HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (WTOC) - A research team all the way from upstate New York is wrapping up a major archaeological dig Friday on Hilton Head Island. The team has spent the past month excavating a ...

Layers of history: a Native American shell ring such as Greens Shell Enclosure located on Hilton Head Island is composed layer upon layer of oyster shells and other debris formed over ages of ...

Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a new ...

For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, ...

DAMARISCOTTA, Maine — Alice Kelley stood on the bank of a tidal river, next to a grassy bluff dotted with apple trees. This is not just a scenic spot: Hidden beneath the grass is a massive pile of ...

Biologists dumped a dozen boatloads of oyster shells into the shallow waters off Point San Quentin over the weekend, hoping the castoffs will seed the comeback of native oysters that once flourished ...