OCMULGEE
Guidebook
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CONTENTS

Cover

Ocmulgee National Monument    Background of Ocmulgee
   The Significance of Ocmulgee
Archeological Features at Ocmulgee National Monument
   Ceremonial Earth Lodge
   Prehistoric Dugouts or Fortifications
   Cultivated Field
   Trading Post
   Large Ceremonial Mound
   Burial Mound
   Burials
The Museum and Nature Trail

THE COVER

Approach to the Ceremonial Earth Lodge, or council chamber, built by the Macon Plateau dwellers at Ocmulgee about 600 years ago.


UNITED DOI logo STATES
DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Arno B. Cammerer, Director


CCC logo
CIVILIAN
CONSERVATION CORPS
ROBERT FECHNER, Director

ADVISORY COUNCIL

GEORGE P. TYNER, Brigadier General. Representing the Secretary of War

CONRAD L. WIRTH, Supervisor of Recreation and Land Planning, National Park Service. Representing the Secretary of the Interior

FRED MORRELL, Assistant Chief Forester, United States Forest Service. Representing the Secretary of Agriculture

CHESLEY W. BAILEY. Representing the Veterans' Administration


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