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.

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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.