USC Professor Discovers 50,000 Year-Old Artifacts in S.C. It was the summer of 1998, and University of South Carolina archaeologist Al Goodyear had a problem on his hands.
Fourteen years of digging at an ancient chert quarry outside Allendale had begun to bear fruit: At a site called Big Pine Tree, Goodyear was well on his way to establishing that a substantial Clovis population lived here. | 
