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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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"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
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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."
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