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DIRECTOR’S NOTE Susan Davis New Business Manager New Sergeant York Battlefield Archaeology Book Please Welcome Stacey Young––Applied Research Division VOL. 22, NO. 2, DECEMBER 2018 RESEARCH Broad River Trenching Project APPLIED RESEARCH Deer, Turtles, and Eagles and More: Animals Used at Spanish Mount MARITIME RESEARCH Submerged: Hands-On Interaction with 8th Graders RECENT SCIAA PUBLICATIONS Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the A Tribute to Elizabeth “Betty” Palmetto State Early Human Life on the Southeastern Hamilton Stringfellow (November 14, Coastal Plain and Prehistoric Chipped Stone Tools of South 1921-May 18, 2017) Carolina By Tommy Charles, Albert Goodyear, George Bell, Laura Stringfellow Wilson, and Nena Powell Rice ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH In July 2018, The University of South Stringfellow. This gift is truly appreciated, TRUST (ART) and the research staff at the SCIAA SCIAA Donors Carolina Educational Foundation Archaeological Research Trust (ART) are indebted to the family of Elizabeth EVENTS Endowment at the SC Institute of Stringfellow, fondly known as “Betty,” for 6th Annual Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) years to come. This is a legacy that stems Archaeology Film Festival––Columbia–– received a generous gift of $145,000 from from many years of true friendship–– October 12-14, 2018 the Estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton giving and receiving! ENDOWMENT OPPORTUNITIES Stanley South Student Archaeological Research Endowment Fund Thank you for your generous support of the Archaeological Research Trust (ART) Endowment Fund and the printing of Legacy. Please send donations in the enclosed envelope to Nena Powell Rice USC/SCIAA, 1321 Pendleton Street, Columbia, SC 29208, indicating whether you want to continue receiving Legacy and include your email address. All contributions are appreciated. Please visit our website at: http://www. artsandsciences.sc.edu/sciaa to download past issues, and let the Editor know if you wish to receive Legacy by email. Thank You! Nena Powell Rice, Editor, Figure 1: A Tribute to Mrs. Elizabeth “Betty” Hamilton Stringfellow. (Photo by Laura Stringfellow Wilson) (803) 331-3431 Cell, ([email protected]). See STRINGFELLOW, Page 4 Legacy is the magazine of the SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and By Steve Smith Sciences, University of South Carolina SCIAA Director Legacy will be published twice in 2018 Director’s Notes Nena Powell Rice, Chief Editor, Layout, Design, and Production ([email protected]) This issue of Legacy is highlighted by a I am very pleased to announce that the tribute to a great friend of the Institute, real director of the Institute, Susan “Radar Editorial Board Betty Stringfellow. Betty touched all our O’Reilly” Davis, has been promoted from Chester B. DePratter, Research Keith Stephenson, Savannah River Archaeological lives and her legacy gift will continue to Administrative Assistant to the Institute’s Research Program support SCIAA research in the years to Business Manager. Over the past several Jonathan Leader, State Archaeologist come. years, Susan has managed to survive the Nena Powell Rice, Archaeological Research Trust We welcome two new members to the online transformation of the universities Steven D. Smith, Director family. First, Stacey Young has joined us as financial system, kept her cool when it James Spirek, State Underwater the new Director of the Applied Research doesn’t work, maneuvered through the Archaeologist Division. Stacey comes from a solid ever-changing rules, regulations, polices, Archaeological Research Trust background in hardcore Cultural Resource procedures, and at the same time kept her Board of Trustees Management (CRM), and as a result, was sanity, and mine. For her reward, we have Bill Bridges, Chair, Greenville, SC immediately parachuted into our applied given her more responsibility and stress, George Bell, Vice Chair, Greenville, SC Kenneth Huggins, Past Chair, Mt. Pleasant, SC program and is doing spectacularly. In of course. Nena Powell Rice, Secretary, Columbia, SC her short time here, she has wrapped up Enjoy another issue of Legacy, and Steven D. Smith, Director, Ex-Officio, several outstanding projects and is starting if you have any questions or comments Columbia, SC Jonathan Leader, State Archaeologist, Ex-Officio, new ones, which you will hear about in about SCIAA or Legacy, please feel free Columbia, SC future issues. of Legacy. (See Page 3 for a to email Susan Davis at davis8@mailbox. F. Jo Baker, Pawleys Island, SC brief biography