As part of Mississippi Archaeology Week, a researcher at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology will speak Thursday [Oct. 12] at Mississippi State.
Albert C. Goodyear's 7 p.m. public presentation in the Simrall Hall auditorium is sponsored by the university's Cobb Institute of Archaeology, along with the Mississippi Humanities Council and MSU's sociology, anthropology and social work department. Goodyear's study of America's earliest human inhabitants has focused on the Pleistocene-Holocene transition that took place 9,000-12,000 years ago.
For more than a decade, he has studied early prehistoric sites in Allendale County, S.C., in the central Savannah River Valley. His MSU lecture will focus on this work.
Goodyear, author of more than 100 articles, reports and books, has completed investigations for the National Park Service, National Geographic Society, University of South Carolina, and the Archaeological Research Trust, among others.
For more information, telephone the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at (662) 325-3826.
