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Discover Pennsylvania's
Prehistoric People

Welcome!

Students will learn to "think like an archaeologist" while discovering the prehistory of Pennsylvania. They'll do everything but an actual excavation!

Students will:

• Explore evidence
• Build hypotheses
• Analyze results
• Present findings

How to use this site!

This site is divided into the three periods of ancient Pennsylvania history:

• Paleoindian Period
• Archaic Period
• Woodland Period

Each period includes lesson plans, media resources, and print materials.

Get started!

• Go to lesson plans.

Credits!

• Project Archaeology: Pennsylvania, an Archaeology Curriculum for Middle School Grades Five Through Eight (1996) was developed by the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council with grant support from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Additional thanks to Kathleen Benson, Ph.D. (lesson plans); Kurt W. Carr, Ph.D. (Paleoindian Period); Patricia Miller, Ph.D. and Paul Raber, Ph.D. (Archaic Period); Conran Hay, Ph.D. (Woodland Period); Ellen Bedell, Ph.D. (artist); and Renata B. Wolynec Ph.D. (project director and editor).
• Materials adapted from The Mystery of the Monongahela by Varna G. Boyd and Kathleen A. Furgerson, 1999, Greenhorne & O’Mara, Inc., the United States Department of Transportation, The Federal Highway Adminstration, and the
  Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

"Archaeology in Pennsylvania" is based on Project Archaeology: Pennsylvania, an Archaeology Curriculum for Middle School Grades Five Through Eight (1996),
developed by the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council with grant support from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

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