Soapstone Ridge
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Soapstone Ridge is a mafic-ultramafic geological complex located in the Piedmont region, south-east of Atlanta, Georgia on a Script error: No such module "convert". area in DeKalb County and neighboring Fulton and Clayton Counties.
The ridge was named from its deposits of metapyroxenite, which early settlers wrongly believed was soapstone.[1] Many archaeological sites, including Late Archaic quarry sites dated between 600 BCE and 1500 BCE, occur on Soapstone Ridge.[2][3] At least 17 quarry sites and 23 workshops sites have been located on Soapstone Ridge.[4]
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- ↑ Freeman, David B.(1997). Carved in Stone: the History of Stone Mountain. Mercer University Press, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Elliott, Daniel T. 1986. The Live Oak Soapstone Quarry, Dekalb County, Georgia. Garrow & Associates, Inc., Atlanta. Submitted to Waste Management of Georgia, Inc., Marietta, Georgia, 124 pages.
- ↑ Elliott, Daniel Thornton. 1980. Soapstone Use in the Wallace Reservoir: A Tool for Interpreting Prehistory., Unpublished Master's thesis. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.
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- Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
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