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ton office working on records and collections from the previous field 

 season. Early in August he established headquarters at Eufaula, 

 Ala., for a series of archeological studies in the Walter F. George 

 Reservoir basin on the Chattahoochee River. Because of unfavorable 

 weather conditions, he ended his field activities there at the end of 

 December. In November he participated in the sessions of the Con- 

 ference for Plains Archeology, at Lawton, Okla., and on December 1 

 and 2 in the Southeastern Ai-cheological Conference held at Ocmulgee 

 National Monument at Macon, Ga. After his return to Washington, 

 Mr, Huscher devoted his time to the study of data and materials 

 which he had collected during the previous months along the Chatta- 

 hoochee River. At the end of May he again returned to the Walter F. 

 George Reservoir area, Alabama- Georgia, and resumed his investi- 

 gations of archeological sites to be flooded by the rising waters of 

 the reservoir. He completed his field activities at the end of June. 



Alabama-Georgm. — During the period from August 4 to December 

 30, a series of investigations was made in the Walter F. George Res- 

 ervoir basin on the Chattahoochee River by a party under the direc- 

 tion of Harold A. Huscher. They spent the first 2 weeks of the field 

 season checking a series of public-use areas laid out at regular inter- 

 vals on both sides of the Chattahoochee River from Columbia, Ala., 

 north to the Fort Benning area. Between the Fort Benning Reser- 

 vation and Columbus, Ga., a series of harbor developments is con- 

 templated, and a further check of sites was made at that location. 

 The party found that the recreation-area program would involve 

 four important sites on the Alabama side of the river and one on 

 the Georgia side. Original plans had called for virtual destruction 

 of the great Rood's Landing mound site on the Georgia side, but as 

 a result of conferences with the representatives of the Corps of Engi- 

 neers the roads contemplated were shifted so that they would com- 

 pletely miss the mounds and adjacent archeological manifestations. 

 The new plans also provided for the development of the central 

 plaza of the site as a grassed lawn area. This particular site is 

 significant because it was an important ceremonial center which 

 contained eight mounds. 



Following the study of the public-use area the crew was enlarged 

 and the remainder of the field season was devoted to an examination 

 of 24 additional sites. Collections were made from 21 of them, 9 

 of which had not previously been listed. Actual excavations were 

 made at eight sites, of which the two mounds south of Georgetown, 

 Ga., were worked most extensively. In every place where digging 

 was done, four or more squares were excavated. Each square is 

 10' X 10' in area and each was excavated in 6" levels, the material 

 from them being put through power screens. This made possible 



