The Ritter and Moorehead 1930s Expedition to Beaufort: An early attempt to map and excavate shell rings and midden sites with John Fisher

Join the Beaufort District Collection and the Archaeological Society of South Carolina - Hilton Head Chapter for this interesting program on early archaeological studies in the Lowcountry, presented by John Fisher. 

Doors open at 1:30 PM.

Speaker Bio: John Fisher Is a Registered Professional Archaeologist who received his B.A. from the University of South Carolina (2013) and his M.A. in The Archaeology of the Arab and Islamic World from University College London (2017) after having served in the U.S. Army. While earning his M.A., he worked on sites from late antiquity and the early Islamic periods in several countries throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Additionally, he has directed and participated in digs across the southeastern USA ranging from the precontact period to the recent historic, with a special interest in conflict archaeology. He is currently the Curator of Archaeology for the Charleston Museum and serves as the director of the Lost Fort of Castle Pinckney Project, alongside Giles Dawkes of UCL, and at the Saint James Parish Church in Goose Creek, South Carolina. He is currently the President of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina.