The Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

Original 1963 Preface

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In Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan, pp. 265–298. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Foreword / xvii Ocmulgee Old Fields near Macon,Georgia,is part of the multi-component, major Mississippian site of Macon Plateau. This great temple mound site early attracted archaeological attention, and the Lower Creek village and associated English trading house were but small parts of the large-scale excavations that took place there as part of public works following the Great Depression. Analysis of the late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century materials from the trading house and village did not take place until nearly 30 years after initial excavation. Part of the signi¤cance of this site lies in its secure identi¤cation with a known group of people and the linkage of those people with recognizable archaeological remains. It was among the very ¤rst for which this kind of identi¤cation was possible and thus stands at the head of a continuing tradition of historic sites archaeology in the Southeast. The report itself includes a discussion of the historic setting and an analysis of the archaeological materials with an identi¤cation of the Lower...