Found a pit in my mapping today. Quartz rock had been dug out of it. I've seen this before, at Russell State Park on the Savannah River. It's possible that the pit was dug by the Creek Indians while looking for material to construct arrowheads. There's no flint here - quartz was about their only choice for sharp stone tools. Of course all that stopped when the deer trade began and the Creeks could afford to buy rifles.
The county name where the map is located - Coweta, comes from the name of a Creek town on the river, although I believe the actual town wasl located down near Columbus. The Creeks stayed around their towns in the summer and on their hunting grounds on the rivers and "creeks" during the winter.
I mapped five hours today in the heat. It was 93 when I got back to the truck at noon. I start at first light to beat the heat. It's not too bad really. I wear a long sleeve synthetic running shirt that is very light and white. Long sleeves to keep off the skeeters and the deer flies and horseflies. I also wear a bandana around my neck to keep the deer flies off.
Worked on the west of the "meadows" area. I'm just not up to tackling the difficult and detailed meadows in this heat. I worked the deep, dark woods, going up and down the spurs and reentrants, filling in the vegetation boundary on the west side of the meadows. It will be quite a job to get the vegetation cover correct in the meadows - a job for another day. I plan to work around them until I have them completely defined, then come back and fill in the different shades of yellow and green in the meadows.
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