Directions: Your job is to decide how to design the best survey strategy for the portion of land you are assigned and with the budget you are provided and the remains you are tasked to find.

Budget: $15,000 Expenses for survey methods: Pedestrian survey of 50x50 grid: $500 Shovel test of 50x50 grid: $800 GPR or Magnetometry survey of 50x50 grid: $1,000

Survey Areas: 1: Horseshoe (western end) 200 x 400 Remains from 19th-century enslaved persons living quarters and daily lives 2: Horseshoe (eastern end) 200 x 400 Remains from a 15th-century Congaree Native American settlement 3: Gibbes Green 200 x 400 Remains from the 18th-century English settlement 4: State House green (east side) 300x 400 Remains from Civil War battle and post-war rebuilding 5: State House green (west side) 200 x 500 Remains from Archaic Period (~5000 BCE) Native American use of the uplands around the Congaree River 6: Sims-McClintock-Wade Hampton green 200 x 300 Remains from early to mid-20th century student life Questions: answer in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed and explain your answers when asked to do so.

1. 1 pt: By either visiting the location or by using Google maps, list the characteristics of your survey area. Be specific and include environmental features (i.e. trees, pond, grassy field, etc.) and human disturbances (i.e. buildings, parking lots, sidewalks, etc.).

2. 1 pt: Will the age of remains you are supposed to find (e.g. 100-300 years old vs. 1000s of years old) impact your survey methods? Explain your answer.

3. 1 pt: What is your sample fraction? Explain how you calculated it?

4. 2 pt: What is your sampling strategy (or strategies)? Explain.

5. 2 pt: What surveying method(s) are you going to use? Explain

6. 3 pts: Draw a grid on your aerial photograph and accurately show your sampling strategy (i.e. number, size, placement of grids, and type of survey strategy). Be sure to draw your grids to scale.