Island along Georgia's coast has revealed cremated remains. The
internment reveals something about the kinds of belief involving death
during the Woodland period. Similar cremations have been found on St.
Catherine's Island. Native Americans in the area had moved to the
coast in the winter for shellfish and inland in the spring for deer
hunting and to the uplands in the fall to gather nuts.
The burial pit was lined with wood and oyster shells. The body was
placed on top of the wood and then burned. The body looks like it was
reburied elsewhere later. There has been a radar survey and charcoal
carbon-14 analysis will be done. Shell mounds at the site date back to
2000 BCE and 230 sites have been found on the island.
The Daily Citizen has the story here;
http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/statenews/local_story_352144343.html
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