Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962

Summary

The Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection has its origins in a 1958 Smithsonian Institution survey of the Chattahoochee River basin in preparation for the construction of dams which resulted in the Walter F. George Reservoir. This survey identified Mandeville (9CY1) as the highest priority site found at that time. Excavations at Mandeville (9CY1) took place in 1959 under the direction of Principal Investigator James H. Kellar of the University of Georgia. He was assisted in the field by A.R. Kelly and Edward V. McMichael and a report discussing the results of this excavation was written by the trio in 1962 (Kellar et. al 1962). Mandeville (9CY1) is a dual mound site with an earlier village component. The cultural affinities known for the site include Cartersville, Swift Creek, Rood, and Lawson Field. The site actually has multiple cultural phases spanning from the Middle Archaic to the Late Mississippian Periods (GNAHRGIS 2012).

The other sites from Clay County included in this collection, 9CY45 and 9CY(CM6), are thought to have been collected in 1959 by the same individuals though no mention of them specifically appears in the 1962 report (GNAHRGIS 2012). The convention 9CY(CM6) is assigned as Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts temporary numbers. These numbers are purposely different in form from the usual numbers so that they cannot be confused with permanent numbers. The CM stands for “Columbus Museum” and the number that follows CM (6) is a Columbus Museum designation, and the initial number and two letter set (9CY) refers to the state and county (Schnell 1973).

The sites are located within a five mile radius of one another. This includes areas now beneath or adjacent to the Walter F. George Lake. Other archaeologists visited the site in 1908 and 1950 but any material which might have been collected is not known to be included in this collection. On the GNAHRGIS website, site 9CY45 is listed as both a Historic Period and Late Mississippian Period site, with Fort Walton and Lamar cultural affinities (GNAHRGIS 2012). Because the Mandeville Site was the focus of the archaeologists working in 1959 and the other sites were simply in the vicinity and collected at the same time, the investigation name reflects this focus on Mandeville.

In 2000, Brockington technicians documented “a minimum number of nine individuals and 50 associated funerary objects.” Although these artifacts and human remains are currently documented as being housed at the UGA, Riverbend Research Facility Laboratory of Archaeology (Atz, Huddleston & Sweeney 2000), there is a possibility that the artifacts from Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 are NAGPRA-related, and were therefore treated as such.

The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key, and select archival photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include the box labels, document folder listing, initial data collection sheet, notes, oversized material labels, photographic material labels, and records removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

Cite this Record

Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962. ( tDAR id: 426760) ; doi:10.6067/XCV851420X

Keywords

Site Name
9CY1 • Mandeville Site

Investigation Types
Heritage Management

General
Collections Management

Geographic Keywords
Chattahooche River • Clay County (County) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Sandy Creek

Spatial Coverage

min long: -85.005; min lat: 31.037 ; max long: -84.888; max lat: 31.342 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Contributor(s): Brockington and Associates, Inc.

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District; US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

Repository(s): University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia

Prepared By(s): Veterans Curation Program

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key, and select archival photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include the box labels, document folder listing, initial data collection sheet, notes, oversized material labels, photographic material labels, and records removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

Source Collections

Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection stored at the University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology in Athens, Georgia.

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-25 of 25)

Documents

  1. Artifact Report, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Roberts.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP Augusta laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. The procedures employed to re-house the...

  2. Finding Aid, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Adrienne Mann. Jonathan Pennington. William Word.

    The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as “Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962.” It should be noted that on some of the documents the site number is (9CLA1). This is simply because Georgia changed the abbreviation for Clay County from CLA to the modern CY. However...

  3. Report on Final 1962 Survey at Mandeville Site, 9 Cla 1, Chattahoochee River Basin Survey, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (1963)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Veterans Curation Program.

    In the Spring of 1962 an agreement between the National Park Service, Richmond, Virginia, and the Laboratory of Archeology, Department of Sociolocy and Anthropology, University of Georgia, took cognizance of the rapid approach of inundating waters over the Mandeville Site, 9 Cla 1, and an emergency allocation of funds from the National Park Service made possible final additional clearing of new profiles through Mound A and fresh accessions of materials from this important site. Previous...

Images

  1. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0184 (1960)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of feature 26, mound A; August 1960 during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  2. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0185 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of archaeologist on ground excavating a feature; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  3. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0186 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of standing archaeologist examining profile in trench; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  4. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0187 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of trowel with assorted artifacts on the ground; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  5. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0188 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of trowel with several groups of artifacts and features visible; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  6. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0189 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of archaeologists in trench with mound profile; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  7. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0190 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of trench excavation; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  8. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0191 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph of trench and archaeologists; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  9. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0193 (1960)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph, number 1, trench, November 1960 during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  10. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0194 (1960)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph, number 2, trench; November 1960 during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  11. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0195 (1960)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Black and white photograph, number 3, trench; November 1960 during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  12. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0233 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of Effigy, Overse; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  13. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0234 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of effigy, right profile; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  14. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0235 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of effigy, reverse; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattachoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  15. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0236 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of effigy, left profile; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  16. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0237 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of reconstructed vessel; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 archaeological investigation in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  17. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0579 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of reconstructed vessel; N.D. during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

  18. Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962, Archival Photograph 0040-0616 (2012)
    IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

    Photograph of ceramic shards during the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 in the Chattahoochee River area in Clay County, Georgia.

Datasets

  1. Artifact Database, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP Augusta laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. In the re-housing process of each investigative...

  2. Oversized Material Spreadsheet, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    This is the oversized material spreadsheet for the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection.

  3. Photographic Material Spreadsheet, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    This is the photographic material spreadsheet for the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection.

  4. Scanned Asset Key, Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 (2012)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    This is the scanned asset key for the Mandeville Site (9CY1) 1959-1962 collection stored at the University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia.