This analysis of the Hardaway site in the North Carolina Piedmont, challenges the prevalent view of Early Archaic settlement by suggesting that settlement was conditioned less by the availability of food resources than by the limited distribution of high-quality knappable stone in the region.

This analysis of the Hardaway site in the North Carolina Piedmont, challenges the prevalent view of Early Archaic settlement by suggesting that settlement was conditioned less by the availability of food resources than by the limited distribution of high-quality knappable stone in the region.