Upcoming Events:
SDAMP Artifact Identification Workshop:
Our workshop features a mixture of lectures and hands-on activities designed to help you identify some of the types of artifacts you collect from South Carolina waters. We hope to help you better understand and identify artifacts so that you can love your collection even more and report your finds more accurately to us. Historic and prehistoric ceramics, bottles, Native American stone tools, and much more will be covered. You will get the opportunity to work with real archaeological material. Please note that we will not be covering any paleontological material (fossils: i.e. shark teeth and bone). The details about the lecture are below: SDAMP Artifact Identification Workshop Date: March 19, 2011 Time: 9am-5pm Location: Fort Johnson Marine Resource Center, Charleston, SC Cost: $30 (make checks payable to USC) There are only 8 places left for this workshop so sign up now! Email deming@sc.edu to reserve your spot. I will need cash, check, or money order by March 4, 2011 to put you on the official list. Contact:
Ashley M. Deming Manager Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program Maritime Research Division South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Phone: 843-762-6105 Email: deming@sc.edu Coastal Carolina University's Archaeology Field Schools: Next summer’s archaeology field school advertisements are beginning to circulate. Coastal Carolina University will be offering a four-week prehistoric field school (May), a five-week ethnoarchaeology field school (June-July), and a five-week maritime archaeology field school (July-August).
Edgefield Field School: In Edgefield ,South Carolina, a historic archaeology focus will be offered by Dr. Christopher Fennell of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 23, 2011 to July 1, 2011. This six-week field school will provide training in the techniques of excavation, mapping, controlled surface surveys, artifact classification and contextual interpretation. Evening lectures by project staff, visiting archaeologists, and historians will focus on providing background on how field data are used to answer archaeological and historical research questions. For more information, visit http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/Edgefield/
Kolb Site Excavations and Public Day: Chris Judge has shared some information about the excavation plans for the Kolb site this year, scheduled for 7-18 March. A public visitation day on 12 March is open to everyone, and participation opportunities are available as well. Contact him as soon as possible at judgec@mailbox.sc.edu for more information.
The Kolb site is a fascinating example of life on the PeeDee river system from prehistoric times through historic farming communities. KOLB SITE 2011 March 7-18th Public Day is March 12th BACKGROUND READING FOR KOLB: KOLB SITE WEB SITE 38DA75.com ARTICLES: http://www.scwildlife.com/pubs/marapril2010/archaeology.html http://www.southcarolinawildlife.com/pubs/marapril2003/greatpeedeehp.html
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRECTIONS TO SITE: Located on Great Pee Dee Heritage Preserve, Mechanicsville, Darlington County South Carolina. DRIVE SLOW ON DIRT ROAD!! https://www.dnr.sc.gov/mlands/directions?p_id=22 GPS DEPENDENTS: Latitude: 34.367 Longitude: -79.757 (takes you to Great Pee Dee Heritage Preserve, not site) once you enter gate at GPD Heritage preserve along access road, travel 3 miles along dirt road SLOWLY SLOWLY SLOWLY
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