In 1933 Ford developed a tentative chronology of the Native American cultures on the lower Mississippi River.
[1] Between 1933 and 1934, he worked at the Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia, under Arthur Randolph Kelly.
From August 1 to September 1, 1934, he worked for the Georgia State Parks Service; and later that year, from September 2 to October 15, he worked for the Southeast Fair Association to develop an American Indian Exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia.
His experiments with loess soil, to find the purpose of the hundreds of thousands Poverty Point objects, were the beginnings of experimental archaeology in North America.
His samples and results of radiocarbon dating were inaccurate due to the very early stages of that technology.