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The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The historical archaeology of the South Carolina Lowcountry has a long and distinguished history. Stanley South, its best-known modern practitioner, spent the better part of his career with the University of South Carolina’s South Carolina Institute for Anthropology and Archaeology (SCIAA). His excavations at Charles Towne Landing, the site of the colony’s initial English settlement, were followed by dozens of projects bracketed by excavations at Fort Moultrie in the early 1970s and Santa Elena, the short-lived Spanish capital town of La Florida, with a return to Charles Towne in the first decades of the 21st century. Footnote 1 Only a few years after South arrived at SCIAA, in 1972, Leland Ferguson began his own career there, finding in the analysis of colonoware ceramics a point of entry into the experiences of enslaved Africans along the South Carolina coast and their stewardship of rice culture, a principal source of the region’s stupendous wealth. Footnote 2 Other archaeologists took on some of the broad research questions South and Ferguson pursued, but none perhaps as persistent, or with the longevity, of Martha Zierden at the Charleston Museum. Footnote 3 The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) recognized Martha’s contributions to the archaeology of Charleston and its Lowcountry environs at its 2022 annual meeting in Philadelphia, where she received the J. C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology (Joseph and King 2022 ). Footnote 4 The collection of essays in this thematic collection were gathered from a paper session dedicated to Martha at the SHA Philadelphia meeting.
DOI: 10.1007/s41636-024-00541-4
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,290
OpenAlex ID: W4406323661
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