Life in the Pee Dee
Author : Michael Trinkley
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars
Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,63 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0817320202
Book Description
Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable subdiscipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conflicts involving asymmetric, guerilla, or irregular warfare are largely missing from the historical record. Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces readers to this growing study and to its historic importance. Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of life, which are otherwise lost in time. The case studies offered cover significant events in American and world history, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Indian wars in the Southeast and Southwest, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Prohibition, and World War II. All such examples used here took place at a local or regional level, and several were singular events within a much larger and more complex historic movement. While retained in local memory or tradition, and despite their potential importance, they are poorly, and incompletely addressed in the historic record. Furthermore, these conflicts took place between groups of significantly different cultural and military traditions and capabilities, most taking on a “David vs. Goliath” character, further shaping the definition of asymmetric warfare.
Soil Survey of Florence and Sumter Counties, South Carolina
Author : James J. Pitts
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN :
Book Description
Time Before History
Author : H. Trawick Ward
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807847800
Book Description
Describes the state's prehistory and archaeological discoveries
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Author : Dan F. Morse
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1483260968
Book Description
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley describes an archeological reconstruction of the preceding 11,000 years of an extraordinarily rich environment centered within the largest river system north of the Amazon. This book focuses on the lowlands of the Mississippi Valley from just north of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Organized into 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the territory between the Ohio and Arkansas rivers. This text then attempts to humanize the archeological interpretations by reference to social organization, settlement system, economy, religion, and politics. Other chapters focus on understanding the nature of change through time in the Central Mississippi Valley. This book discusses as well the difference between an old braided stream surface and the younger meander belt system. The final chapter deals with the investigation of prehistoric Indian remains. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists, zoologists, and scientific hobbyists.
Willtown
Author : Martha A. Zierden
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9781880067536
Book Description
Willtown was founded in the late 17th century on the banks of the South Edisto River, but the movement of the Willtown Church in the 1760s to another location marked the demise of the town. Hugh C. Lane Jr. encouraged The Charleston Museum in its research in and around the Willtown area, asking the question, "Why did Willtown fail?" "Our serendipitous discovery of James Stobo's rice plantation a mile from Willtown revealed a site remarkable in its pristine preservation, the clarity of its stratigraphic record, the number and types of artifacts recovered, and in the complexity of its architectural detail."--Introduction, p. 1.
Prominent Families of New York
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Book Description
Mills' Atlas
Author : Robert Mills
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Book Description
This reprint edition of MILLS' ATLAS has an especially prepared history and introduction to these maps as well as considerable history about Robert Mills, the man and architect, prepared be Mr. Gene Waddell, formerly Director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston. These maps, originally 23 29 in size, have been conveniently reduced in size to 11 17 and folded to fit into an exquisitely gold-stamped simulated leather cover for book shelf or coffee table. The Districts for which maps are included are: Abbeville, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Chesterfield, Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlborough, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pendleton, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg and York.
Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Author : Albert C. Goodyear
Publisher : University of Florida Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781683402480
Book Description
Bringing together major archaeological research projects from Virginia to Alabama, this volume explores the rich prehistory of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Contributors consider how the region's warm weather, abundant water, and geography have long been optimal for the habitation of people beginning 50,000 years ago. They highlight demographic changes and cultural connections across this wide span of time and space.New data are provided here for many sites, including evidence for human settlement before the Clovis period at the famous Topper site in South Carolina. Contributors track the progression of sea level rise that gradually submerged shorelines and landscapes, and they discuss the possibility of a comet collision that triggered the Younger Dryas cold reversion and contributed to the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna like mastodons and mammoths. Essays also examine the various stone materials used by prehistoric foragers, the location of chert quarries, and the details stone tools reveal about social interaction and mobility.This volume synthesizes more than fifty years of research and addresses many of today's controversial questions in the archaeology of the early Southeast, such as the sudden demise of the Clovis technoculture and the recognition of the mysterious "Middle Paleoindian" period.Contributors: Robert J. Austin | Mark J. Brooks | Christopher R. Moore | I Randolph Daniel | Joseph E. Wilkinson | Joseph Schuldenrein | Allen West | David K. Thulman | James K. Feathers | Terry E. Barbour II | Douglas Sain | Thomas A. Jennings | Albert C. Goodyear | Andrew H. Ivester | Malcolm A. LeCompte | Adam M. Burke | James S. Dunbar | Jon Endonino | Richard Estabrook | H. Blaine Ensor | Victor Adedeji | Douglas J. Kennett | Ashley M. Smallwood | Kara Bridgman Sweeney | Sam Upchurch | James P. Kennett | Wendy S. Wolbach | M. Scott Harris | Ted Bunch | David G. Anderson | C. Andrew Hemmings | James. M. Adovasio
Guns of the Pee Dee
Author : Ted L. Gragg
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979457234
Book Description
Guns of the Pee Dee is a fantastic spell-binding tale woven between a group of Civil War hobbyists searching for a sunken Confederate warship and the last days of a Confederate Naval Unit in South Carolina at the end of the American Civil War. The title gives the reader a clue...The missing cannons from the Confederate Warship have puzzled the U.S. Navy, archaeologists, and historians for over a century as to their whereabouts. Finally the guns have been found by the CSS Pee Dee Research and Recovery Team. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' takes the reader along on the exploratory search along the banks of South Carolina's legendary Great Pee Dee River and into its dark, swirling, and muddy waters with the intrepid divers of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team as they search the river's bottom for the missing ordnance of the Confederate States Navy's vessel CSS Peedee. 'Guns of the Pee Dee' is an historical adventure. The reader experiences the building and launching of one of the Confederate Navy's warships that is destined to escape to sea and join the ranks of the CSS Alabama and the CSS Shenandoah. The war ends badly for the Confederacy and the ship CSS Peedee. But 150 years later history comes to life with the search for the missing vessel and her guns. History awaits, adventure is in the next page...and the next...until the quest reaches its conclusion. It's a page burner. Don your mask, put on your gear, and step back into time along with the members of the CSS Peedee Research and Recovery Team....the Quest begins.
