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INTRODUCTION
SIWV~ of the Jim Woodruff River Basin in Decatur and
Seminole Counties, Georgia, began in the fall of 1947 when the
author assumed his duties with the University of Georgia. Having
no teaching assignments during this first year, I was able to
devote full time to the initial phases of archeological reconnaissance
in the area to be inundated along the lower Flint and lower
Chattahooohee. Unfortunately, the beginning work was severely
handicapped by unseasonably heavy rains, with a record-mahing down-
fall of fifteen inches in twenty-four hours in the Bainbridge srsa.
Under these circumstances, my attention was direoted to a
survey of existing collections in the hands of collectors and in
consultations with lumbermen, hunters, and fishermen who had
extensive personal knowledge of the area. In this oonneotion, my
attention uas dravn to the Twin Lakes Site, or Lake Douglas Nound,
which had been excavated some years previously by local residents.
As this site was out of the river basin, I was able to begin
operations under circumstances which made investigation of other
potential sites impossible. The collections from the previous
unqualified excavations were not available, but from descriptions
given by informants it seemed likely that a burial mound of the
presumptive Needen Island Period was represented. Inspection of the
mound site revealed a rather extensive pothole operation in the
approximate center of the structure, with the peripheral portions
largely undisturbed. Also, there were suggestions that burials
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