Mike Coughlan and Don Nelson recently published "Influences of Native American Land Use on the Colonial Euro-American Settlement of the South Carolina Piedmont". 
The article argues that localized prehistoric land use legacies likely helped
structure the long term, landscape- to regional-level ecological inheritances that resulted
from Euro-American settlement.
Open Access: ​https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195036

The UGA Honors Program recently featured a story about HECLab member John McGreevy's work, you can check out their write up here.