The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania

Kurt W. Carr is Senior Curator of Archaeology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Christopher A. Bergman is Vice President of Cultural Resources at AECOM. Christina B. Rieth is State Archaeologist and Director, Cultural Resource Survey Program, the New York State Museum. Bernard K. Means teaches archaeology courses at the School of World Studies and is director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University. Roger W. Moeller is owner of Archaeological Services, Bethlehem, CT. Elizabeth Wagner is Curator of Archaeology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

Introduction

PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION, AND THE PALEOINDIAN, EARLY, AND MIDDLE ARCHAIC PERIODS

Chapter 1. Genetic Stratigraphy: Late Pleistocene Through the Holocene Paleoclimates and Paleoenvironments of Pennsylvania

—Frank J. Vento, Anthony Vega, and Harold Rollins

Chapter 2. The Paleoindian Period in Pennsylvania

—Kurt W. Carr and J. M. Adovasio

Chapter 3. The Early and Middle Archaic Periods in Pennsylvania

—Christopher Bergman, Kurt W. Carr, and J. M. Adovasio

PART II. THE LATE ARCHAIC PERIOD

Chapter 4. The Late Archaic Period in the Upper Ohio Drainage Basin

—Verna L. Cowin and Sarah W.Neusius

Chapter 5. The Late Archaic Period in the Susquehanna Drainage Basin

—Patricia E. Miller

Chapter 6. The Late Archaic Period in the Delaware Drainage Basin

—Roger Moeller

PART III. THE EARLY AND MIDDLE WOODLAND PERIODS

Chapter 7. The Early and Middle Woodland Periods in the Upper Ohio Drainage Basin

—Mark McConaughy

Chapter 8. The Early and Middle Woodland Periods in the Susquehanna Drainage Basin

—Roger Moeller

Chapter 9. The Early and Middle Woodland Periods in the Delaware Drainage Basin

—Roger Moeller

PART IV. THE LATE WOODLAND/LATE PREHISTORIC, PROTOHISTORIC, AND EARLY HISTORIC PERIODS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Chapter 10. The Monongahela Tradition of the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Periods, Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries AD, in the Lower Upper Ohio Drainage Basin

—William C. Johnson and Bernard Means

Chapter 11. The Late Woodland, Protohistoric, and Early Historic Periods on the Lake Erie Plain of Northwestern Pennsylvania, AD 1000-1645

—William C. Johnson and Stanley W. Lantz

Chapter 12. The Late Woodland Period in the Glaciated and Unglaciated Appalachian Plateaus Province of Northwestern Pennsylvania: Glaciated Appalachian Plateau, Meade Island, and the Allegheny Erie Traditions

—Stanley W. Lantz and William C. Johnson

Chapter 13. The Late Woodland Period in the Pittsburgh Low Plateaus Section of West-Central Pennsylvania, AD 1000-1590

—William C. Johnson, Kenneth Burkett, Sarah W. Neusius, and Beverly A. Chiarulli

PART V. THE LATE WOODLAND AND CONTACT PERIODS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA AND DELAWARE VALLEYS OF PENNSYLVANIA

Chapter 14. A Review of Owasco and Clemson Island in Pennsylvania

—Robert Wall

Chapter 15. The Late Woodland Period in the Delaware Drainage Basin

—Roger Moeller

Chapter 16. The Late Woodland Period in the Susquehanna and Upper Potomac Drainage Basins, circa AD 1100-1525/75

—James T. Herbstritt

Chapter 17. Late Woodland/Early Historic Native Americans in the Susquehanna Drainage Basin: The Susquehannocks

—Barry C. Kent

Chapter 18. The Contact Period and Native American Cultures in Pennsylvania

—Barry C. Kent

Research Issues and Recommendations for Future Research

Appendix. Table of Radiocarbon Dates

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Index of Sites

Acknowledgments