- Meadowcroft Rockshelter - Wikipedia
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is recognized as a National Historic Landmark, a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Treasure, and as an official project of Save America's Treasures The rockshelter is a natural formation beneath an overhanging cliff of Morgantown-Connellsville sandstone, which is a thick Pennsylvanian -age sandstone, brown in color
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village - Heinz History Center
Take your family on a day-long adventure at Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, located in Avella, Washington County, Pa A National Historic Landmark, Meadowcroft features a massive rock overhang – the Rockshelter – used 19,000 years ago for shelter by the region’s first inhabitants
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter: North America’s Oldest Human Settlement
Digs at what became known as the Meadowcroft Rockshelter were done every summer from 1973-1979 and have been done ever few years since During this time, over 20,000 artifacts have been
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter And Historic Village | #PAGetaway - visitPA
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, the oldest site of human habitation in North America, provides a unique glimpse into the lives of prehistoric hunters and gathers This National Historic Landmark, located in Avella, Washington County, Pa , features a massive, 16,000-year-old rock overhang used by our earliest ancestors for shelter
- Visiting Meadowcroft Rockshelter: North Americas Oldest Known Site of . . .
Today, Meadowcroft Rockshelter draws thousands of visitors from around the world to this tiny rural corner of Pennsylvania Until recent years, the short hike up to the rock shelter was precarious at best and was rarely open to the public
- Step Back In Time Three Times At Meadowcroft Rockshelter
See blacksmiths work with fire, throw an ancient spear and look at the oldest known inhabited place in North America by stepping back in time at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter located on a bluff overlooking Cross Creek in northern Washington County
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter Historic Village
At Meadowcroft’s interpretive villages, you can step back in time to encounter rural life over the past 500 years Explore a wigwam and test your aim with a spear thrower at the 16th-century Eastern Woodland Indian Village, experience an 18th-century log cabin and open-sided trading post, and watch a blacksmith
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter - The Brain Chamber
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, an archaeological site near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania, provides a unique glimpse into ancient human life Overlooking Cross Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River, this site contains evidence of continuous human habitation for over 19,000 years
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