Reply #12: I am sure that South Carolina was inhabited... [View All]

albeit quite temporarily or spasmodically by paleohunters of megafauna, perhaps even 12,000 years ago.

There was no significant permanent settlement in the Southeast, nor really anywhere on the continent, until a couple thousand years ago, when they started vesting their time in plant domestication.

In the rich forests of the Carolinas, however, the game and wild plants were so abundant that it is highly likely they held on to gathering long after others were settling in to agriculture.

Still, though, paleohunters were all over this continent at LEAST 12,000 years ago.

I am one of the few archaeologists who believe that American Indians were here at the very least 40,000 years ago. Too many sites have been dated at least that old for it to be any other way.