The Island Packet

4,000-year-old Sea Pines shell ring dig begins next week. This time might be the last

The 4,000-year-old Indian shell ring buried in Sea Pines will be excavated for the third time by researchers from Binghamton University beginning Monday — but this dig might be their last. It also ...
Post and Courier

Last-ditch digs make new finds at endangered and collapsing South Carolina coastal shell mound

At Edisto Island, an irreplaceable past is about to vanish. Tides are sweeping away the prehistoric shell mound on Scott Creek faster than ever seen before in its 4,000 years of existence. It might ...
WCBD

Lowcountry archaeology: a race against erosion

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) – Storms, rising sea levels, and the erosion that accompany them will threaten and destroy at least 19,000 archaeological sites in the southeast in the near future, ...
The State

What’s buried in Sea Pines and more than 4,000 years old? Find out who’s digging for answers

Binghamton University archaeology students Dylan Davis and Chelsea Cunico remove sand used to cover the site of last year's dig at the center of the Native American shell ring in the Sea Pines Forest ...
insider.si.edu

The cultural dynamics of shell-matrix sites / [edited by] Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Sabine Eggers, Meghan Burchell, and Daniela Klokler

Introduction: Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites : Diverse Perspectives on Biological Remains from Shell Mounds and Shell Middens / Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Daniela Klokler, ...