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Clay is everything: archaeological analyses of colonial period inland swamp rice embankments

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Abstract

Rice became the market export crop in the early eighteenth century that made South Carolina become an economic and agricultural powerhouse after many exotic tropical cultivars failed (Carney and Porcher 1993, Carney 1996, 2001, Littlefield 1981, Fields-Black 2008).

Parent Publication

Citation

Agha, Andrew. 2016. Clay is everything: archaeological analyses of colonial period inland swamp rice embankments. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical  Report  SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 3 p.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/50943