Avery site
Location | South Appalachian Mississippian culture |
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Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1966, 1967, 1968 |
Architecture | |
Architectural styles | platform mound |
Architectural details | Number of temples: 2 |
The Avery site (9TP64) was an archaeological site, now destroyed, located in Troup County, Georgia east of the Chattahoochee River. Early investigations at the site began in 1966 by Harold Huscher, which led to a larger excavation in June 1967, and again in 1968. According to Huscher, the Avery Site is most definitely related to the Georgia Fall Line sites. The site once had two platform mounds, the Avery Mound, the northernmost of the two, was eroded by cultivation and weathering, however enough remained to give evidence to multiple periods of mound rebuilding. 300 feet (91 m) to the south was the Potts Mound, yet while it was bulldozed for field leveling there was still outlining evidence of the mounds former existence.
Surrounding the two mounds was a large village area, dispersed with various
This was the extent of the excavation done at the Avery site, even though Huscher believed more should be done on the charcoal-like core mound and palisade.
References
- Harold, Huscher (1972), The Avery Site : Archaeological Investigations in the West Point Dam Area:A Preliminary Report, vol. 1 of 2, Department of Sociology and Anthropology: University of Georgia