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Table 17. Comparison of Indian Pottery from Mount Pleasant & the Chattahoochee River. Pottery Type TOWN TRADER CHATTAHOOCHEE 9EF169 POINT YUCHI TOWN· Count % COIIDt % COllnt % Plain 123 83.7 571 86 1525 93 Incised 3 2.0 17 2.5 48 3 Brushed 15 10.2 39 5.9 67 4 Applique sttip 5 3.4 26 3.9 1 0 ConImarlced 0 0 3 0.5 0 0 Kasita Red filmed 0 0 0 0 6 0.4 Pupctated _1 0.6 -ll 1.2. II II TOTAL 147 664 1647 ·Does not include pottery recovered during excavations by Chase or Buscher. (Source: Schnell 1982; Dickinson and Wayne 1985; Elliott 1991) categories that probably reflect the types ofweapons they were used with. Following work by Hamilton, these categories break out as follows: pistol or trade gun, less than 20 mm; trade gun 20-28 mm; carbine 28-34 mm; and musket, greater than 34 mm. Because several of the gunflints measured exactly 28 mm, an additional category oftrade gun or carbine had to be created to accomodate them. The results ofthis exercise are shown in Table 18. Trade guns were the most common weapon used on both sites, followed next by carbines. Muskets were more common at New Ebenezer where they comprised 12.9 percent ofthe sample. Some ofthese differences may be attributed to the fact that Rupert Schrempff apparently produced gunflints from English flint ballast stone. Some ofthe gunflints classified as musket flints may be late stage production discards. Alternatively, there may have been more muskets at New Ebenezer than at Mount Pleasant Hamilton notes that muskets generally were not owned by civilians, but were military weapons. Both Mount Pleasant and New Ebenezer served military functions. Schrempffs cellar was located near the fort at New Ebenezer, and some ofthe musket flints may be associated 105
with it. Since we know that Schrempff was an accomplished locksmith and blacksmith, it is not unreasonable to conclude that he also served as a gunsmith in the community. Some ofthe guntlints discarded in his cellar may have been removed from weapons brought to him for repair. Since guns were used by a broad section ofthe population, Schrempffmay have worked on firearms belonging to Indian, colonists, and soldiers. Table 18. Gun Types based on Gunflint Dimensions INFERRED WEAPON TYPE Trade gun Trade gun or carbine carbine Musket Tradegun or Pistol TOTAL Mount Pleasant !:Jlum !& 24 70.6 3 8.8 6 17.7 1 2.9 .Jl 0 34 Schremprr's Cellar !:Jlum 17 2 7 4 ....l 31 !& 54.8 Access to European Goods Since Mount Pleasant was located along a major eighteenth-century transportation route and it was the base ofoperation for several British traders, it is reasonable to expect that a variety ofEuro-American goods found their way to the site. A wide assortment of imported items were discarded there, particularly at Trader Point, and the diversity ofitems tells us several things about how Mount Pleasant functioned. There are several contradictions in the Trader Point assemblage that suggest a dual identity, or split persouality, ofthe Mount Pleasant site. While porcelain, lead crystal stemware, and pewter were discarded in considerable quantities, more mundane items such as wine bottle glass were highly curated on the site. Throughout mostofMount Pleasant the diversity ofEuro American goods was extremely limited consisting of small fragments ofbottle glass, tobacco pipes, and iron fragments. In many ways, the Trader Point assemblage appears atypical ofthe site as a whole. Although the historical documentation suggests that the Yuchi essentially had abandoned the site by the time it was settled by Euro-Americans, the data suggest a continued Indian presence at Mount Pleasant. The survey data indicate a mean occupation 106 6.5 22.6 12.9 3.2
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Ye Pleasant Mount: 1989 & 1990 Exca
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Chapter 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Table of
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Figure List ofFigures, continued 31
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Acknowledgements The author is inde
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is not known, it may have been sett
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Laboratory Methods All artifacts we
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Chapter 2. History of Mount Pleasan
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visited by Bartram was located in 1
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Ebenezer, he purposed to quit the w
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Uchee Creek in Columbia County, wit
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was: "supplying some Creek Indians
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He [Oglethorpe] stationed small gar
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Thomas Wiggin was dead by 1756, and
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continued to live near Mount Pleasa
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Table 2, Continued. Artifact Summar
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Table 3. Area C, Test Unit Summary.
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Chapter 4. Excavations at Trader Po
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Table 4. Artifact Summary, Midden,
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Figure 11. Pewter .p001l8 ad iron k
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Table 6. Ceramic Summary, Midden, c
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Tobie 7. Ceramic SU111DUIIY. FeaIUr
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Table 8. Minimum Vessel Estimate, N
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Page 98 and 99: x 28 cm north-south and it was 19 c
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Page 106 and 107: In Table 16, the Trader Point midde
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Page 119 and 120: Hemperley, Marion 1974 English Crow
Page 121 and 122: Kelly, A. R. and R. S. Neitzel 1961
Page 123 and 124: Smith, Marvin T. 1990 Historic Peri
Page 125 and 126: Appendix I. Glass Beads from Mount
Page 127 and 128: value for comparative purposes, and
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Page 133 and 134: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE M
Page 136 and 137: specimens that have been studied by
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Page 140 and 141: The domestic animals, pig, cow, chi
Page 142 and 143: Fort Michilimackinac fit well with
Page 144 and 145: REFERENCES CITED Anderson, Jay Alle
Page 146 and 147: Schmid, Elizabeth F. 1972 Atlas of
Page 150 and 151: Table 4. Species List, The Mt. Plea
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Page 156 and 157: Table 12. Element Fusion Data, Mt.
Page 158 and 159: INTRODUCTION ZOOARCHAEOLOGICALANALY
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Mollusca A total of 46 fragments of
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These data allow us to draw some co
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Analysis of butchering patterns on
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REI ...ERENCES Aldrich, Paul I. (ed
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Table 3. Fauna from Mt. Pleasant, F
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