Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 1 Context and Interpretation

"The results of archaeological investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660) by personnel with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program are summarized in the following monograph. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the development of the Three Rivers Regional Landfill and Technology Center. Occupied between circa 1807 and 1920, the site, containing the archaeological remains of a planter’s dwelling and houselot, was owned by four generations of the George Bush lineal family. The enslaved residents of Bush Hill plantation raised livestock and produced numerous subsistence crops as well as cotton. To date, Bush Hill is the only antebellum plantation on the Savannah River Site, or in the surrounding middle Savannah River valley, that has been the subject of data recovery excavations. Consequently, the archaeology conducted at the site is significant because it provides important information regarding the material conditions experienced by a 19th-century planter family in the region."

萨凡纳河考古研究项目（Savannah River Archaeological Research Program）人员在布什希尔种植园（遗址编号38AK660）开展的考古调查成果，已于下述专著中予以总结。
布什希尔种植园坐落于美国南卡罗来纳州艾肯县的萨凡纳河场址（Savannah River Site，由美国能源部运营的核研究设施）内，毗邻上三河溪（Upper Three Runs Creek）。为配合三河区域垃圾填埋场与技术中心（Three Rivers Regional Landfill and Technology Center）的开发工程，该遗址于1996至1999年间实施了数据恢复性考古发掘。
该遗址的使用年代约为1807年至1920年，留存有种植园主住宅及其宅地的考古遗迹，曾为乔治·布什直系家族四代人所拥有。布什希尔种植园的被奴役劳工从事畜牧养殖，种植各类自给作物与棉花。
截至目前，布什希尔是萨凡纳河场址及周边中萨凡纳河谷范围内，唯一一处经数据恢复性考古发掘的南北战争前（antebellum）种植园。因此，本次遗址考古工作具有重要学术意义，其为探究该区域19世纪种植园主家庭的物质生活境遇提供了关键实证资料。