Mississippian Occupation on the Middle Flint River

This thesis reports the results of two years of archaeological research on the Middle Flint River in central Georgia. Regional survey and test excavations were carried out between 1986 and 1988 with the aim of delineating the geographic and chronological distribution of Mississippian occupation in this region. More specifically, the project had three goals : to contribute to the growing archaeological data base for the late prehistoric societies in the Southeastern United States ; to evaluate whether local Mississippian occupation conforms to widely accepted models of Mississippian settlement distribution and political organization; and to evaluate the proposal by Hudson, et al. (1984) that the DeSoto expedition encountered the Province of Toa on the Middle Flint River in 1540