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Artifacts reveal Fort Jackson, SC history

People bivouacked at Fort Jackson before the U.S. Army took over the property.

Long before.

The most extensive archaeological dig ever at the fort has uncovered evidence of human camps up to 9,000 years old.

The dig site and some of the more impressive artifacts uncovered will be on display to the public today.

The findings aren't stunning - artifacts from that period are common throughout the state. But until recent years, archaeologists believed concentrations of artifacts from the Archaic period were likely only along major waterways. The Fort Jackson site is on sandy uplands, several miles from the Wateree River and even farther from the Broad.

"You were not supposed to find stuff like this in the sand hills," said Chuck Cantley, archaeologist with the S.C. Department of Archives and History....
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