Lowcountry, Atlantic Coastal Southeastern USA (Geographic Keyword)

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A Commodity of Consequence: Rice, People, and Lowcountry Taskscapes (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David T. Palmer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century transformation of c. 120,000 acres of cypress and bottomland hardwood forests in the coastal region spanning southern North Carolina to northern Florida, (the Lowcountry), for commercial rice production was only possible...