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PREFACE ji _ - 1
" is report is the fourth of a series of museum papers dealing _ { 1 ;
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1\*or* Projects Administration. Investigations at this site were   · ’ 1 _ if
gran on ]uly 22, 1941, and were concluded on August 22, 1941.   V A   _ P
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·     awpears in North Alabama, and the Marksville Period of gg —_   J  
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~it1· 1 important in having produced the first definite Marksville (   ,  
:.11+3 1 1ena material found in South Alabama, and may be signifi- Y U   ;  
~;£u11 r linking these two widely separated southern complexes      
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` V <· Museum is indebted to Mr. Chester McQuorquodale, of i i`    
. lacle   Alabama, for ermission to excavate on his oro ertt. i V Y  
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!`\l¤¤l~’ ria, whose aid and suggestions, based on years of research   , i `    
Oil ti prehistory of this region, were most helpful.   _ `V    
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