The historical setting -- Archaeological evidence. Excavations at Ocmulgee ; The trading house ; The Lower Creek town site ; Artifacts -- Archaeological and historical implications. Identification of the Creek town ; The Lower Creeks and their neighbors ; The origins of Lower Creek ceramics ; Conclusions -- Appendix I. Catalogue numbers of illustrated artifacts -- Appendix II. Pottery types
Summary
Ocmulgee Old Fields near Macon, Georgia, is the site of a Lower Creek village and associated English trading house dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was excavated in the early 1930s as part of a WPA project directed by A.R. Kelly, which focused primarily on the major Mississippian temple mounds of Macon Plateau. The specific data for the Old Fields was not analyzed until nearly 30 years after the excavation
