Quartermaine Archaeology

Ferguson Road Data Recovery (Phase III) -

Quartermaine participated in this mid-17th to mid-19th century plantation site excavation directed by Mona Grunden of TRC-Columbia on James Island near Charleston, South Carolina.  One of the prize recoveries from this site were a number of intact onion bottles probably once containing rum from the English colonies in the West Indies. 

 (photograph courtesy of M. Grunden, TRC-Columbia, 2007)

Brick Factory 1Mb418 Data Recovery

     As of September 17, 2007, Quartermaine and Dr; Elizabeth Farkas are working on a data recovery in Mobile County, Alabama.  It is a private sector project with potential to increase our knowledge of brick production in the southeast during the early twentieth century.  New South Associates is the firm conducting the investigation, under the field direction of Brad Botwick. 

US Gypsum 1Ja642 Data Recovery

      Beginning in October of 2007, Quartermaine began work on a multi-component prehistoric site in Bridgeport, Alabama, this time working with TRC-Solutions Nashville office.   A unique project in the already culturally-rich Tennessee River Valley, some features on the site represent Middle Woodland behaviors that may well be previously undocumented.  An extended ceremonial tradition is represented by several mounds of different types present on the sloping landform just west of the river.  the project is co-field directed by Kelly Hockersmith and Bill Stanyard.