 In 2019 research at White Pond near Elgin, South Carolina, conducted by Christopher Moore and 16 colleagues from the University of South Carolina, used a core to extract sediment samples from underneath the pond.The samples, dated by radiocarbon to the beginning of the Younger Dryas, were found to contain a large platinum anomaly, consistent with findings from other sites, A large soot anomaly also was also found in cores from the site.A study of Paleoindian demography found no evidence of a population decline among the Paleoindians at 12,900 ± 100 BP, which was inconsistent with predictions of an impact event.