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I:ontgomery Meld, and other lower Flint sites, with a dropping
out of late Swift Creek Complicated and the usual site marker
types of Needen Island punctates and incised forms. A check
stamped ware, identified with Vakulla Check, but undergoing
minor morphological and decorative changes,continues.strongl.y
and dominates all of these sites.
Whaley’s Mill Site (SSelO)
About three quarters of a mile beyond the confluence of
Spring Creek with the lower Flint river on a high bluff is the
site of a saw mill which operated some twenty years before the
archeological survey. Spring Creek is a large tributary fed by
numerous deep springs in limestone sinks, a characteristic
feature of southwest Georgia end the neigboring area. It runs
north more than fifty miles from the Flint with the large springs
interspersed at intervals of every few miles. The sandy bamnocks
around the spring sites are generally covered with a heavy forest
groivth and are frequently inaccessible by virtue of the inter-
vening swales of low matsly ground. Access dirt roads and some
cleared patches utilized by local hunters and fishermen, and
logging trails, have cleared these significant locations to some
extent. Each spring site area exhibits diffuse or scattered
evidences of prehistoric occupation, usually in the form of widely
separated, localized thin middens containing shell. The
implications point to small hunting and fishing groups utilieing
the water supply and the game and shellfish concentrations
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