The Ring People
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12,000 years ago, the beach was 70 miles from Charleston. Visit the modern-day salt marsh - one of the most important ecosystems on the planet.Resources on archaeology on Knowitall.org.
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12,000 years ago, the beach was 70 miles from Charleston. Visit the modern-day salt marsh - one of the most important ecosystems on the planet.Video
Scientists discover the tools, pottery and decorative items left behind forty centuries ago.Video
The center of these shell rings, called plazas, hold important clues to how these rings were used.Video
Scientists at the University of Georgia’s Center for Applied Isotope Study use an accelerator mass spectrometer to count Carbon-14 isotopes to determine the age of ancient material.Video
Archaeologists preserve an excavation in three dimensions using a new photographic technique.Video
The shifting sands of the barrier island hold one of the most important ecosystems on the planet.Video
An experimental archaeologist recreates the tools used by indigenous Americans in the Late Archaic period.Video
Archaeologists survey an early Spanish settlement on Parris Island using ground penetrating radar, magnetometry and resistivity.Video
An aerial 3D laser scanning system detects two mysterious circles on Pockoy Island.Video
4,00 thousand years ago an ancient device, the atlatl, propelled spears with great accuracy and speed.