From Bobby Brown to Elijah Clark: An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of an 8,250-Acre Timber Harvest Area, Thurmond Lake, Elbert, Lincoln, and Wilkes Counties, Georgia, Final Report, Part II, Survey of 8250 Acres of Timber Harvest Area at Strom Thurmond Lake 1996-1997

Summary

Under a continuing services contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District (COE), Panamerican Consultants, Inc. conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of 3,338.7 ha (8,250 a.) of proposed timber harvest lands owned or managed by the COE along upper Thurmond Lake (formerly Clarks Hill Reservoir) in Elbert, Lincoln, and Wilkes Counties, Georgia. This lower Piedmont locality is part of the upper Savannah River Basin and includes the mouths of a number of significant perennial tributaries, including the Broad River, Coody Creek, Newford Creek, Pistol Creek, and Murry Creek. The principal result of these investigations was the documentation of 446 newly recorded archaeological sites and the revisitation and documentation of 12 previously recorded sites. Sixty-one sites within this suite are recommended as potentially eligible for NRHP nomination, one site’s status is unknown because it is submerged, and the remaining 396 sites and isolated finds are recommended as ineligible. A continuous sequence of components was documented spanning virtually the entire record of human occupation in the Savannah Basin, from Late Paleoindian Dalton to the abandonment of the study area in the 1950s. The study generated an impressive prehistoric assemblage containing over 5,300 artifacts, including 132 typed projectiles, several soapstone and ceremonial artifacts, and numerous ceramics, in addition to over 1,900 historic artifacts.

Cite this Record

From Bobby Brown to Elijah Clark: An Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of an 8,250-Acre Timber Harvest Area, Thurmond Lake, Elbert, Lincoln, and Wilkes Counties, Georgia, Final Report, Part II, Survey of 8250 Acres of Timber Harvest Area at Strom Thurmond Lake 1996-1997. C. Andrew Buchner, J. Andrew Saatkamp, Eric S. Albertson. 1997 ( tDAR id: 438649) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8S75K3G

Keywords

Material
Ceramic Chipped Stone Fauna Glass Metal

Site Name
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Site Type
Artifact Scatter Cemetery Historic Structure Town / City

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.829; min lat: 33.436 ; max long: -81.84; max lat: 34.112 ;

Record Identifiers

Delivery Order No.(s): 0025

Contract No.(s): DAWC21-93-D-0040

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact catalog, artifact report, final reports, finding aid, scanned asset key, and select artifact photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include a draft report and shovel test inventory. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

File Information

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2025-0003_OCR_PDFA.pdf 203.29mb Sep 26, 2017 12:48:19 PM Confidential
Final Report, Part II

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