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Shackleford Banks: The Economical and Environmental Changing Coastal Dynamics from the Early 1800s to the Creation of the National Seashore. (2022)
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This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shackleford Banks, North Carolina is a 14.5-kilometer barrier island that has not been permanently inhabited by humans in over a century. These Ca’e Bankers lived, not necessarily in isolation, but in self-relying communities that used anything and everything to their advantage. They were able to survive by using what the landscape provided them through oystering, clamming, whaling,...