Beads, Pendants and Buttons from Early Historic Creek Contexts at the Tarver Sites, Georgia

Recent excavations conducted on historic Creek Indian components at the Tarver (9JO6) and Little Tarver (9JO198) sites in central Georgia produced an extensive collection of European trade material, including a large sample of glass and lapidary beads, pendants and buttons. The bead collection is significant for its size, as well as the fact that virtually all of the material was recovered from undisturbed and tightly dated burial contexts attributable to the relatively brief period between about 1695 and 1715

Kolomoki (9ER1) Mound A: 3-Dimensional Documentation and Condition Assessment LiDAR Technical Report

This technical report was prepared under agreement with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Historic Preservation Division

Terra incognita

This presentation was given at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference

Mapping Kolomoki: LiDAR, Space, Structure & Place

This presentation was given at the Symposium on Southeastern Coastal Plain Archaeology

Terra incognita: Terrestrial LiDAR Documentation of Mound A at Kolomoki (9ER1)

The manifest representation of space and place is essential to good archaeology. Our ability to document and relate these concepts, projected into the past and reflected in the present, has increased tremendously with the expansion and availability of technology. We present recent efforts to further document a well-known place in the cultural landscape: the Kolomoki site in southwestern Georgia, occupied primarily during the Middle and Late Woodland periods. Specifically, we summarize older investigations of Mound A, then present the results of recent terrestrial LiDAR documentation. Our work substantiates the claim that Mound A was the largest Woodland-period mound in Eastern North America in terms of overall volume

Terra incognita

This proceeding was published in Proceedings and Abstracts of the 73rd Annual Meeting, Southeastern Archaeological Conference