This was an opportunity for licensed divers with some of the biggest or most unique collections of projectile points and complete pots to meet with our Native American artifact specialists––Al Goodyear, Tommy Charles, and Chester DePratter.  Photography aficionado, Daryl Miller, meticulously adjusted his lighting and backdrops to create a permanent and professional record of these finds for SCIAA.  Divers who participated came from all around the state and recovered their collections from several different rivers and creeks.  For example Darryl Boyd and Steve Arnold were from North Augusta, Stephen Taylor, Doug Boehme, and George Pledger from Charleston, Carl Woodward from Georgetown, Julius Duke from Florence, and Alec Blalock from Camden.


Through-out the day, divers and archaeologists enthusiastically compared and discussed Yadkin, Palmer, Morrow Mountain, Taylor, Kirk, and Bascom points.  A complete Mississippian pot revealed how intact submerged artifacts found on the surface of a riverbed can be when divers find them.  Amongst the points and pots was evidence of prehistoric activity often overlooked by divers such as cores, flakes, preforms, and the other debris associated with the tool making process.