SEPTEMBER....Dr Al Goodyear
Al Goodyear received his B.A. from the University of South Florida, M.A. from the University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. from Arizona State University (1976). His research interests include Paleo-Indian and other early prehistoric time periods. Dr. Goodyear is the Director of the Allendale Paleo-Indian Expedition, a long-term excavation project in western Allendale County South Carolina focusing on chert quarry utilization during the early Holocene. The Expedition is also a public archaeology program where interested members of the public can register to help excavate. He is known worldwide for his work on the Topper Site near Allendale and is now investigating another site in central Florida.
November Program: Chan Funk
Chan Funk will speak about the artifacts and prehistory of Fort Jackson and the Midlands.
He is the archeologist with the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Fort Jackson, SC. Chan has a B.A. from Wright State University (1994) and M.A. from Washington State University (1998) in Anthropology. He has been the archeologist (contractor) for the Fort Jackson Wildlife Branch since April of 2006. Prior to that he was an Historic Preservation Specialist at the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office in Harrisburg, PA where he represented the Commonwealths' cultural resource interests for twenty-two Western Pennsylvania counties. He has also been employed as an archeologist for private cultural resource companies in the Midwest and the US Forest Service in California.