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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 oldest known Oldowan tools have been found at Nyayanga on the Homa Peninsula in Kenya and are dated to ~2.9 million years ago (Ma). [10] The Oldowan tools were associated with Paranthropus teeth and two butchered hippo skeletons. [10] Early Oldowan tools are also known from Gona in Ethiopia (near the Awash River), and are dated to about 2.6 ...
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 ...
Several other prehistoric quarries are located in the area; it is one of three known quarries along South Mountain alone. [2]: 2 The site has been rated as one of Pennsylvania's leading rhyolite quarries: with forty or more pits, it is one of the largest rhyolite quarry sites in the state. It is believed that the stone still present at the site ...
Stone tools and much later hominin remains Drimolen Main Quarry (DMQ) [36] [37] 2 South Africa Southern Africa H. erectus, P. robustus (associated) Hominin remains, stone tools, bone tools Riwat [38] 1.9 Riwat, Pakistan South Asia Stone tools Controversial - the tools were found in a "secondary context" [39] Aïn al Fil [40] 1.8 El Kowm, Syria
And the tools from the Kenya site — likely the most ancient Oldowan tools found to date — suggest this gave them an advantage in a key area: eating. The site, known as Nyayanga, is a lush ...
These earliest known specimens were found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by Louis Leakey in the 1930s. The name Oldowan was given to the tools after the site in which they were excavated. These types of tools were used an estimated time range of 2.5 to 1.2 million years ago. [1]
An area measuring 200 feet by 300 feet was investigated, but neither the fort nor any artifacts relating to the fort were found. In 1985, a magnetometry survey of the area was completed, and although some anomalies were identified in the ground, they were not considered to indicate the fort's site or other relevant structures.