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While in the Washington office he worked on materials he had pre- 

 viously collected in Georgia and also started detailed studies on the 

 ceramic material he had obtained while digging at Russell Cave in 

 Alabama. He also examined numerous archeological specimens sent 

 to the Washington office by private collectors. In January he as- 

 sisted in setting up a series of archeological exhibits at one of the 

 schools in Newport News, Va. He also completed two short papers 

 for publication, one describing certain polyhedral cores found in 

 Kansas, the other discussing Chenopodium weeds as a source of food 

 for Southeastern Indians. On May 15, Mr. Miller left Washington 

 for Eocky Mount, Va., to resume his investigations in the Smith Moun- 

 tain Reservoir Project area, and at the end of the year he and his 

 small field party were digging in one of the best sites found in 

 that locality. 



Alabama-Georgia. — Harold A. Huscher spent the week of Novem- 

 ber 4-10 at the Walter F. George Reservoir, checking and photograph- 

 ing sites as they were being progressively flooded by the rising waters 

 of the reservoir. At the upper end of the reservoir the historically 

 important Coweta Town House site, 1 RU 9, where Oglethorpe 

 held a peace conference with the Creek chiefs in 1739, was being 

 destroyed by grading for the new Phoenix City dock development. 



The Walker Street site (Key School site) , 9 ME 60, reported by 

 David W. Chase, Fort Benning Infantry Museum, was being destroyed 

 by an eroding drainage ditch and immediate salvage operations were 

 recommended. Huscher returned to Georgia on February 7, 1063, 

 and, working under an emergency grant, investigated this site, which 

 proved to be an Early Woodland occupation level buried in a natural 

 levee of the Chattahoochee River south of Columbus. With the as- 

 sistance of David W. Chase of the Infantry Museum, power equip- 

 ment was used in stripping the overburden from 1,600 square feet 

 of the site. The exposed camp layers were then excavated using 

 power-screening techniques. Post holes in linear and curvilinear 

 arrangements were recorded, but no complete house patterns were 

 worked out. Twenty occupational features, including pits and 

 hearths, were recorded. Over 3,000 sherds and stone artifacts were 

 recovered, of which 1,000 were sherds of the sand-tempered fine- 

 checked (Cartersville Check Stamped) types. There were 40 exam- 

 ples of the tetrapodal pot-base and 9 examples of the subrectangular 

 flat pot-base, characteristic of the late Deptford Period. Minority 

 pottery types were, in descending frequency, large check stamped, 

 complicated stamped, linear check stamped, and simple stamped. A 

 few sherds showed combinations of check stamped and complicated 

 stamped, possibly transitional Deptford-Swift Creek forms belonging 

 with Willey's New River Complicated Stamped. The characteristic 



