- Albert Goodyear
Dr. Albert C. Goodyear III is an archaeologist who is founder and director of the "Allendale PaleoIndian Expedition" in
South Carolina , where he has unearthed controversial evidence that may greatly move back the date of occupation ofNorth America byhuman s to 50,000 years or more before the present. His area of expertise includes theClovis culture which dates back about 13,000 years in North America.Goodyear has been a professor at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, a branch of the
University of South Carolina since 1974. He has abachelors degree from theUniversity of South Florida , a masters from theUniversity of Arkansas , and a PhD fromArizona State University .The
Allendale, South Carolina site, known as the "Topper" site, which has had ongoing excavations for several years, has unearthed many artifacts, as it was a long lasting site of human occupation due to an outcrop ofchert , which was valuable for making stone tools.Goodyear has authored over 100 articles and other publications and is a frequent lecturer on
paleo-Indian archaeology.External links
* [http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/topper.html The Topper site]
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