SEVENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 9 



"The Archeology of the Clarksville Site, M Mc 14, Mecklenburg 

 County, Virginia," before a joint session of the Archeological Societies 

 of Virginia and North Carolina held at Clarksville. He completed a 

 short paper, "The Physical Structure of Eock Mound at 9 ST 3, 

 Georgia," which was published in Southern Indian Studies, vol. 11, 

 pp. 16-19. Mr. Miller furnished data that were used in the prepara- 

 tion of the "Ethnological Map of Virginia," which was published by 

 Hearn Brothers, Detroit, Mich. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Harold A. Huscher, while on 

 annual leave, assisted Dr. Richard G. Forbis, Glenbow Foundation, 

 Calgary, Alberta, in the excavation of the remains of a fortified earth- 

 lodge village at Cluny in the Blackfoot Reserve on the Bow River 

 about 65 miles east of Calgary. Returning from Canada he drove 

 south by way of the front ranges and the high plains, visiting a number 

 of the more important Early Man-type sites, such as those at Sage- 

 creek and Agate Basin in Wyoming, Dent and Apex Spring in Col- 

 orado, and Homo Novusmundus in New Mexico. In mid-August 

 he returned to duty at Lincoln, Nebr., where he made preparations for 

 resuming the archeological investigations in the Walter F. George Dam 

 and Lock area along the Chattahoochee Rivet*. Shortly after his 

 arrival at Eufaula, Ala., at the end of August, he started his fieldwork. 

 After returning to the Washington office in January he devoted his 

 time to bringing up to date the several years' backlog of maps and field 

 notes pertaining to the Chattahoochee investigations. In May the 

 processed collections of the two previous years' fieldwork in Alabama- 

 Georgia were moved from Lincoln to Washington for storage at the 

 U.S. National Museum, and Mr. Huscher proceeded to combine that 

 material with the collections he had made during the current season. 

 At the close of the fiscal year he was busy selecting bone and shell 

 specimens and items pertaining to the early colonial period for iden- 

 tification by various Smithsonian specialists. 



Alabama-Georgia, — During the period from mid- September to the 

 end of December Harold A. Huscher, using a power-dnveii screen of 

 %-inch mesh and a small crew of local laborers^ tested a series of 

 15 sites below Eufaula, Ala., in the southwestern quadrant of the 

 Walter F. George Reservoir Basin. Most of the sites fall into two 

 general classes. The first group consists of those with a predominance 

 of Mississippian pottery, characterized by the early Mississippian 

 globular pots with loop handles, comparable to the Macon Plateau 

 types in Georgia and the Gordon types in Tennessee. Such pottery, 

 actually has a long time span, continuing down to the opening of the 

 historic period (Pinellas, Fort Walton). The second group includes' 

 sites with an overlay of late Creek pottery such as the Chattahoochee 

 Brushed variants and Kasihta Red-film in association with trade 

 metal, china, and glass. 



