Reconstructing the Reconstructed: Digitally Recreating 1,900-Year-Old Pottery Designs
Archaeologists study clues found in the designs of artifacts, just like a fingerprint, to learn more about their creators.
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3D Technology in the Field of Archaeology
Technology in the field of archaeology is expanding to include virtual reality, offering 3D digital views of cultural heritage artifacts and locations.
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Saving Bald Rock
Upstate Friends group partners with SCDNR to clean up iconic mountain heritage preserve Article by Greg Lucas When visitors come to Bald Rock Heritage Preserve, their breath is taken…
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SCDNR Fisheries Intern Learns How to Raise and Stock Trout
SCDNR intern Sarah Armstrong shares how her interest in fisheries genetic research led to a summer job at the Walhalla State Fish Hatchery in Mountain Rest, where she helped raise thousands of brown, brook and rainbow trout on a day-to-day basis.
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Preparing Vessels for a Traveling Exhibit
During the summer of 2021, S.C. Department of Natural Resources archaeology interns helped to prepare an exciting exhibit of more than three hundred pottery vessels representing different periods in South Carolina history. The exhibit explores the tradition, function and history of these handmade treasures.
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Reconstructing Pottery from the Pockoy Island Shell Rings
Ceramic artifacts are highly valued by archaeologists because they can tell us a great deal about past peoples. Learn how archaeologists at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources use digital modeling to create a more precise image of the size and shape of pottery vessels used by native Americans thousands of years ago.
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Call your shots…
More than 50,000 turkey hunters take to the woods each spring in South Carolina to hunt wild turkeys. [SCDNR photo] Beginning this season, turkey hunters in S.C. will be able…
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A river, and lots of helicopter-stocked trout, runs through it
A long-time conservation partnership keeps remote parts of the Chattooga River in South Carolina’s beautiful Upstate region a place where trout anglers return to time and again. Text by Greg…
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Paradise Found
Lake Hartwell blog for Lakes of the Decade campaign Paradise Found What makes the S.C. Upstate’s Lake Hartwell so awesome? Just ask someone who’s had a front row view of…
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#MakingItLast: The South Carolina Bobwhite Initiative
Bobwhite quail. [SCDNR photo] Learn what you can do to help in the effort to restore habitat for quail and other grassland birds. By Michael Hook and Kristin Coulter If…
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