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the Columbus industrial area, Beyond this point intensive survey
of a ten-mile strip in the reservoir of the Oliver Dam disclosed
over fifty archeological sites, r&y explored by the University
of Georgia field parties in 1958,yielding only one Ueeden Island
sherd. Just why Heeden Island sites, so abundant downstream
from Columbus, should come to a “screaming halt” at this point
is a question of great ecological inter’est.
Again, A. R. Kelly and David H. Chase, working under a
federal Antiquities Act Permit covering the Fort Benning area,
during the last four years have been carrying out emergency
archeology incident to salvage of materials from sites disclosed
by military operations and constructional work within the Military
Reservation, These seem to provide a perceived continuum from
late Swift Creek through incipient Weeden Island contacts to
fully developed Needen Island to later variants. However, the
long span of the Chattahooohee and the emerging picture of
lieeden Island penetration and relations with other components
afforded by this more complete site profile, is another story not
yet ready to be treated adequately, Current operations and
salvage archaeology oontemplated within the forthooming season of
1960 promise a much fuller site documentation on Needen Island
history than seemed possible a short time ago.
In the three seasons of site reconnaissance in the Jim
Noodruff basin carried out by A, R. Kelly~lBAS, 1949, and 1950,
the area between Bainbridge, Georgia and the Flint-Chattahoochee
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