Skull Creek (Beaufort County, South Carolina)
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Skull Creek is a historic
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located at
Hilton Head Island Hilton Head Island, often referred to as simply Hilton Head, is a Lowcountry resort town and barrier island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is northeast of Savannah, Georgia (as the crow flies), and southwest of Charlesto ...
,
Beaufort County, South Carolina Beaufort County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 187,117. Its county seat is Beaufort and its largest community is Hilton Head Island. Beaufort County is part of the Hilton Hea ...
. It was listed in the
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in 1970. The site includes two of 20 or more prehistoric Native American shell
midden A midden is an old dump for domestic waste. It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human oc ...
s in a ring shape located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of
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. It probably dates from early in the second millennium BC, and is likely to contain some of the earliest pottery known in North America. The Skull Creek rings are the only known example of a later ring superimposed over an earlier one.


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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Buildings and structures in Beaufort County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Beaufort County, South Carolina Shell rings {{US-archaeology-stub