Steven D. Smith

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Steven D. Smith is a Research Professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He has over 40 years’ experience in historical archaeology, largely focused on military sites of the American Revolution in the South and has conducted many excavations, including Parker’s Ferry, Black Mingo, Snow’s Island, and Camden. He is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, including Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare (2019), Leading Like the Swamp Fox: The Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion, (2022), and The Battles of Fort Watson and Fort Motte, 1781 (2024).