You can spy two lavender-colored garlic flowers in the foreground of this picture of an old South Carolina house. Where is it and why is it important? Send your best guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com and make sure to include your name and hometown. If possible, write “Mystery Photo” in the subject line.
Last week’s photo showed an archaeological dig, but where? Two readers, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., and Tray Hunter of Bluffton correctly identified it as from a dig at the Topper archaeological site near Savannah River near Allendale, S.C.
Writes Graf: “Named after the local man who discovered it, the Topper site was once the location of an ancient quarry, a kind of prehistoric workshop, where people came thousands of years ago to make weapons and stone tools. The stunning finding from the Topper site near Allendale could rock the staid research world. People were burning fires at a quarry near the Savannah River as far back as 50,000 years ago. That would have been before the worst of the last Ice Age and millennia before South Carolina is thought to have been inhabited. Since the 1930s, the prevailing theory concerning the peopling of the New World is that the first human inhabitants were the Clovis people, who are thought to have appeared approximately 13,500 years ago.”
- If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.comand mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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