Carl Steen is an archaeologist working in the Southeastern United States. He is president of a small non-profit corporation, the Diachronic Research Foundation, that he formed with fellow University of South Carolina graduate Christopher Judge in 1991. Mr. Steen was born in Charleston, SC on January 23, 1956 and grew up in Goose Creek, SC. He attended the College of Charleston, The University of South Carolina, and William and Mary. His research interests include historic and prehistoric ceramics, historical archeology, and long term land use history.