Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

This is local history, a post-dig analysis of the post-contact ("historic") record of a town and trading post superimposed in a site of pre-historic indigenous habitation - the Creek communities from the Chattahoochee moved here temporarily from 1690-1715 before returning. In addition to analysis of the artifacts and building sites, context is provided for the larger Creek community in this period, looking at historic accounts and maps with many partial variations in place and community names and interactions to ask who the larger network of villages and relationships were in this period, which helped me identify other local sites of interest that remain much less rigorously examined.