Upcoming Program: “Marine Archaeology: South Carolina Style.”

Please join us  on Tuesday, May 25, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Charleston County Public Library. Maritime archaeologist Ashley Deming and author and archaeological technician Carl Naylor will host “Maritime Archaeology: South Carolina Style”.  Deming, who holds a master’s degree in maritime archaeology from the University of Bristol, is a member of the Maritime Research Division at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA), a research arm of the University of South Carolina, where she manages the Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program (SDAMP). Naylor, whose book The day the johnboat went up the mountain: Stories from my twenty years in South Carolina maritime archaeology was recently published by the University of South Carolina Press, is also a member of SCIAA’s Maritime Research Division working with the Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program (SDAMP). The presentation will feature the educational programs offered by SDAMP as well as highlight some of their many archaeological projects. Artifacts found in South Carolina waters will also be shown and discussed. (taken from program flyers.)