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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...