[Federal Register: August 14, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 157)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the State
University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, and in the Control of the
Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta, GA; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession of the State University of West Georgia,
Carrollton, GA, and in the control of the Georgia Department of
Transportation, Atlanta, GA. The human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Richmond County, GA.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3).
The determinations within this notice are the sole responsibility of
the museum, institution, or Federal agency that has control of the
Native American human remains and associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible for the determinations within
this notice.
This notice corrects the number of associated funerary objects
reported in a Notice of Inventory Completion published in the Federal
Register on January 11, 2002 (FR Doc 02-734, page 1507). The notice
described the human remains of one Native American individual and six
associated funerary objects, including one partial shell-tempered plain
globular jar with flaring rim. Although the partial globular jar was
included in the Rae's Creek inventory of human remains and associated
funerary objects, the jar (accession number 303) has not been located
thus far in the Rae's Creek collection or in any of the curated
collections at the Antonio J. Waring, Jr., Archaeology Laboratory,
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA. The original notice
is corrected by substituting paragraphs four through seven with the
following paragraphs --
In 1988, human remains representing one individual were excavated
from the Rae's Creek site (9Ri327), Richmond County, GA, by Dr. Morgan
R. Crook, Jr., of Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. The work was
conducted as part of a highway construction project under Georgia
Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration contract M-
750 (4). The remains are curated at the Antonio J. Waring, Jr.,
Archaeology Laboratory, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton,
GA. No known individual was identified. The five associated funerary
objects are two columella shell ear pins, two faceted glass beads, and
one chert biface.
The Rae's Creek site is located near the confluence of Rae's Creek
and the Savannah River. The human remains and associated funerary
objects date to the early 1700s based on the artifacts recovered from
the site, such as the faceted glass beads, which date to that time
period. The artifacts suggest a Creek Indian affiliation. Consultation
evidence presented by representatives of the Creek tribal governments
indicates that this area was within the traditional occupation
territory of the Creeks during this time period.
Officials of the Georgia Department of Transportation have
determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the human remains
described above represent the physical remains of one individual of
Native American ancestry. Officials of the Georgia Department of
Transportation also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2
(d)(2), the five objects described above are reasonably believed to
have been placed with or near individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite or ceremony. Lastly, officials
of the Georgia Department of Transportation also have determined that,
pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group
identity that can be reasonably traced between the Native American
human remains and associated funerary objects and the Alabama-Quassarte
Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek)
Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama; and
Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with the human remains and associated funerary
objects should contact Eric Anthony Duff, NAGPRA Coordinator, Georgia
Department of Transportation, Office of Environment/Location, 3993
Aviation Circle, Atlanta, GA 30336-1593, telephone (404) 699-4437,
facsimile (404) 699-4440, e-mail eric.duff@dot.state.ga.us, before
September 15, 2003. Repatriation of the human remains and associated
funerary objects to the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma;
Kialegee Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma;
Poarch Band of Creek Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town,
Oklahoma may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
The Georgia Department of Transportation is responsible for
notifying the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town, Oklahoma; Kialegee Tribal
Town, Oklahoma; Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Oklahoma; Poarch Band of Creek
Indians of Alabama; and Thlopthlocco Tribal Town, Oklahoma that this
notice has been published.
Dated: July 3, 2003.
John Robbins,
Assistant Director, Cultural Resources.
[FR Doc. 03-20758 Filed 8-13-03; 8:45 am]
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