A Weeden Island Burial Mound - Open site which contains PDF ...

asseshled in the laboratory.
So little information is at hand from burial mounds along
the Flint-Chattahoochee confluence that these salvaged materials
and notations from the Lake Douglas aound are presented for
whatever value they may have for investigators in the Florida-
Georgia area. Clarence B. Moore bad excavated most of the
burial mounds in this region at the turn of the century. He had
made test excavations into several “domiciliary aoundse, which
on revisiting in our survey turned out to be plowed down or
rudimentary in the half century that had elapsed since MooreIs
day. The sites recossaended for salvage in the River Basin Survey
of the Smithsonian Institution consisted of shell middens and
village occupations, the two most important being at Fairchild’s
Landing and Montgomery Fields.
The excavation account will susmarize the notes on the
22 burials uncovered at Lake Douglas and the pottery cache. Two
profile cross-sections, a draught of the pottery cache and
surrounding burials, are presented in connection with this
description.
The pottery from Lake Douglas shows some aberrant features,
not duplicated elsewhere in the basin survey, particularly the
severely conoidal aspect of some of the vessels recovered from
the pottery cache. The question of the chronological position
of this burial mound is raised, and preliminary presentation of
these data might elicit some helpful conments.
-3-