Paddling Into The Past: Conserving South Carolina’s Oldest Indigenous Watercraft
Author(s): Nicholas J (1,2) DeLong; Gyllian (1,2) Porteous
Year: 2022
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
In August 2020, the WLCC took temporary custody, for the purposes of conservation, of an indigenous dugout canoe that had been illegally recovered from the Cooper River, South Carolina. Through carbon dating, this canoe has been dated to 4170 years old (±60) placing this canoe as the oldest in the state uncovered to date. The canoe is composed of 5 fragments with one major section that comprises a portion of the bow and hull of the watercraft. One of the main goals of the conservation project was to collaborate with Native American Communities in South Carolina. A consultation event was hosted by the WLCC that brought together leaders from eight tribes and communities from across the state to discuss and determine the best treatment approach for the canoe. The goal of this collaboration is to recontextualize this significant artifact by reconnecting it with the descendants of its original makers.
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Paddling Into The Past: Conserving South Carolina’s Oldest Indigenous Watercraft. Nicholas J (1,2) DeLong, Gyllian (1,2) Porteous. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA. 2022 ( tDAR id: 469491)
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Lowcountry, South Carolina
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