The Island Packet

Bring the bug spray! Best ways to access the Sea Pines Shell Ring for visitors’ day later this month

In this map available online, several entrances to the Sea Pines Forest Preserve are shown. The Indian Shell Ring is located in the southwestern portion of the map, visible by a black dot. Sea Pines ...
Post and Courier

Half of prehistoric SC site may be claimed by the sea by fall

One of the Pockoy Island shell rings, archaeological sites that researchers have been trying to rapidly catalogue in recent years, may be entirely washed into the ocean by fall. That's according to a ...
The State

What’s buried in Sea Pines and more than 4,000 years old? Find out who’s digging for answers

Binghamton University archaeology students Dylan Davis and Chelsea Cunico remove sand used to cover the site of last year's dig at the center of the Native American shell ring in the Sea Pines Forest ...
The Island Packet

Shell Ring dig uncovers Hilton Head’s ancient past

The Shell Ring excavation currently underway in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve puts Hilton Head Island at the epicenter of research into how Native Americans lived thousands of years ago. While there ...