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Ceramic Stratigraphy in a Georgia Village Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Gordon R. Willey
Gordon R. Willey*
Affiliation:
Ocmulgee National Monument (CCC) in 1937-38
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This paper is limited to the presentation of the stratigraphic relationships of certain pottery types which are found in a pre-historic village site in central Georgia. These types are site markers of two established cultural horizons in the southeast, and it is evident that their wide distribution and relationships to the chronological framework of the area are of major archaeological importance. In a recently published report of investigations centering in and around Macon, Georgia, A. R. Kelly demonstrates that the Lamar and Swift Creek horizons are differentiated from each other and from other cultural complexes in the region by distinctive traits. Foremost among these traits, for each complex, is pottery.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1939 , pp. 140 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1939

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295 Kelley, A. R., A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Explorations at Macon, Georgia. Anthropological Papers, No. 1, Bulletin 119, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1938, pp. 25–31.Google Scholar

Jennings, J. D., Recent Excavations at the Lamar Site, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia. Mimeographed publication, Ocmulgee National Monument, Macon, Georgia, 1939. (Jennings suggests a tentative alignment of the Swift Creek and Lamar cultural horizons within the “Midwestern Taxonomic Scheme.” Swift Creek is described as an early aspect of the Woodland pattern. Lamar is considered a focus embodying both Mississippi and Woodland pattern traits.)

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298 Observations on vessel shape have been deduced from comparative Lamar ma terial from the Lamar site, although, rim forms from Cowart's Landing bear out the assumptions.

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