MOUNDS OF THE LOWER CHATTAHOOCHEE AND LOWER 
FLINT RIVERS. 
By CLARENCE B. Moore. 
Chattahoochee river, having its source in northeastern Georgia, continues in a 
southwesterly direction until it reaches the middle of the western boundary of the 
State at Westpoint; thence, flowing in a southerly direction, it forms the boundary 
between parts of Georgia and of Alabama and, later, between parts of Georgia and 
of Florida, until its union with the Flint river when, as the Apalachicola river, it 
continues in a southerly direction to the Gulf of Mexico. 
Flint river rises approximately in the central part of Georgia and keeps a 
southerly and southwesterly course to its junction with the Chattahoochee. 
This report treats of the aboriginal remains of part of the Chattahoochee and 
of part of the Flint rivers, in each case our journey being northward from the 
junction of the two streams, at which point our investigation of a previous season 
had come to an end. 
The portion of the Chattahoochee covered by us (see map) lies between River 
Junction, Fla., and the city of Columbus, Ga., a distance of 161 miles by water; 
and that part of the Flint investigated extends from the Junction to Bainbridge, 
Ga., 28 miles up the stream,—in each case our work being continued practically 
to the end of navigation. 
As in former years, two agents, one of whom is thoroughly familiar with 
mound investigation, were sent out in advance of us thoroughly to cover our field 
of work that the exact situation of mounds and the names of their owners might 
be known to us, previous to our coming, thus saving a great expenditure of time. 
On the Chattahoochee the presence of burial mounds was noted by us as far 
up as Columbia, Ala., a distance of 48 miles by water. Thenceforward mounds of 
a domiciliary character only were met with, having near them, doubtless, cemeteries 
in level ground. These cemeteries, however, we failed to find, save in one instance. 
It is interesting to note, in the burial mounds of the lower Chattahoochee, the 
continuance of certain customs which have been practised in the mounds of the 
northwestern Florida coast and of the Apalachicola river, namely, the ceremonial 
deposit of earthenware in the eastern part of the mound for the dead in common, 
the use of life-forms in earthenware, excisions in the body of vessels, and the 
mortuary perforation of the base. 
As to the mounds of lower Flint river, so few were found by us that no 
definite conclusion can be reached. 
All measurements of earthenware vessels herein given are approximate only, 
and reduction of size in the illustrations is linear. 
1 See “Certain Aboriginal Mounds of the Apalachicola River." Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 
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