Clovis in Allendale: The Topper and Big Pine Tree Sites Albert C. Goodyear, Kenn Steffy, Kara Bridgman Sweeney and Anthony Pickering Abstract: From excavations conducted over several seasons at the Topper and Big Pine Tree sites in Allendale County, S.C., strong patterns have emerged that securely identify Clovis lithic technology and its stratigraphic position in the Savannah River Valley. Both sites are quarry related with chert utilization of both upland terrestrial and riverine sources. The Clovis occupations are best defined based on the characteristic Ross County style preform with excurvate blade edges and end thinning and composite fluting. Finished or broken fluted points are rare despite several hundred meters of excavation. Other diagnostic artifacts include macro prismatic blades, small bladelets, end and sidescrapers of the non-hafted type, denticulates, and utilized flakes. The presence of utilized tools, particularly expedient unifaces, denticulates and flakes, suggest habitation life associated with these quarries. At present, like Clovis elsewhere in the Southeast, these sites are our best candidates for habitation sites. Radiocarbon dating thus far has been unsuccessful due to lack of preserved hearths or undisturbed charcoal deposits. OSL dating at Topper indicates an occupation from 13,000-13,500 KA, in line with Clovis chronology elsewhere in North America. Albert C. Goodyear Albert C. Goodyear, Ph.D. Director, Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208. Al Goodyear grew up in Florida where he began observing Paleoindian artifacts dredged up from drowned sites in Tampa Bay. He took is masters degree from the University of Arkansas working with Dan F. Morse on Dalton culture studies, culminating in the publication of the Brand site in 1974. He received his doctorate from Arizona State University in 1976 with dissertation research on Desert Hohokam. As a graduate student he had the opportunity to work with Don Crabtree in his 1972 flintworking field school. He joined the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina in 1974 where he has been an archaeologist in the Research Division. He has spent the last 20 years studying Paleoamerican lithic sites in the central Savannah River Valley in Allendale Co., S.C. His interests include traditional Paleo-Indian studies, lithic technology, the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, and geoarchaeological approaches to Southeastern U.S. archaeology. He is also interested in primitive cooking techniques, especially barbecue. Kenn Steffy Kenn Steffy, Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey, Research Affiliate, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. After a career in the United States Air Force, Kenn Steffy attended the University of South Carolina, receiving his B.A. in anthropology in 1988. In 1997, he joined the Allendale Paleoindian Expedition helping with excavations and analysis. In 1998 he helped excavate the first square that penetrated the deeper preClovis layer at Topper. From 1998-2005 he joined the staff developing the Topper site project, functioning as project manager, lab director, and senior site supervisor (2004). His interests include North American archaeology, lithic technology and replicative studies, ceramics of the Carolinas, and the peopling of the Americas. Kara Bridgman Sweeney Kara Bridgman Sweeney is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, where her research focuses on mapping variation in Early Holocene chipped stone tool types throughout the Southeastern Coastal Plain. After receiving her M.A. in archaeology from University College, Cork, Ireland in 1999, Bridgman Sweeney served as a cultural resource management archaeologist and lithic analyst. She has been involved with several seasons of excavation at the Big Pine Tree and Topper sites, and assisted in laboratory analyses of materials recovered at the Big Pine Tree site. Bridgman Sweeney currently is employed as an instructor of anthropology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. A. D. Pickering Anthony Pickering, Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina. Pickering received his B.A. from Purdue University in 2003 double majoring in psychology and anthropology. He is currently a second year graduate student at the University of South Carolina in the Anthropology program studying prehistoric archaeology. Pickering has been associated with the Allendale Paleoindian Expedition since 2001, supervising excavations since 2002 and presently works as an analyst for the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey studying the lithic materials from the Topper site. His research interests include; lithic technologies, alluvial geoarchaeology, the peopling of the Americas, hunter/gatherer archaeology, the development of human cognition, and, general evolutionary theory.