Stanley South Explained

Stanley A. South
Birth Name:Stanley Austin South
Birth Date:2 February 1928
Birth Place:Boone, North Carolina, U.S.
Death Place:Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Fields:Archaeology
Thesis Title:A Study of the Prehistory of the Roanoke Rapids Basin
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Thesis Year:1959
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Academic Advisors:Joffre L. Coe
Known For:Historical archaeology
Mean Ceramic Dating
Artifact Patterning Analysis
Awards:J. C. Harrington Award (1987)
Order of the Palmetto (1999)[1]
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Stanley A. South (February 2, 1928 - March 20, 2016)[2] was an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific endeavor.[3] Additionally, South participated in the excavation and research of a number of historic sites throughout North and South Carolina, including Town Creek Indian Mound, Charles Towne Landing (SC), Brunswick Town, North Carolina, Bethabara Historic District (the first Moravian settlement in what is now Winston-Salem, NC), the John Bartlam site at Cain Hoy (SC), and Santa Elena (near Beaufort, SC), as well as Fort Dobbs and the Fayetteville Arsenal.[4]

Stanley South was an important pioneer of the theoretical background of Historical archaeology.

He first worked as state archaeologist in North Carolina and became 1969 professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology / University of South Carolina.

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  1. Web site: Archaeologist who made first excavations at Bethabara dead at age 88. Melissa, Winston-Salem Journal. Hall. 1 March 2018.
  2. Web site: Dr. Stanley South, who rediscovered the ruins of Brunswick Town, dies. 1 March 2018.
  3. Book: Orser, Charles E. . Race and practice in archaeological interpretation . 14 . 2004 . . 978-0-8122-3750-4 .
  4. Stanley A. South, An Archaeological Evolution (Springer, 2005), pp. 191-92