Glass Beads, Pearlware, and Red Fliming: Exploring MAterial Cultural of the South Carolina Inland Lowcountry Settlement Indians

Summary

Artifacts from the Laurel Hill Plantation site in southern Dorchester County, South Carolina, suggest an early 19th -century Settlement Indian occupation. These indigenous groups were forced to adapt and utilize new strategies to cope with the onslaught of European colonization. They found themselves betwixt and between political economies marred by enslavement and changing cultural and geographic realities, obscuring traditional practices. We explore these connections through a native-produced low-fired earthenware assemblage, a decorated pearlware collection, and a late 17th to early 18th -century glass bead sample, possibly representing multi-generational, passed-down heirloom objects serving as

visual cues of remembrance.

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• Brockington and Associates, Inc.

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