South Carolina

The evidence presented that hints at humans being in America earlier than previously thought have got to be taken with a grain of salt.
Archaeologists working in South Carolina announced radiocarbon dates suggesting, they said, that people made tools on a wooded hillside near the Savannah River about 50,000 years ago.
That would be more than 35,000 years earlier than established evidence for humans in the Americas.
"I think it's the real deal," Dr. Albert C. Goodyear of the University of South Carolina said about the dates for some charcoal flakes found in deep sediments that also contained what he said were primitive stone tools. The dating was performed at the University of California, Irvine.
The so-called artifacts were uncovered last spring as Dr. Goodyear and his team dug below occupation levels estimated to be 16,000 years old.
It might be better to have the Department of Energy and the International Atomic Energy Agency take a look at the charcoal flakes that were radiocarbon dated.
The site, near Barnwell, South Carolina is very close to the Savannah River nuclear reservation. The reservation is run by the Westinghouse Savannah River Company.
The lure of fame and fortune may have led these scientists to make an error. They may be declaring a discovery and a misleading vision of our history and future based on groundwater contamination from the Nuclear Power Plant and Nuclear Weapons Processing facility.
Perhaps the children savaged by the Chernobyl accident may soon find themselves labeled as ‘missing links’.