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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(1):2-38 |
| The Early Woodland period of the northern West Virginia
Panhandle and southwestern Pennsylvania is a period when pottery
flrst appears in the region and there is some use of domesticated
plants. The period encompasses at least two phases between 3000 and
1500 radiocarbon years B.P. The first has been named the Half-Moon
phase. Towards the middle of the period, large burial mounds appear
as the local peoples participated in their own version of "Adena,"
marking the beginnings of the Cresap phase. The mounds appear to be
of two forms. One style is for the interment of an important
individual or perhaps several individuals in a single, central tomb
with accompanying funerary objects. The second type involves the
burial of multiple important individuals in separate tombs with
accompanying funerary objects within a possible charnel house or
structure of some sort. In both cases, people of lesser status may
have been buried in the mounds with no or few funerary goods,
apparently so they could be near the important individual(s). Does
the size of the burial mound also indicate relative status of the
interred important individual(s)? These and other questions are
addressed. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(1):39-60 |
| Historical and archaeological data recovery studies were
performed at the Water Street Inn site (36HU151) in northwestern
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The Inn, in operation from 1842 to
the 1970s, enjoyed a decade of early prosperity followed by a long
period of decline and then rebirth in the early automobile era. Few
rural tavern sites of this period have been investigated in the
Middle Atlantic region. The significance of the Water Street Inn
site is related to the survival of discrete features and deposits
from key points in its history. By comparing the artifacts from
various contexts it was possible to examine the process of change
through time. The studies yielded new information concerning the
operation of a rural Pennsylvania tavern during the 19th and early
20th century, contributing to our understanding of this important
but rarely studied historic resource type. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(1):61-69 |
| Powell No. 1 (36S011) and Powell No. 2 (36S012) were excavated
by a Work Projects Administration (WPA) crew under the lead of Edgar
E. Augustine from January to April of 1938. Augustine reported on
these excavations in a descriptive article published that year in
Pennsylvania Archaeologist. The two sites were incorporated in
Cresson's (1942) unpublished overview of Monongahela excavations and
were integrated into Means's (2007) Circular Villages of the
Monongahela Tradition. The current article provides additional
information on both sites that was not presented in the latter work. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(1):70-76 |
| The
journal kept
by fur trader
Henry Fleet
in 1631-1632
is of major
importance for
the understanding of the
languages spoken
in the
southwestern
Pennsylvania area at the time
of European contact.
This
journal contains
apparently the
only documentation
of words of these
languages recorded
as spoken
by the
peoples themselves. A
microfilm copy
of Fleet's
handwritten
journal is
commercially available,
and
this article
will discuss
the handwritten text
and some
possible minor
transliteration
errors in the
available printed
versions. The corrections strengthen the
translations previously proposed
and suggest
Fleet was
a better
phonetician than
the printed
texts
indicate. I
will also
discuss the town
name "Mosticum" and
demonstrate that
it is
possible to
interpret relict native words
as belonging to
either the Algonquian or
lroquoian language families. A
general outline
of the languages of
Pennsylvania is
thus possible. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(2):2-17 |
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The city of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and the
surrounding region rapidly industrialized throughout the late
nineteenth century. The close proximity to the natural resources and
major east coast markets placed Harrisburg at the forefront of the
American industriai revolution. The Harrisburg Nail Works
represented one of the largest industrial complexes in the
Harrisburg region during this time. The owners of the Harrisburg
Nail Works designed a factory system that stressed surveillance and
control, and dramatically altered the surrounding landscape to
extend the surveillance and control outside of the factory grounds.
Understanding how the owners of the Harrisburg Nail Works changed
the landscape from space into place can provide insight into overt
and covert forms of control utilized by the management of the
factory. It can also be a starting point in understanding the
community's response to industrialization and how the city and
region were shaped in the past, and how the past affects the present
and the future. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(2):18-24 |
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The Montgomery Site (36CH60), utilized as a warm
weather fishing station by the Brandywine band of Lenape during the
colonial period (Becker 2006), has provided important insights into
Native American lifestyle in the Philadelphia region during the
early part of the eighteenth century. The excavations discussed here
focused on the burial area used during the period from about 1720 to
1733. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(2):25-46 |
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The Late Woodland
period (AD
400 and 1000)
is an important transition stage
between the Middle
Woodland and Late
Prehistoric periods in
western Pennsylvania.
The bow-and-arrow
and cultivation of Northern Flint
maize are believed to have been introduced during this
interval, while
participation in
the Hopewellian
trade network
ceased. This
paper will examine
the Late
Woodland phases from western
Pennsylvania and
how they relate
to the
following Late
Prehistoric inhabitants of
the region. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 85(2):47-62 |
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Located along the Conemaugh River in Indiana County, Blairsville's riverfront property was once home to productive industries. Today, all but the faintest vestiges of its dynamic heritage are obscured by forest growth. Of particular interest is the history of the Columbia Plate Glass Company, which operated from 1903 to 1935. During this time, the glass factory provided a major boost to the local economy and supported the growth of a village of workers' housing known as Tin Town. Broadly speaking, the factory's importance is also tied in with trends in labor movements and the expanding automobile industry. Shortly after the factory's abandonment the site was purchased by the federal government as part of a regional flood control project. This paper explores the site's history, federal management, current integrity as assessed by LiDAR and field-checking, and potential direction of future research. |