The Past And Future Impact Of The American Battlefield Protection Program On Conflict Archaeology: A South Carolina Perspective
Author(s): Steven D Smith
Year: 2016
Summary
Battlefield, or Conflict Archeology, has made great progess in South Carolina thanks largely to the American Battlefield Protection Program funding and guidance. This paper summarizies numerous successful efforts to identify, delineate, and preserve South Carolina's battlefields. In many cases, these efforts have gone beyond preservation; initiating and investigating research questions that have resulted in important new knowledge. This paper concludes with a few personal observations on the future of conflict archeology and the role of the ABPP from a grateful practitioner.
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The Past And Future Impact Of The American Battlefield Protection Program On Conflict Archaeology: A South Carolina Perspective. Steven D Smith. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434401)
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Keywords
General
conflict archaeology
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South Carolina
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1600-1865
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 149