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Welcome to Parker annex archeology Center. This is South Carolina Department of Natural Resources first archaeology building.
We're in downtown Columbia on the Bull Street property. This is our first archaeology Center.
It's nine thousand three hundred square
feet
We're standing in the lobby entrance right now soon it'll be turned into our first museum exhibit about the pocky excavation site that we're currently working on.
So let's go for a look.
To my right we have our curation stacks. This is where all the archeological artifacts from all South Carolina Department of Natural Resources work is stored.
In our permanent collections.
Right now we're walking past 38 da 75 that's the cold side. A lot of our volunteers have worked on the cold side over the last 20 years.
Tons of artifacts that we can continue to come back to and research.
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To the left is our conference area and
teaching space.
We do teacher workshops project archeology teacher workshops at least twice a year.
We also host Girl Scout and Boy Scout
programs.
And pass the teaching and curation space is our laboratory space.
We're working on a number of projects including Pocky & Kolbe.
So right here we have a feature from our Pocky excavation.
This is a pottery sherd, a piece of pottery. Pocky dates to about 4,400 years ago.
So about the same time period as the
first great pyramids construction.
And we are currently doing excavations and analysis of Pocky because we are losing it to coastal erosion.
By the year 2024, this archaeological site will be completely gone.
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So now we're upstairs in the work area where most of our offices are the second floor of Parker annex.
What we're walking through right now is the intern workstation and into the library.
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So this is where all of our research material is all of our reference books for doing our research.
In 1910 Parker annex was constructed on the southeast corner of the Bull Street property and it was to house african-american patients, african-american male patients.
In 1926 all african-american patients both male and female were moved to another State Hospital property.
And Parker annex became from 1926 until the early 1970s the tuberculosis ward for white male patients.
So from the 1970s up until about 2013 the building assault to be abandoned it was renovated,
And then we moved in, The Department of Natural Resources archeology team moved in and renovated it for our purposes and this is our home today.
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