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Page 32 Hammocks Beach State Park Analyses are nearly complete on materials recovered during excavations at the new Hammocks Beach State Park interpretative center site . The investigations were conducted by East Carolina University, under the direction of Randy Daniel . Site 31ON665 is part of a complex of extensive Woodland-period shell middens on the central coast and has yielded large numbers of cultural features and artifacts . Although the primary occupation of the site appears to date to between A .D . 900 and A .D . 1400 , earlier occupations were also discovered . The artifacts and knowledge about the site ' s Native American inhabitants found by Dr . Daniel and his ECU crew will be incorporated into interpretive center displays and activities at Hammocks Beach State Park . Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune As part of an ongoing inventory of archaeological resources , Camp Lejeune has employed several private contractors to conduct surveys , tests , and data-recovery projects at sites threatened by base operations . Nearly three hundred archaeological sites have been identified on the base thus far , several of which are considered eligible for the National Register . The base contains a wide range of resource types , from small encampments dating to the Archaic period (ca. 7000 B . C . -2000 B . C .) to large villages occupied during the Late Woodland period, ., prior to European settlement . Marine Corps Base Bogue Auxiliary Landing Field Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point , Bogue Field, has been subject to several years of archaeological investigations . As a consequence , it is now known that virtually the entire base was once covered by precontact Native American archaeological remains , most of which , particularly near the shores of Bogue Sound, are undisturbed , . Discussions among U . S . Marine Corps , Cherry Point ; U . S . Navy; and OSA staff are leading to the definition of a twenty-acre area that will be protected as a coastal " archaeological preserve " at Bogue Field . -- Mark A . Mathis SOUTHERN PIEDMONT Fort Bragg Major archaeological investigations have been conducted at several locations in the southern Piedmont over the past year . Investigations have included large-scale surveys of newly acquired lands at Fort Bragg in Cumberland and Hoke Counties , including the Overhills tract formerly owned by the Rockefeller family , and data recovery excavations at Fort Bragg sites . More than six hundred new archaeological sites were found on the Overhills tract . They are being added to the statewide archaeological inventory .