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Natalie Adams received her master’s degree in the Public Service Archaeology program at the University of South Carolina. She has been extremely active in the plantation archaeology of the Carolinas, having worked on a number of excavations at plantation sites, primarily in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Ms. Adams serves as the branch manager of the New South Associates of¤ce in Columbia, South Carolina. Ronald W. Anthony received his master’s degree in anthropology through the University of South Carolina in 1989. Originally trained in southeastern prehistoric archaeology, his research interests since the late 1970s have focused on plantation archaeology, particularly that of slave communities. He has been a staff archaeologist at The Charleston Museum since 1989 and an adjunct professor at the College of Charleston since 1990, previous to which he worked for twelve years in cultural resource management archaeology . Monica L. Beck received her master’s degree in anthropology with a graduate certi¤cate in museum management from the University of South Carolina . She is the director of research and interpretation for the Sea Island Historical Society, where she focuses on excavation and interpreting the colonial and antebellum sea island cotton plantations near Charleston, South Carolina. Her research interests include landscape and spatial studies and African American culture. David Colin Crass is the State Archaeologist for Georgia. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Southern Methodist University. He has contributed articles to Historical Archaeology and other journals and is the Contributors co-editor of The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (with Martha Zierden, Steven D. Smith, and Richard D. Brooks, University of Tennessee Press, 1998). Chester B. DePratter received his master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Georgia and is a research professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina. He has conducted extensive ethnohistorical and archaeological research on the contact period in the southeastern United States. He is co-director of the Santa Elena Project. Daniel T. Elliott is a native Georgian, who graduated in 1980 with a master ’s degree in anthropology from the University of Georgia and has been employed as a professional archaeologist by federal and state agencies, private universities, and numerous cultural resource management companies. His twenty-three years of experience in archaeological ¤eldwork, primarily in the southeastern United States, and reports on the same, give him a unique perspective on multiethnic enclaves that dotted the southern landscape in historical times. His colonial-era research began in 1983 with the recognition of the Huguenot settlers in the “French Santee” and has culminated with his (and Rita Elliott’s) dedicated study of Ebenezer on the Savannah River. Rita Folse Elliott received her master’s degree in maritime history and underwater research from East Carolina University in 1988. She has conducted archaeological research and public archaeological programming in the public and private sector for the past sixteen years. Ms. Elliott is education coordinator for the nonpro¤t LAMAR Institute, immediate past president of The Society for Georgia Archaeology, and Georgia education coordinator for the Society for American Archaeology. Tammy Forehand is a research archaeologist and curator at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology. She received her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Georgia Southern University. She is the author and co-author of numerous articles and monographs on the southern colonial backcountry. William Green has a master’s degree from the University of South Carolina and is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) at the State University of New York at Albany. He has over thirteen years’ experience in the archaeology and ethnohistory of the eastern United States, with specialties 268 / Contributors in protohistoric and early historic Native American archaeology, cultural resource management, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Mr. Green is currently employed as a program manager for TRC-Garrow in Columbia, South Carolina. Michael O. Hartley is the director of archaeology at Old Salem, Inc., in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He has long experience in colonial and postcolonial historic archaeology of the Carolinas, ranging from earliest European contact to the present. He has worked extensively with the archaeology and history of the Moravian communities in the Winston-Salem area. J. W. (Joe) Joseph received his master’s degree in American civilization and a doctorate in historical archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on colonial and antebellum historic sites throughout the southeastern United States as well as the Caribbean, including work...

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