[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 157 (Thursday, August 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 48623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-20758]



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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 [email protected], 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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