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Phase I and Phase II surveys met criteria to establish a Trinomial Site Number and led to its official naming after James Hatch. In May of 2017, the PennDOT Highway Archaeological Survey Team (PHAST) and Juniata College conducted an excavation which revealed thousands of stone artifacts—mostly debitage—but also stone tools and two hammerstones.
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] Approximately one hundred different sites in Pennsylvania are listed under this criterion, including both ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
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.
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.
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
The Tudek Site is an archaeological site located near State College in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. Used as a stone quarry by prehistoric Native Americans ten thousand years ago, it has been recognized as a prime candidate for prehistoric preservation .
Spanish Hill is a hill located in the borough of South Waverly, Pennsylvania.Opinions regarding the origin of structures found on the site vary from embankments created by early farmers, to the remnants of a Native American village and battlements, due to the site's similarity to the description found in the account of Étienne Brûlé of a settlement called Carantouan.