Archaeological Testing of Six Sites on Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Archaeological Testing of Six Sites on Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 122

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This study discusses testing conducted in January 1988 for the Town of Hilton Head Island and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History as part of a National Park Service Historic Preservation Grant. Sites included Jenkins Island and Fairfield plantations, the slave row and a standing industrial structure associated with Cotton Hope Plantation, a prehistoric shell midden and a site containing both prehistoric and historic components (38BU323/1149, 38BU830, 38BU832, 38BU96, 38BU90, 38BU1166, and 38BU871). All of these sites are recommended as eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.

Household Chores and Household Choices
Household Chores and Household Choices

Author: Kerri S. Barile

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2004-06-25

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0817350985

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Discusses the concepts of “home,” “house,” and “household” in past societies Because archaeology seeks to understand past societies, the concepts of "home," "house," and "household" are important. Yet they can be the most elusive of ideas. Are they the space occupied by a nuclear family or by an extended one? Is it a built structure or the sum of its contents? Is it a shelter against the elements, a gendered space, or an ephemeral place tied to emotion? We somehow believe that the household is a basic unit of culture but have failed to develop a theory for understanding the diversity of households in the historic (and prehistoric) periods. In an effort to clarify these questions, this volume examines a broad range of households—a Spanish colonial rancho along the Rio Grande, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Tennessee, plantations in South Carolina and the Bahamas, a Colorado coal camp, a frontier Arkansas farm, a Freedman's Town eventually swallowed by Dallas, and plantations across the South—to define and theorize domestic space. The essays devolve from many disciplines, but all approach households from an archaeological perspective, looking at landscape analysis, excavations, reanalyzed collections, or archival records. Together, the essays present a body of knowledge that takes the identification, analysis, and interpretation of households far beyond current conceptions.

Archaeological Excavations at 38BU96, a Portion of Cotton Hope Plantation, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina
Archaeological Excavations at 38BU96, a Portion of Cotton Hope Plantation, Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina

Author: Debi Hacker

Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : Chicora Foundation

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 176

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"The investigations reveal the changing role of the site through time. Originally a domestic slave settlement in the late eighteenth century, by the nineteenth century the site became a focus of cottage or other specialized activities. This functional change is observed in the orientation of structures, their construction, the site's relationship to the total plantation complex, and the artifacts present at the site."--Abstract, p. iii

Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island
Captain William Hilton and the Founding of Hilton Head Island

Author: Dwayne W. Pickett

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467141917

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Author Dwayne W. Pickett details the life of William Hilton, his exploration of the Carolina coast and the founding of an iconic island. Behind the pristine beaches and world renown of Hilton Head Island lies a history that dates back to the early exploration of the nation. In 1663, William Hilton, a mariner born in England, was hired by a group in Barbados to find new lands for them to settle. Hilton led an exploration of the Port Royal Sound area, where he named a high bluff of land Hiltons Head as a navigational marker for future sailors. The island began as a sparsely populated area on the fringe of English settlement in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when it was called Trench's Island on some maps.

The Yamasee Indians
The Yamasee Indians

Author: Denise I. Bossy

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1496212274

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2019 William L. Proctor Award from the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute The Yamasee Indians are best known for their involvement in the Indian slave trade and the eighteenth-century war (1715-54) that took their name. Yet, their significance in colonial history is far larger than that. Denise I. Bossy brings together archaeologists of South Carolina and Florida with historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina for the first time to answer elusive questions about the Yamasees' identity, history, and fate. Until now scholarly works have rarely focused on the Yamasees themselves. In southern history, the Yamasees appear only sporadically outside of slave raiding or the Yamasee War. Their culture and political structures, the complexities of their many migrations, their kinship networks, and their survival remain largely uninvestigated. The Yamasees' relative obscurity in scholarship is partly a result of their geographic mobility. Reconstructing their past has posed a real challenge in light of their many, often overlapping, migrations. In addition, the campaigns waged by the British (and the Americans after them) in order to erase the Yamasees from the South forced Yamasee survivors to camouflage bit by bit their identities. The Yamasee Indians recovers the complex history of these peoples. In this critically important new volume, historians and archaeologists weave together the fractured narratives of the Yamasees through probing questions about their mobility, identity, and networks.