Heritage at Risk Research as Part of the Archaeology Internship Program at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Archaeology team has provided public outreach opportunities in the field for over two decades, but it was not until 2014 that the SCDNR Archaeology Internship Program was established. Over the last seven years, the program has grown from accepting one intern per term (fall, spring, summer) to accepting up to 20 interns during the summer 2021 term. While interns (rising high school juniors to PhD candidates) are provided with opportunities to gain a greater understanding of the diverse field of archaeology and develop skills that are transferable beyond the field of archaeology; much of their time is spent processing artifacts from heritage at risks sites and developing their own focused research on those sites with the guidance of the SCDNR Archaeology team.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology