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canflwnce had not yet been cleared of vegetative oover and was a wild and largely inaccessible woodlaad with heavy underbrush whose terrain was kbr miyto local huntersand fishermen. The old steamboat landings, logging trails, turpentine stills, snd a few old plantations were the chief laedmerka, The ground was hardly visible for inspection of site evidenoes except where occasional snail cultivated plots, old landing roads and trails, wild hog rootings, "gopher hills", ferry sites, disclosed or upheavad the soil enough to reveal shell, corominuted charcoal, or a fen potshards. Clarance B. Moore's archeological venture a half century before along the long Print bad been carried out iu u score caeualandless arduous fashian; heproceededleisurely upsti-Sam in the "Gopher", contactiugplantat4ouowners at &mtegic iutervals whsre mounds or burial grounds werereported, arrauged for local labor and excavated sites c&ulated to be aost rewmnerative from his poiot of view. In every case where our survey returned to Moore*s sites, fn search of village r&as associated with his burial or 18domi&Uarys mounds, the results wsre largely unrewarding. Local guides who had been around when Moore wade his original survey mat "lost" in trying to pick up old familiar fields and landmarks. Two sites which yielded materials and data of importance were Chason*s Blue Springs and the Bower Plantation beyond Four Mile Creek west of Bainbridge. Host of the sites cataloged in the three seasons of the Jim Noodruff site, however, were small and thinly occupied, which Moore would )Isrdly have notiaed.
Only those sites which are related to the Lake Douglas burial mound as part of a Deeden Island s&es, rind which were large enough or yicldcd sufficient survey material to make comparisons significant, are reported at this time. Halols landing (9Drl5) On one of the traditional steauboat landing sites a few miles west of Bainbridge the survq encountered scat&rod shell midden on the eroded surface, which on trenching (5 x 20 foot) disclosed shell pockets and lenses to a depth of 18 to 24 inches. The study series of potsherds from this accumulation yielded a total of 1129, of which 82.2% was a small check stamp identified with Dakulla Check Stamped (Dillsy); 23.9$ was a plain smooth or burnished grit tempered ware whose rim profiles indicated large bowl shapes, identified with Weeden Island Plain; and a third category of Roughened or Coarse Plain grit tempered ware making up 12.3% of the total. The great majority of the &lets landing series, 97$, thus was comprised in these three types. A small minority, l.8%, gave 11 punctated sherds, six Saift Creek Coolplicated Stamped (of which three were badly smeared and partially obliterated), two vaguely incised, and two sherds with plain exteriors and red painted interiors. This errall group seemed to be a residual classification ascribable to Veeden Island punctate and incised congeries. The strong showing of Dakulla Check Stamped, essential or identical in all decorative features and general morphology with the type described by ?iillqv for the northwest -25-
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Page 3 and 4: EBEFACE University of Gsorgia Labor
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTION SIWV~ of the Jim Woodr
Page 7 and 8: The lower F3.int, from the junction
Page 9 and 10: expanse showing on the west and nor
Page 12 and 13: asseshled in the laboratory. So lit
Page 14 and 15: u...iuportant feature in connection
Page 16 and 17: Burial No. 8 was without long bones
Page 18 and 19: pear-shaped, perforated shell came
Page 20 and 21: of burning. No furniture was found
Page 22 and 23: The few artifacts listed above do s
Page 24 and 25: Vessel shapes indicated are bowls,
Page 26 and 27: exhibited apparently the same Check
Page 28 and 29: Comparison of the collections from
Page 30 and 31: Weeden Island Development iv thz Lo
Page 32 and 33: parties of the Smithsoniar ?nst:‘
Page 36 and 37: Florida Coast, along uith the grit
Page 38 and 39: Nakulla Check serioa would show fai
Page 40 and 41: Some of the "Roughened" category st
Page 42 and 43: had been a srrall sand burial’ so
Page 44 and 45: I:ontgomery Meld, and other lower F
Page 46 and 47: a separate paper. Our concern in th
Page 48 and 49: intermittently to catzp, to hunt an
Page 50 and 51: The intervening spacas botwecn the
Page 52 and 53: Fortunately, the large sherd sectio
Page 54 and 55: oooupations in northwost.Florida. T
Page 56 and 57: I . large shell middens some five m
Page 58 and 59: 16” Dia. PLATE I 6” . 4 PLATE 2

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