a small incised vessel with handles that is similar to the type known as "gravy boat" bowl, a possible copy of a Spanish style. A sample of several thousand Lamar sherds from these exposed middens provides information on incised design variability and preference for particular motifs (Figure 7). Two basic designs found are the scroll, with several variations of the motif occurring 65 percent of the time, and the loop, with only two subvariations known and constituting 28 percent of the incised motifs. A variety of miscellaneous designs made up the remaining 7 percent of the motifs. The use of punctation occurred on one out of ten reconstructed incised vessels. The use of punctation within the incised motif may be a useful trait in separating this variant of Lamar from the more northern varieties. The incorporation of punctation in the incised motif is reminiscent of Fort Walton Incised pottery in southwest Georgia. 90 Frankie Snow Sherds from Lamar jars recovered from the middens at Coffee Bluff (9TF1l5j show pinched rim folds around the vessel lip. Both rim strips and the bodies of jars were complicated stamped with the square ground motif. Data derived from an analysis of 3,000 sherds recovered from five Square Ground Lamar sites show that 15 percent are Lamar Incised, 45 percent are Lamar Square Ground Complicated Stamped, and 40 percent are Lamar Plain (Table 2j. A cache of four broken Lamar smoking pipes was recovered from Coffee Bluff. Three were typical perishable stem types; however, a fourth one was a larger elbow type with a £lange around the bowl. Another late Lamar site, known as the Bloodroot site (9JD8lj, was recently bulldozed in Jeff Davis County on an ll-meter-high bluff overlooking the Ocmulgee River. Pike Creek (shown as "Pipe" Creek on the original land lot survey field notesj enters the river immediately below the site. An 1889 Corps of Engineers map shows rocky shoals within the river at the base of the bluff. These shoals apparently supported a large population of river mussels, which were heavily exploited by the inhabitants on the bluff, judging from the surface scatter of these shells across the site. Also important to this site was the adjacent Tallahassee 'frail, which crossed the Ocmulgee River at Burkett's Ferry near the mouth of Pike Creek. A scatter of ceramics at this site consisted of typical Lamar Incised and Square Ground Lamar Complicated Stamped sherds similar to those found at Coffee Bluff. Two areas contained visible concentrations of house daub. Partial removal of the upper 30 Thble 2 Sherd Counts from Selected Square Ground Lamar Sites SITE NAME AND NUMBER Lind Landing, 9WL7 (F1) Lind Landing, 9WL7 (F2) Lind Landing, 9WL7 Bloodroot, 91081 (Fl) Bloodroot, 91081 Coffee Bluff, 9TF1l5 (F1) Corn Cob, 9JD9 Lamar,9CF46 Coffee State Park 9CF1 INCISED 255 (20%) 42 (14%) 109 (14%) 90 (16...

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