The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden

after South arrived at SCIAA, in 1972, Leland Ferguson began his own career there, finding in the analysis of colonoware ceramics a point of entry into the experiences of enslaved Africans along the South Carolina coast and their stewardship of rice culture, a principal source of the region's stupendous wealth. 2 Other archaeologists took on some of the broad research questions South and Ferguson pursued, but none perhaps as persistent, or with the longevity, of Martha Zierden at the Charleston Museum. 3 The Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) recognized Martha's contributions to the archaeology of Charleston and its Lowcountry environs at its 2022 annual meeting in Philadelphia, where she received the J. C.