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For the last two years, University of North Georgia archaeology field school students, under the direction of Dr. Kendy Altizer and colleagues, have conducted shovel test surveys in two areas between the North and South Santee River branches in Georgetown County. In consultation with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Santee Coastal Reserve, this work is the first of its kind between the rivers in the Santee Delta and is part of The Santee Delta Project, which aims to systematically survey and document the cultural resources of the Santee Delta before it is lost to rising waters. Dr. Altizer will present the results of two years of fieldwork with her students, showing what they found and didn’t find between the rivers.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Kendy Altizer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega Campus, where she teaches courses in Anthropology and Archaeology. Her research concentration is historical archaeology with a focus in plantation archaeology, Southeastern archaeology, cultural landscapes, African enslaved lifeways, the effects of colonialism, rice culture, climate change, and geospatial analysis. Her field work is located in the South Carolina Lowcountry where she focuses predominantly on plantation landscapes. She utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to her research, combining archival evidence, archaeology, remote sensing, and geospatial techniques to understand how plantations evolve over time. She currently collaborates with other scholars interested in systematically documenting the Santee Delta, before its sensitive cultural resources are lost to the effects of rising water. She invites students to contribute to this research through her courses as well as an annual field school that she teaches at UNG.
When she is not in the field or teaching on campus, I enjoy spending time renovating my 1970s ranch house in the Blue Ridge Mountains with my partner Mike.