Location: Pennsylvania, USA Length: 27 min
Important decisions surrounding archaeological work in the path of a major Pennsylvania highway involved sensitive discussions among 15 Native American tribes, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration. For archaeologists, the research was exciting, yielding prehistoric longhouses, a palisade, key-hole structures, and 100,000 artifacts. For both Native Americans and archaeologists, consultation about the excavation and discovered burials was troubling and hard, but compromise finally came.
Produced in 2007 by Commonwealth Media Services, Pennsylvania
Copyright 2007 by Commonwealth Media Services, Pennsylvania
Web links:
Pennsylvania Archaeological Council
Pennsylvania Archaeology (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Management Program