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Every time a field is graded for a road, every time a beach is bulldozed for condominium foundations, every time a river is dredged or a dock piling is punched, every time a single home is built--something from the story of our past may be lost. Sometimes it may only be a word or two, others a paragraph or worse still, sometimes an entire page is cast away, and the knowledge it contains is lost forever.
The choices for the Institute are clear here. A determined effort must be made to enlist the help researchers need to expand their vital work to save our State's archaeological heritage. To do this, SCIAA has formed The Archaeological Research Trust Fund. This organization provides the opportunity for the private sector to make more meaningful contributions to archaeological research and the effort to communicate the results to the public.
How can this be done? SCIAA wants to accomplish this by a process of involvement. SCIAA wants to connect its supporters with the work SCIAA does in order to provide a real sense of involvement in this fascinating and important work. In recent years, SCIAA has probed the story of early shipping beneath the waters of the Black River, revealed facets of life and labor on southern plantations, written new pages in the history of early Spanish explorations and settlements in the State, begun to document the origins of tribes such as the Yemassee and even drawn aside the darkest veil of all--the l4,000 years that separate us from the 'first Carolinians,' Paleo-Indians who hunted the now extinct mammoth.
You can be a part of this work, this revelation, this effort to save and interpret the story of our heritage. Your contributions will be used to broadly support the work of research and education. By contacting The Archaeological Research Trust Fund, you can learn of specific archaeological and educational projects you, or your company or your organization can support. Further specific information will be sent to you.
Call or Write:
The Archaeological Research Trust
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
1321 Pendleton Street
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-8170, 734-0567, or 799-1963
(803) 254-1338 (FAX)
How The Archaeological Research Trust Works
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