EARLY VILLAGES on the RIVER CHATTAHOOCHEE Georgia Two Carterville sites reveal permanent villages settled by hunters. pre-agricultural By A. R. KELLY Reconstruction of a prehistoric hut. development, with increasing freis quency, showing a more enlightened conIndustrial cern for what lies in its way; often it is no longer cavalier about ploughing up - or under irreplaceable archaeological evidence simply to keep on schedule. Occasionally industry goes a step further and joins the archaeologist in his retrieval of the past. Such was the case in 1969, when from March to November the Great Southwest Atlanta Corporation sponsored operations of an Indian village on the banks of the Chattahoochee outside Atlanta. In the spring of the following year, a similar venture was undertaken six miles away on Nickajack Creek, one of the Chattahoochee's smaller tributaries. There on the grounds of the Pebblebrook Senior High School, excavations for a pipe line prompted the discovery of the remains of another village; the unearthing of this site enabled students from the school to sharpen their historical skills with supervised fieldwork and, in the process, to enlarge the body of knowledge about early settlements in this area.