1834 | Old School
Avella | Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site located near Avella, Washington County, Pennsylvania, 27 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek, a minor tributary of the Ohio River. In the 21st century, the site has a museum, a reconstructed 19th-century rural village, and a reconstruction of a circa 1570s Monongahela Culture Indian village. It operates as a division of the Heinz History Center of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Artifacts from the site show the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years, since Paleo-Indian times. The remarkably complete archaeological site shows the earliest known evidence of human presence and the longest sequence of continuous human occupation in the New World.
1834 | Old School
Avella | Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life
Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site located near Avella, Washington County, Pennsylvania, 27 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek, a minor tributary of the Ohio River. In the 21st century, the site has a museum, a reconstructed 19th-century rural village, and a reconstruction of a circa 1570s Monongahela Culture Indian village. It operates as a division of the Heinz History Center of Pittsburgh, affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Artifacts from the site show the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years, since Paleo-Indian times. The remarkably complete archaeological site shows the earliest known evidence of human presence and the longest sequence of continuous human occupation in the New World.