38BU2 (Site Name Keyword)
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Brockington and Associates, Inc., undertook archaeological excavations at Spring Island, Beaufort County South Carolina. The proposed residential development of the Spring Island Company would have resulted in impact to sites 38BU791 (Bonny Shore Slave Row) and 38BU2 (Thom’s Creek and Deptford shell middens). Mitigation of the potential adverse effects of this impact was achieved through data recovery.
What is a Shell Midden? Data Recovery Excavations of Thom's Creek and Deptford Shell Middens, 38BU2, Spring Island, South Carolina (1994)
Data recovery excavations were conducted at five shell midden loci of site 38BU2, Spring Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The excavations included: four by four m blocks in three Deptford phase middens; a four by four m block in a Thom's Creek midden; a six by six m block in a Deptford midden; and two exploratory one by one m units in other Deptford middens. The analyses included detailed zooarchaeological and ethnobotanical studies, an investigation of oyster source environment and...