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parties of the Smithsoniar ?nst:‘.tu-iion rind the University of
Georgia, incident to the Colunbiz. and %ltsr F. George Dam and
reservoir constrtition. Some 300 sites have been located in
the new reservoir pools and around 100 of these are perceived
to have considerable site significance and will reooive whatever
salvage attention is Ij?ssiblc with available funds and within the
tino at our disposali
Another archeological event of prime importance, subsequent
to the original Jim Woodruff basin survey, was the sspioration of
the Kolormki Nouads near Blakely, Georgia, by %.lliar;; H, Sears
for the Gsorgia State Forks. Senrs published seasonal reports
and a final report, desc: -‘.bi:;G in detail his findings and giving
conclusions or intsrpretntions !&ich varied widely from
theoretical reconstructions current at the time of MS work.
The divergent views of Uesden Island chronology and sequential
development, as seen in northwest Florida (‘!illwj and at
Kolomoki (Sears) cover the whole continuum from early to ‘late and
post-Veedcn Island times, “hen %rs was analyzing his Rolomoki
ratsrials, that large and rlgosing sito appeared to be the
northern terminus 02 the T!e?den Island extension up the Chattahoochee
River. Tlo know from current Chattahooohee surveys that TIeeden
Island occurs abundantly, in sovsral stages of development, all the
way up to the Fort Benning IIilitary Reservation and Columbus,
Georgia. Tie now know precisely where Yeeden island penetration
stopped, at the rocky shoals area at Columbus Falls in the hcart of
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