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The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
The direct historical approach to archaeology was a methodology developed in the United States of America during the 1920s-1930s by William Duncan Strong and others, which argued that knowledge relating to historical periods is extended back into earlier times. This methodology involves taking an archaeological site that has historical accounts ...
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Students at Erie's Gannon University investigated the park under the leadership of a university archaeologist in the summer of that year, beginning a program of annual field schools that continued through the rest of the 1970s. [2]: 2 These excavations yielded little evidence of disturbance at the sites, adding to their significance.
Lewis Roberts Binford (November 21, 1931 – April 11, 2011) was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
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The Oscar Leibhart Site, designated (36YO9) is an archaeological site located in Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was the site of both prehistoric and protohistoric occupation. Digging by landowner Oscar Leibhart began by 1910 with extensive amateur excavations of burials occurring between 1925 and 1936.