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How Do We Know People Used the Meadowcroft Rockshelter 19,000 Years Ago?

  This article will also appear in the Fall 2019 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine. The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a world-renowned archaeological site and a National Historic Landmark. It…

Top 10 Rockshelter Features

  The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a National Historic Landmark and a remarkable archaeological site which documents the presence of prehistoric people in Western Pennsylvania for at least the last 19,000…

Q&A with Re-enactor Jeremy Turner

  On Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, the Fort Pitt Museum will commemorate the 240th anniversary of the Delaware Treaty. Negotiations for the treaty took place at Fort Pitt in 1778,…

5 Questions with Dr. Adovasio

  In 1973, Dr. James Adovasio and his University of Pittsburgh students conducted an archaeological excavation of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter site on a farm owned by Albert Miller in Avella,…

The Discovery of the Miller Lanceolate

  Meadowcroft Rockshelter in 1973 prior to excavation. In June 1973, a multidisciplinary team of University of Pittsburgh students and faculty led by Dr. James Adovasio first arrived at the…

Prehistoric Hunting and the Atlatl

  Close up of an atlatl. As the embers begin to die down on a chilly fall evening, you look around the campfire at your extended family group. Everyone has…

Meadowcroft’s Own Groundhog Day

Albert Miller and Dr. Adovasio at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter. Nov. 12 is Meadowcroft’s own Groundhog Day, marking the day that Meadowcroft’s founder, Albert Miller, first peered into prehistory through a…