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Conference paper
The Eastern Creek frontier: History and archaeology of the Flint River towns, ca. 1750-1826
Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology (Nashville, TN, 04/1997)
04/04/1997
Abstract
This paper presents a current overview of documentary and archaeological evidence for aboriginal occupation associated with the Creek confederacy in the Flint River drainage of western Georgia, correlating specific archaeological sites with named towns where possible, and predicting locations for as-yet unrecorded sites. Largely depopulated soon after the 1540 DeSoto expedition, the Flint was resettled after 1750 by satellite communities of the core Lower Creek towns of Kasihta, Yuchi, Chiaha, and Hichiti. Comparatively well-populated during Benjamin Hawkin's tenure at the Flint River Creek Agency, occupation dwindled after the Creek War and the expansion of Georgia's border between 1814 and 1826.
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- Title
- The Eastern Creek frontier: History and archaeology of the Flint River towns, ca. 1750-1826
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Conference
- Annual Conference of the Society for American Archaeology (Nashville, TN, 04/1997)
- Format
- pdf
- Copyright
- Permission granted to the University of West Florida Libraries by the author to digitize and/or display this information for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires the permission of the copyright holder.
- Identifiers
- 99380090631806600
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Language
- English