In
late January, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of our blog site This week in Pennsylvania Archaeology. As
is often the case, anniversaries bring on thoughts of reflection and review in
preparation of the next marker. Now that we have finished our tour of
Pennsylvania archaeology by county we are going to begin a new theme, one more
eclectic in nature. It will include artifacts, collections curated at the State
Museum, significant sites and important archaeological concepts.
Our primary
goal, as always, is to share the breadth and depth of Pennsylvania archaeology
with our readers. A secondary goal is to increase awareness among students and researchers of the resources and collections that are
available for scholarly research at the State Museum.
We
think the county report served an important function but now we are going to
return to a less structured approach, similar to the ABC’s of Pennsylvania
archaeology that we covered three years ago. In the coming months expect to see
brief reports on unique artifacts, special collections available for research,
artifact types and important sites in Pennsylvania archaeology.
We are always
interested in your input, so if there is something special you would like to read
or see, let us know. In order to have more time to focus on museum renovations
and public programming, we are going to switch to a biweekly presentation – a
new posting every other Friday. We will be off next week (3/7) and begin our
new series on 3/14.
This week, we are
going to post the annual report from the Cultural Resources Geographic
Information System. We included the map of site densities by
county last week and this week we are including the sites per square mile
organized alphabetically and listings of the top ten counties with the highest
densities and the top ten with the lowest densities. This valuable resource
aids immensely in our understanding of Pennsylvania’s history and prehistory
with a comprehensive database that reflects upon the settlement and development
of our Commonwealth.
For more information, visit PAarchaeology.state.pa.us or the Hall of Anthropology and Archaeology at The State Museum of Pennsylvania .
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