The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2022
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden," at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Martha Zierden, 2021 JC Harrington Award Recipient, is the doyen of Lowcountry archaeology. Over the course of her career as Curator of Historical Archaeology for The Charleston Museum, she has become the authority on Charleston’s urban studies and material culture, and the voice that brought archaeology into the narratives of Charleston’s history. Zierden has embraced a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, which transformed how archaeologists and historians understand the history of this region. She is perhaps best known for her investigations of Charleston’s urban landscape; work that shaped the purpose and method of urban archaeology and was indispensable in transforming the archaeology of urban places to a core concern of our discipline. As a colleague, mentor, curator, author, and dirt archaeologist for over three decades, Martha Zierden has compiled a record of achievement that has few equals. Papers presented here focus on her past, present, and future contributions to Lowcountry Studies.
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Charleston •
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Chronology •
Colonoware •
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Urban Archaeology •
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Religious Site
Geographic Keywords
South Carolina Lowcountry •
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American Southeast •
Southeastern United States •
South Carolina •
South Carolina/US Southeast •
Lowcountry of South Carolina
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Applying Digital Image Analysis to the Study of Colonoware at Late 17th- and Early 18th-Century Sites in the Lowcountry (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Past research into Colonoware assemblages across the Lowcountry has documented a high degree of variation in attributes including temper particle size, method of manufacture, vessel shape, and surface treatment. Building upon this work, we present new quantitative techniques...
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Charleston’s Walled City Project: Collaboration and Collegiality with Martha Zierden (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Charleston’s Walled City Task Force was established in 2005 by then mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr. The overall mission of the group is to research, identify, protect, and interpret the remains of the only English walled city built in America (1690s-1730s). From the beginning,...
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The Emergence and Evolution of Charleston's Antebellum Economy (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We approach the emergence and evolution of Charleston (South Carolina) from the perspective of landscape modifications associated with fires, livestock, commodity production, and cultural dynamics by exploring two distinct nodes in the colonial economy: urban Charleston and...
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From Kitchen to Dwelling: An Evolving Urban African American Landscape at the College of Charleston (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Spring 2021, faculty and students executed a Phase III data recovery on the College of Charleston of campus in preparation for the installation of a United States Department of Energy supported solar pavilion. Recovered artifacts date as far back as the 1720s while...
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Mosquitoes, Landscapes, Ruins, and Artifacts: The Evolution of the Peachtree Plantation Rice Culture Landscape (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Situated on 481 acres on the South Santee River near McClellanville, South Carolina, an abandoned rice culture landscape lay almost forgotten, waiting patiently for its stories to be told. Preservation students began systematic documentation of the plantation main house ruin...
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(Re)building the 87 Church Street Chronology: Archaeological Legacies and Telling Time in Urban Charleston (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. 87 Church Street, an urban townlot in Charleston, SC and the site of The Heyward-Washington House, has been the subject of a series of excavations since the 1970s. This has resulted in an expansive legacy collection and a foundational dataset for numerous studies of...
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"The Site Was Similar to Others in the City in That it Produced the Unexpected" Excavations at the IAAM Site on Gadsden’s Wharf (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations at the IAAM Site on the former Gadsden’s Wharf exposed elements of a 1790s storehouse and a mid-19th century East Point Rice Mill identified during historic research and earlier test excavations. Excavation of a privy associated with the rice mill recovered a...
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The St. Paul’s Parish Parsonage: Early Colonial Life and Community Development on South Carolina’s Frontier (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Occupied from 1707-1715, the St. Paul’s Parish parsonage served as the residence of Anglican missionaries assigned to nearby St. Paul’s Parish Church. Due to its short occupation time and sudden destruction due to a fire, the site offers a snapshot of early colonial life in...