Paleoindian Research in North Carolina I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. Department of Anthropology East Carolina University Abstract: For the most part, North Carolina has lagged behind other Southeastern states with regard to Paleoindian studies. Recently, efforts have been made to enhance North Carolina's role in these endeavors by gathering new data as well as synthesizing and interpreting existing evidence with regards to 1) a study of over 200 fluted points in the state addressing problems related to typological issues, geographic distributions, and patterns of raw material use and 2) conducting the first comprehensive analysis of the Pasquotank site (31PK1), the only known Paleoindian assemblage in the state. To date the results suggest that while some NC fluted points resemble recognizable cultural-historical types such as Clovis, Cumberland, and Redstone, the majority of fluted points vary morphologically from most existing type definitions. Furthermore, point distributions suggest occupations centered in the Piedmont/Fall Line and Mountain regions, but the occupation of the latter appears unrelated to the former. This research also highlights the important role that private collections can play in NC archaeology. I. Randolph Daniel I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at East Carolina University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. His research interests include chipped stone technologies and the cultural adaptations of late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherers. Publications related to that research have appeared in two books, several book chapters, and in journals including American Antiquity, Current Research in the Pleistocene, and Southern Indian Studies. In 1999 he received the C.B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology by a Young Scholar in Southeastern Studies by the Lower Mississippi Survey & Peabody Museum, Harvard.