Description and history
Stallings Island is located upriver of Augusta, in an area known as the Ninety-Nine Islands, just downriver of the mouth of Stevens Creek. The island was occupied from about 2600 B.C.E. to about 2000 B.C.E., and again from about 1800 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E. The site was occupied during the first period by people of the Paris Island (ca. 2500-2200 B.C.E.) and Mill Branch (ca. 2200-1800 B.C.E.) phases, pre-ceramic traditions that harvested large numbers of freshwater mussels. During the second period the site was occupied by people of the Classic Stallings culture, who used decorated pottery. The earliest, undecorated, Stallings ceramics first appeared at other sites while Stallings Island itself was unoccupied.Sassaman, Blessing, and Randall:539, 540, 551 The site represents a transitional period, in which hunter-gatherer culture was gradually replaced by more sedentary village and agriculture-based lifestyles. The island was identified as an archaeological site in 1861, and has been the subject of several scientific excavations. It has also been subject to extensive looting, and was listed for many years as a threatened landmark. The island was acquired by the Archaeological Conservancy in 1998. Stallings Island Middle School in Martinez, GA was named after this site.See also
* List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state) * National Register of Historic Places listings in Columbia County, GeorgiaReferences
* {{authority control National Historic Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state) Geography of Columbia County, Georgia Archaeological sites in Georgia (U.S. state) Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) 1861 archaeological discoveries Savannah River National Register of Historic Places in Columbia County, Georgia River islands of Georgia (U.S. state)