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The Kolomoki Mound Group, Early County, Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Charles H. Fairbanks
Charles H. Fairbanks*
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Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia
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The recent revival of interest in the Kolomoki site, little known except to southeastern archaeologists, has suggested that a short description would be of value. The mound group was described by C. C. Jones in 1873 as Messier Plantation Mound. Some random digging has been done from time to time, and several large collections of flint points have been removed. Dr. A. R. Kelly, Jesse D. Jennings, Robert Wauchope, and the writer have made surface collections which are now at Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia. Through the interest of Dr. C. C. Harrold of Macon, Georgia, the group has become a state park under the jurisdiction of the State of Georgia. Dr. Robert Wauchope and the writer excavated a series of test pits along the site of a proposed road and found evidence of scattered house sites. Jones reports burials adjacent to the large mound. During 1940 and 1941 the writer investigated two small mounds which were to be flooded by a proposed recreational development. These mounds did not yield much material, and the bulk of the information comes from the surface collections.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 1946 , pp. 258 - 260
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946

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References

1 Jones, C. C., Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes. New York, 1873.Google Scholar

2 A. R. Kelly, A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Excavations at Macon, Georgia. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 119, 1938. Descriptions of these types are available in the Newsletters of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference.

3 Willey, Gordon and Woodbury, Richard, “A Chronological OutUne for the Northwest Florida Coast,” AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1942 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The writer is indebted to Willey for a clarification of the stratigraphic and areal position of the Weeden Island complex. My pottery types for this complex are derived from sample collections excavated by Willey and Woodbury which are now deposited at Qcmulgee National Monument.

4 William H. Holmes, Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States, Bureau of American Ethnology, 20th Annual Report, 1903, pp. 122–123; Moore, Clarence B., “Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Northwest Coast of Florida, Part II,” Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Vol. 12, 1902, Figs. 59, 64, 108, 168, 174, 205, 223, 224, 272Google Scholar.

5 John R. Swanton, The Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 73, 1922, p. 267.