Lowcountry, South Carolina (Geographic Keyword)

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Paddling Into The Past: Conserving South Carolina’s Oldest Indigenous Watercraft (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas J (1,2) DeLong. Gyllian (1,2) Porteous.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In August 2020, the WLCC took temporary custody, for the purposes of conservation, of an indigenous dugout canoe that had been illegally recovered from the Cooper River, South Carolina. Through carbon dating, this canoe has been dated to 4170 years old (±60) placing this canoe as the oldest in the state uncovered to date. The...