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The Beaverdam Creek Archaeological Site, (9 EB 85), is an archaeological site located on a floodplain of Beaverdam Creek in Elbert County, Georgia approximately 0.8 km from the creek's confluence with the Savannah River, and is currently inundated by the Richard B. Russell Lake. The site consisted of a platform mound and an associated village site. Beaverdam Creek is thought to have been the center of a Mississippian culture simple chiefdom with a small resident population. The primary period of mound construction and village occupation dated to the regional Savannah period of the Middle Mississippian period, specifically 1200–1300 CE, with the site's abandonment occurring sometime after 1300. The mound was high, and its base measured by . The village boundaries were delineated as 15,000 square meters. ==Excavation== *1969: The site was first observed professionally by Brooks Hutto, who reported that at least two decades of sustained looting by pot-hunters had damaged the mound and village site considerably.〔 *1971: Joseph R. Caldwell of the University of Georgia conducted an eight week field-school at the site, but a series of unpredictable and unfortunate events including dismal weather, pot-hunting raids by looters and the theft of equipment led to a disappointing excavation season.〔 *1973: Chung Ho Lee, following the passing of Joseph R. Caldwell, wrote a report summarizing the 1971 excavations. Lee concluded that the mound was a multistage platform mound constructed during the Savannah period, and that ceremonial grave goods (including a copper-covered celt) were included in the mound.〔 *1977: The Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of South Carolina conducted survey and testing that indicated a village midden was present and extended some from the mound.〔 *1979: At the behest of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Thunderbird Research Corporation undertook to more accurately delineate the village boundaries through shovel tests, augering and limited excavation.〔 *1980: Excavations by Gardner and Rappleye revealed early Lamar period (1375–1475 CE) material in the midden, and on this evidence proposed a primary use period for the site during this time. This conflicting hypothesis prompted them to recommend to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the mound be completely excavated, the village midden be extensively tested and that the floodplain to the north and southeast be thoroughly surveyed.〔 *1980-1981: With funds provided by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the University of Georgia Research Foundation,Inc. and the Archaeological Services Branch of the National Park Service began excavations as mitigation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for the construction of the Richard B. Russell Dam and Reservoir. These excavations were led David J. Hally and James C. Rudolph, and created copious amounts of information concerning mound construction stages, subsistence, social structure as well as evidence for cooking, tool making, trash disposal and one possible village structure.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beaverdam Creek Archaeological Site」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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