THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SEIBELS KITCHEN, COLUMBIA SC
Future Direction
In the summer of 2005, the Historic Columbia Foundation in collaboration with the University of South Carolina Anthropology department, will continue work on the material culture gained from the archaeological investigations from the summers of 2003-2004. More analysis of the the material culture is needed in order to draw larger conclusions about the human behavior located at the site.
More research and archaeological investigations are planned in the future on other properties in Columbia that date to around the same time periods. It is the hope of Historic Columbia and USC anthropologists that by investigating these individual sites along with putting them into a proper context or history, they may be able to extract relationships between the sites, which may indicate how people behaved in relationship to each other throughout the history of Columbia SC.
By investigating these sites, archaeologists and historians will be able to shed some light onto the past African American community. Columbia was a diverse population with smaller communities with in that population. People were free, enslaved, African American, Euro-American, rich and poor. This diverse population would have had diverse relationships. It is the evaluation of these relationships in which we see future work. By evaluating these past behaviors and relationships, we can use the information to evaluate how the local community has or has not changed. It will give the researchers insights into human behavior in the past and in the present.
If you are interested in helping, please feel free to contacting the archaeologists and historians at USC and Historic Columbia.