on Stacey Young.) sc.edu, or call (803) 576-6570. William A. Behan, Bluffton, SC Hunter Bridges, Greenville, SC Chester DePratter, Columbia SC Antony C. Harper, Greenville, SC Ernest L. “Chip” Helms, III, MD, Society Hill, SC Sam McCuen, Lexington, SC Ira Miller, Columbia, SC Bob Mimms, Pawleys Island, SC Patricia Moore-Pastides, Columbia, SC Bill Sullivan, Callawassie Island, SC Walter Wilkinson, Pawleys Island, SC Benjamin T. Zeigler, Florence, SC Emeritis Board Lezlie Barker, Greenville, SC Robert Benedict, Greenville, SC B. Lindsay Crawford, Columbia, SC Lou Edens, Mt. Pleasant, SC David G. Hodges, Columbia, SC Dorothy Kendall, MD, Eastover, SC Edward Kendall, MD, Eastover, SC Figure 1: Susan “Radar O’Reilly” Davis, “Making Sure We All Get Paid!” (Photo by Steven Smith) Francis Neuffer, MD, Columbia, SC Heyward Robinson, Mt. Pleasant, SC Administrative Staff to ART Board Sergeant York Battlefield Archaeology Nena Powell Rice (803) 331-3431 Cell or ([email protected]) Study Published By James Legg University of South Carolina Long-time readers may recall that in 2009, by Frontline / Pen and Sword Books, a SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology I was privileged to participate in the final major British publisher of military history. 1321 Pendleton Street and most intensive archaeological field First author Michael Kelly was an active Columbia, SC 29208 season of the Sergeant York Project, in the participant in the York research from the (803) 777-8170 (For Staff Directory) (803) 331-3431 Cell (Nena Rice) Argonne Forest in northern France (see beginning. Co-author Tom Nolan was the (803) 254-1338, FAX Legacy, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 2010). Our originator and principal investigator of the http://www.artsandsciences.sc.edu/sciaa York project is the subject of a new book project, while co-author Brad Posey was Hero on the Western Front: Discovering heavily involved in the final field season, Alvin York’s WWI Batttlefield, published the analysis, and much of the supporting See YORK, Page 3 2 Legacy, Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2018 Please Welcome Stacey Young, New Director of the Applied Research Division at SCIAA By Stacey Young Since joining SCIAA as the new Director My research interests include the of the Applied Research Division (ARD) organization and development of in September 2018, I have been immersed communities, 18th and 19th century in the archaeology and history of the plantations, African American archaeology, Sandhills regions of South Carolina and public and community involvement North Carolina. Over the past year, we in archaeology, and museum studies have had crews in the field surveying and collection management. Although, about 3,000 acres at Fort Bragg Military I find that I am generally interested in Installation. The survey work is wrapping understanding the everyday life and up, and we expect to start a testing project cultural landscape pertaining to whatever of 14 sites in January. During this time, we the material culture is. Over the past eight have also continued work at Fort Jackson years, “in my free time,” I have pursued and McCrady Training Center. some of my own research interest working Prior to my arrival at SCIAA, I worked at Hampton Plantation State Historic Site. as a Field Director for TRC and New South With the support and encouragement of Associates, archaeological consulting David Jones (SC State Parks Archaeologist) firms based in Columbia, SC, spending and Al Hester (SC State Parks Historian), time on various projects across the the assistance of dozens of students Southeastern United States and beyond. I and volunteers, and grants from the received my M.A. from the University of Humanities Council of South Carolina Southern Mississippi (2004) and my B.A. and the South Carolina State Historic from the University of Memphis (2000). Preservation Office, we have completed Prior to joining the realm of Cultural archaeological survey of the entire 294- Resource Management CRM, I worked acre property, identified evidence of the at the National Civil Rights Museum in former enslaved communities and tenant Memphis and the DeSoto National Forest farmers or sharecroppers, and an early 18th in Mississippi. I came to South Carolina in century settlement that pre-dates Hampton 2006 and became involved with various Plantation, and have engaged members organizations and volunteer opportunities of the surrounding communities in the and have served on many board positions work. The results of this work are assisting for the Archaeological Society of South the park staff in interpreting the larger Carolina