King Archaeological Site, Archaeological settlement from 16th century on Coosa River in Floyd County, Georgia, US.

King Archaeological Site is a roughly square village of 5 acres on the eastern bank of the Coosa River at Foster Bend, about 149 metres on each side. A ditch and palisade enclose it on three sides, with the river to the north. Inside are a central plaza with a large post, about 47 rectangular houses with dugout floors, and raised maize cribs.

The settlement developed during a period when Spanish expeditions were moving through the region, with evidence of contacts during Hernando de Soto's travels around 1540 and Tristan de Luna's journey approximately two decades later. This overlap shows how the community faced major disruptions in their world.

The central plaza served as the community's gathering place where important meetings took place and where people honored their dead according to their own beliefs. These burial practices reveal how residents understood kinship and their role within the group.

The site lies on the eastern bank of the Coosa River at Foster Bend in Floyd County. Excavations in 1974, 1992 and 1993 by David Hally of the University of Georgia and Patrick Garrow of Shorter University uncovered the plaza, houses and burials; only portions of the village have been dug, so the ditch and palisade line on three sides and the river to the north frame what remains.

The village lasted 50 years or less, so no platform mounds were ever built; archaeologists suggest later generations might have raised one over the council house, structure #17, as happened at longer-occupied Mississippian sites. That square building, 15 metres on a side with benches inside, held the remains of ten adult males beneath its floor.