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Patination and Age Relationship in South Georgia Flint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

A. R. Kelly  and
Vernon J. Hurst
A. R. Kelly
Affiliation:
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
Vernon J. Hurst
Affiliation:
Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, Ga.
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Previous publications have called attention to the problem of flint decomposition or alteration in artifact and workshop materials from Archaic horizons in coastal Georgia. On the Macon Plateau, Georgia, there are stratigraphic indications of a prepottery horizon characterized by an old artifact assemblage of stemmed and concave-based projectiles, a wide range of cutting tools, both scraper and knife categories, all exhibiting partial or complete chemical alteration of the material (Kelly 1938). Related sites showing similar phenomena of altered flint, in contexts implying Archaic quarries or workshops, have been found in archaeological surveys at Lane Springs in northern Decatur County, Georgia, and in Kinchafoonee, in a Highway 19 road profile on the outskirts of Albany, Georgia (Kelly 1950). Recently, Kelly summarized these and other occurrences indicative of the widespread distribution of such materials over the entire coastal plain of Georgia (Kelly 1954). The difficulties of utilizing decomposed flint for chronometric studies were also summarized (Kelly 1953).

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1956 , pp. 193 - 194
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1956

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References

Kelly, A. R. 1938 A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Explorations at Macon, Ga. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 119, pp. 1–68, Anthropological Papers No. 1. Washington.Google Scholar
Kelly, A. R. 1950 An Early Flint Industry in Southwest Georgia. In “Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography, and Archaeology of Georgia,” The Geological Survey (Georgia) Bulletin 56. Atlanta.Google Scholar
Kelly, A. R. 1953 Age Measurements in Decomposed Flint. In “Short Contributions to the Geology, Geography, and Archaeology of Georgia,” The Geological Survey (Georgia), Bulletin 60. Atlanta.Google Scholar
Kelly, A. R. 1954 Mid-Coastal Archaic in Georgia. Southern Indian Studies, Vol. 6, pp. 14–27. Chapel Hill.Google Scholar