Geoarchaeological investigations at the Topper and Big Pine Tree sites, Allendale County, South Carolina

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1300-1311

  Waters, Michael R ^a   Forman, Steven L ^b   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^c   Foss, John ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Stafford Research Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^d Soils International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Pine Tree site; Geoarchaeology; Late Quaternary geology; Paleoamerican archaeology; South Carolina; Southeastern U.S.; Topper site

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; LUMINESCENCE DATING; METAMORPHOSIS; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ALLENDALE COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; SAVANNAH RIVER; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349172145     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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