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Wednesday, June 2,1999 S.C. may h< western civ USC profes Staff Reports A USC archaeologist has discovered prehistoric artifacts that are shattering long-held beliefs about when and where humans first settled in America. Albert Goodyear, associate director for research at the S.C. Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology at USC, has found stone blades and other tools along Savannah River that are thought to be more than 12,000 years old. Qm'nnfic+c Viavo Inner +Vinnc4i+ kyvivi,iuuuj iiutv xvug mvu^im uiui/ the first human settlement in North America was the Clovis culture, which dates back 11,000 to 11,500 years. "I was very skeptical at first," Goodyear said. "I said, 'Why am I finding things I don't believe in?' Within 48 hours, I totally flip-flopped on my beliefs." "This is a wildly exciting time in New World archaeology," institute director Bruce Rippeteau said. "Veiy few have thought that anyone was here before Clovis." Goodyear said he decided to Hicr Hooruar at +V\o Tnmvsr oit nutci/^o Ulg UV/V|/V1 MV UliV Ull/j VUWIUV of Allendale, S.C., after he read about pre-Clovis artifacts discovered in Chile. He said he thought South Carolina would have been a good place to live during the Ice Age because of the relative warmth. Club Mercedes ha MERCEDES continued from page 1 the club for months. USC's faculty senate in February passed a resolution demanding "that the appropriate university and governmental authorities take any and all steps necessary to eliminate immediately the threat posed by the operation of the Club Mercedes to the safety and well-being of the students, faculty and staff of the law school and the university." The resolution came after a shooting in January outside the club that resulted in one death. The shooting occurred at about 1:40 a.m. : Jan. 3, after two individuals were 1 asked to leave the club. The patrons 1 refused to leave, and, after a verbal confrontation with the security staff, 1 thev were escorted outside where 1 the individuals fought with the se- i curity staff. During the altercation, i one of the individuals took out a handgun and fired several shots at < the staff members, killing one man. 1 The man charged with the shoot- ] ing was apprehended February 18. i Student senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Adam i Dawkins said he'd be willing to spon- i sor a resolution in student senate to recommend closing the club once Duse oldest ilization, sor says The findings include hundreds of human-made stone artifacts. "We found microblades, which are tiny, razor-like flint implements," Goodyear said. "They really grabbed our attention because the little blades and other small tools were so different from the tools we had been finding in the top three feet of [the samel soil." Goodyear took the artifacts to an expert at the Smithsonian Institution. "I think it's exciting because I believe this material is possibly the oldest in North America," said Dennis Stanford, chairman of the Smithsonian's department of anthropology. "Based on inferential evidence, the tools were clearly made before Clovis." Dating of the artifacts is impor tant, Goodyear said. It hasn't been possible to determine the exact age of the artifacts by radiocarbon dating because of a lack of old charcoal in the soil. Goodyear said he hopes a technique called thermoluminescence will be successful in determining the age of the artifacts. Distinguished scientists, including those from the Smithsonian Institution and universities from around the country, as well as photographers from the National Geographic Society, inspected the site May 27 and 28. is violent history student senate reconvenes in fall, if fhp nrnhlpms nt fhp plnh rwntin ue. "The city needs to shut that place down," Dawkins said. "We can't risk the students' safety to keep something like that open." The resolution would be sent to President Palms and could be copied to Mayor Coble and other city employees, Dawkins said. Less than a block from Club Mercedes, hundreds of students are living in Douglas and Snowden halls during the summer. Housing Director Gene Luna doesn't think the artivitips at ninh MprrpHps hnvp nr will affect students living in the dorms, though. "I think anytime there is a situation such as what has been happening in and around Club Mercedes that it poses some threat to Dur students," Luna said. "I share Dr. Palms' and the police force's concerns, [but] we have no suggestions that any of the activities that have happened have spilled over into the residence halls." Neither Mercedes Club owners IL. ?_ _ m _ _ l J i_ _ nor me mayor s omce couiu oe reached for comment. CAROLINA NEWS Ml 7/l/J 7 nUUZUs LULL/ JJLLl/UZ* By Candice Hughes F Associated Press b. 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