The Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia
Publication Year: 2005 A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication A
17th-century trading post and Indian town in central Georgia
reveal evidence of culture contact and change. Ocmulgee Old
Fields near Macon, Georgia, is the site of a Lower Creek village
and associated English trading house dating from the late 17th
and early 18th centuries. It was excavated in the early 1930s as
part of a WPA project directed by A. R. Kelly, which focused
primarily on the major Mississippian temple mounds of Macon
Plateau. The specific data for the Old Fields was not analyzed
until nearly 30 years after the excavation. Part of the
significance of this site lies in its secure identification with
a known group of people and the linkage of those people with
recognizable archaeological remains. The Old Fields site was
among the very first for which this kind of identification was
possible and stands at the head of a continuing tradition of
historic sites archaeology in the Southeast