The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden

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.