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The Lake Spring Site, Columbia County, Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Carl F. Miller*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D. C.

Extract

While making an archaeological survey of the Clark Hill Reservoir area in eastern Georgia and western South Carolina, the writer located an apparently undisturbed shell deposit, the Lake Spring site (9 Cu 61), which is situated 5 miles east of Pollards Crossroads, Columbia County, Georgia, on the south bank of the Savannah River about 1.5 miles upstream from the construction area of the Clark Hill dam and just west of Lake Spring Creek. It is a fairly large site with a deep midden of shells and other occupational refuse.

This can be ranked as the major site of the Clark Hill Reservoir basin. It occupies an area roughly 400 feet long and about 150 feet wide, and has only superficially been disturbed by plowing. The cultures represented are more or less intact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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