A Summary of Plantation Archaeology on Sapelo Island, Georgia (1974-2021)

The purpose of this paper is to lower the bar of entry for locals, students, and scholars interested in learning more of the plantation-era historical archaeology on Sapelo Island, Georgia, USA. We present a summary and synthesis of all known information about plantation archaeology on the island. On Sapelo Island, we continue to define the fundamental questions that count in historical archaeology—where were people living, for how long, and how can archaeologists accurately interpret nuance of living through deposits of industrial material culture?