NRHP Reference # 70000564 Added to NRHP 10 November 1970 | Area 8,000 m² Nearest city Hilton Head Island | |
MPS Historic Resources of the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Period Shell Rings of South Carolina, ca. 1,000-2,200 years B.C. | ||
Skull Creek is a historic archeological site located at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The site includes two of 20 or more prehistoric Indian shell middens in a ring shape located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. It are believed to date early in the second millennium BC, and 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.
It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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Skull Creek (Beaufort County, South Carolina) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA