Highway Archaeology in Pennsylvania
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.
Web Links:
Cultural Resources Management Program (Pennsylvania Department of Transportation)
Pennsylvania Archaeological Council
Pennsylvania Archaeology (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission)
Skelly and Loy Archaeological Services
Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology