Category: Archaeology (Page 11 of 16)

Vintage postcard with hashtag — Greetings from Pennsylvania - where #preservationhappenshere every day!

Add this to your summer reading list! #preservationhappenshere – PA’s Statewide Preservation Plan – is ready for you

May 31, 2018 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 4 Comments

Picture yourself – lounging poolside, lakeside, or on the beach – with your tablet or smart phone (or even good old-fashioned paper) enjoying the hottest summer publication that hasn’t yet made the New York Times bestseller list: #preservationhappenshere, Pennsylvania’s next statewide historic preservation plan. Continue reading

ReGIS isn’t foolin’! Electronic submissions and online data entry are here!

April 4, 2018 / Multiple Authors / 0 Comments

It may be the time of year when we all joke around and partake in fun pranks to celebrate April Fools Day, but we’re not joking when we say that your life is about to get easier. Why? Electronic submissions and online data entry! Continue reading

Most counties recorded at least one new site in 2017, with higher numbers in the southeast, southwest, and in Forest County.

PASS: More than an Acronym or a Site Number

March 28, 2018 / Hannah Harvey / 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Archaeological Site Survey (PASS) is the Commonwealth’s inventory of recorded archaeological sites. Continue reading

Lithics (Hammerstone) recovered from the Ashton Cemetery Site (36LR0165). White et al. 2010.

What’s in a name like “Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed?”

March 14, 2018 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

The Pennsylvania Archaeological Data Synthesis: The Beaver Creek Watershed B is a mouthful of words, to say the least.

It can be challenging to capture the sheer variety of historic artifacts in a single form!

Don’t PASS up this post about our new forms!

January 31, 2018 / Hannah Harvey / 0 Comments

Archaeology can be pretty slow in the winter, but like you, we’re gearing up for the spring field season! We thought we’d PASS some time updating a few things. Continue reading

Smoothed exterior and shell-tempered ceramic sherds of Edinburg Phase Mahoning Ware recovered from the Ashton Cemetery Site (36LR0165). White et al. 2010.

Punching through the Plowzone

January 17, 2018 / Guest Contributor / 2 Comments

Archaeologists are always on the ready for the next mythical idea of what we are and what we do. We don’t dig dinosaurs or find buried treasure (at least the kind that entails riches untold). We don’t all work in academia and, yes, our parents likely told us there were no jobs in archaeology.

This image shows a round cannonball section. — A Civil War-era cannonball from the Allegheny Arsenal, shown here in section.

Ringing in the New Year with a “Bang” with Cannonballs!

January 3, 2018 / Kira Heinrich / 4 Comments

I thought it would be clever to start the New Year off with “bang” by sharing this fun story about cannonballs. Yes, I said cannonballs. Continue reading

The image shows a white number 5 on a blue background. — 5 Things

5 Things about Preservation in 2017

December 28, 2017 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 1 Comment

It’s that time of year again! The end of December brings about all sorts of “Year in Review” lists and we didn’t want to disappoint you and not provide our annual “preservation in 2017” post. Continue reading

Special Announcement! New Archaeology Guidelines Available

December 5, 2017 / Kira Heinrich / 0 Comments

PA SHPO has released an updated 2017 version of the Guidelines for Archaeological Investigation in Pennsylvania. Continue reading

This photograph shows four students clearing dirt from an archaeological site. — Students excavate the Hatch site in Centre County, PA.

Centre County’s Hatch Site

November 22, 2017 / Steven McDougal / 3 Comments

This past summer I had the opportunity, along with other members of the PA SHPO, to visit an archaeological field school underway in State College. It’s not often I get away from my desk, so it was a nice chance to get out in the field and get my hands dirty helping to screen soil, even if just for a day or two. The field school was run as a coordinated effort by the Juniata College Cultural Resource Institute and the PennDOT Highway Archaeological Survey Team (PHAST) at the James W. Hatch Site (36Ce544). Continue reading