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I'll be damned. I know Al Goodyear. Met him the first time when I took an arrowhead to him that I found while digging the foundation for our home ... and it turned out to be a Clovis point spearhead about 15,000 years old. I've run into him a few times since over on campus. He's a bit eccentric but the guy is a genius. He's been obsessed with finding proof of earlier civilization in SC and around the south for a couple of decades now ... The State Newspaper did a special front page feature on him about five years ago timelining his search and all the things he has found here ... that's what prompted me to contact him in the first place. He was really interested in my find and wanted to know where, how deep, what type of soil I found it in, etc.

The guy is going to find what he is looking for because he is relentless and he believes in what he is doing. He is methodical and he knows he is right. It's very interesting if you stop and think about it. A find along the lines of what he is looking for could very well change our notions about how evolution took place and the migration of humans into North America - it would be ground breaking, pardon the pun.

Russ