The Swag Site (38AL137): Yet Another Paleoindian Site at the Allendale Quarries in South Carolina

Summary

The Swag Site (38AL137) was recorded during the initial survey of the Allendale chert quarries by Albert Goodyear and Tommy Charles in 1984. While subsequent work focused on the Topper and Big Pine Tree sites, the Swag site was overlooked until a systematic survey conducted in 2015 identified several localities with buried archaeological deposits. In May 2016 and March 2017, further excavations at the Swag Site produced artifacts that are comparable to Clovis components at Topper, Carson-Conn-Short in Tennessee, and the Adams site in Kentucky. This paper presents the results of mass, refit, and spatial analyses of the lithic debitage in order to assess the impact of post-depositional processes on the archaeological deposits at the site.

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The Swag Site (38AL137): Yet Another Paleoindian Site at the Allendale Quarries in South Carolina. D. Shane Miller, Cody Oscarson, Hunter Saunders, Jesse Tune, Derek Anderson. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444214)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 21647