Category: Native American (Page 3 of 4)

Just Listed! July 2020

July 29, 2020 / Elizabeth Rairigh / 1 Comment

Its time to highlight six more properties in Pennsylvania that have been recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places!

Large pile of small stones around a large boulder in woods — Another flat-topped cairn at Oley Hills that is built onto a bedrock outcrop and integrating a large boulder.

Finding Meaning in Stone

July 22, 2020 / Hannah Harvey / 29 Comments

Nothing excites the imagination like an unanswered question, and since spring I’ve been exploring a little-recognized mystery here in Pennsylvania.

Forest with large boulders — Alpenglow Rockshelter with opening at western end. Photo by Dave Gutkowski.

A Rockshelter Awakens

April 29, 2020 / Guest Contributor / 12 Comments

Four years of background research and two years of carefully documented shovel test pits finally came to fruition on August 1, 2019.

March Marker Mania 2020

March 25, 2020 / Karen Galle / 2 Comments

Soon there will be some new markers out there for you to brake for!

Earlier this month, PHMC approved twenty-four new historical markers for an amazing range of subjects that highlight even more interesting Pennsylvania facts and figures.

YOUR Archaeological Site Survey: a Shout-Out to 2019 PASS Contributors

February 26, 2020 / Hannah Harvey / 1 Comment

The PHMC has been a steward of archaeological site information in Pennsylvania since the late 1920s.

PA SHPO’s Top 10 Posts of 2019

January 1, 2020 / Shelby Weaver Splain / 0 Comments

It wouldn’t be New Years without a top 10 recap, and I didn’t want to disappoint you by not giving our faithful readers a recap of their favorite blog.

White woman sitting at a table reading a book. — Frances Dorrance at her desk in Hoyt Library in Kingston, PA. Image courtesy of the Pennsylvania Archaeologist 1955 Vol 25. No. 1.

The Society at 90: Celebrating the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology’s 90th Year with a Look Back at our Beginnings

October 2, 2019 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

In 1929, the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology (SPA) was formed to promote the study of archaeology within the Commonwealth. Throughout the history of the SPA, up to and including today, the SPA has provided a forum for amateur and professional archaeologists to work together, share their findings, and piece together the archaeology of Pennsylvania.

Mapping the Wallace Paths (aka those new red lines on CRGIS)

July 9, 2019 / Noël Strattan / 5 Comments

Recently, you may have noticed a new data set was added to CRGIS and you may be wondering what it is. This new data set appears to be several crisscrossing and winding paths – and they are!

Man digging — Excavations along I-95 in Philadelphia.

Archaeology for the People and by the… PennDOT?

January 23, 2019 / Guest Contributor / 0 Comments

Yep, you’re reading that right: the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) does archaeology! Continue reading

Woman making basket — Phoebe Gordon making baskets at the Cornplanter Grant. Ms. Gordon is constructing a two-handled, split-oak basket. Photo courtesy of the Deardorff Archive, Warren County Historical Society.

The Cornplanter Grant: The Last Native American Settlement in Pennsylvania

November 14, 2018 / Guest Contributor / 15 Comments

Deep in the forests of northwestern Pennsylvania lies a little-known, but incredibly important part of our Country’s early history and our Native American past. Although now mostly covered by the waters of the Allegheny Reservoir (a body of water created when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Allegheny River with the Kinzua Dam in 1965), this land, the Cornplanter Grant, has a very important story to tell. Continue reading