pieces made of tuff, however, are strongly suspected to be from the Uwharrie Mountains area of North Carolina. Green tuff outcrops are known from near Ashboro, North Carolina. If some of these are coming from the Uwharries, a distance of 250-350km is indicated. Since non-chert debitage is extremely rare at Topper, all of these pieces were likely carried in and discarded once at the quarry. As such, they may be more informative about where people came from than what they were used for at Topper. We thank the members of the Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition, Clariant Corporation, owners of the Topper site, and Daryl P. Miller for photography. References Cited Daniel, I. Randolph, Jr. 1998 Hardaway Revisited, Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Goodyear, Albert C., D. Shane Miller, and Ashley M. Smallwood 2007 Introducing Clovis at the Topper Site, 38AL23, Allendale County, South Carolina. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. Miller, D. Shane 2007 Site Formation Processes in an Upland Paleoindian Site: The 2005-2007 Topper Firebreak Excavations. Unpublished MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Upchurch, Sam B. 1984 Petrology of Selected Lithic Materials from the South Carolina Coastal Plain. in An Archaeological Survey of Chert Quarries in Western Allendale County, South Carolina, edited by Albert C. Goodyear and Tommy Charles, Appendix A, pp.125-160. Research Manuscript Series 195, S.outh Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
pieces made of tuff, however, are strongly suspected to be from the Uwharrie Mountains area of North Carolina. Green tuff outcrops are known from near Ashboro, North Carolina. If some of these are coming from the Uwharries, a distance of 250-350km is indicated. Since non-chert debitage is extremely rare at Topper, all of these pieces were likely carried in and discarded once at the quarry. As such, they may be more informative about where people came from than what they were used for at Topper. We thank the members of the Allendale Paleoamerican Expedition, Clariant Corporation, owners of the Topper site, and Daryl P. Miller for photography. References Cited Daniel, I. Randolph, Jr. 1998 Hardaway Revisited, Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. Goodyear, Albert C., D. Shane Miller, and Ashley M. Smallwood 2007 Introducing Clovis at the Topper Site, 38AL23, Allendale County, South Carolina. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas. Miller, D. Shane 2007 Site Formation Processes in an Upland Paleoindian Site: The 2005-2007 Topper Firebreak Excavations. Unpublished MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Upchurch, Sam B. 1984 Petrology of Selected Lithic Materials from the South Carolina Coastal Plain. in An Archaeological Survey of Chert Quarries in Western Allendale County, South Carolina, edited by Albert C. Goodyear and Tommy Charles, Appendix A, pp.125-160. Research Manuscript Series 195, S.outh Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
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