An investigation of the earliest widespread human occupation of North America in the Southeast, known as Clovis culture, is the subject of a four-day conference in Columbia Oct. 26–29 co-sponsored by the USC College of Arts and Sciences, the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at USC and four other co-sponsors.
The conference, “Clovis in the Southeast: Technology, Time, and Space,” is the first of its kind convened specifically to investigate Clovis culture in the Southeast and the implications for its origins, according to Albert Goodyear, an archaeologist with the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The conference is being held in collaboration with the scientific community and the public involving privately and publicly owned Paleoindian artifact collections of scientific importance and is intended as an educational forum for all attendees.
The conference will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in the Vista and will consist of programs, exhibits, and scientific presentations. It will conclude with a tour bus trip to South Carolina’s Big Pine Tree and Topper archaeological sites, both of which had a substantial pre-Clovis occupation.
Conference co-sponsors are the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey, the Smithsonian Institution, the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee.
For more information or to register for the conference, visit clovisinthesoutheast.net/. Albert Goodyear can be reached at 7-8170.
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