Former Settlements in Pennsylvania - Bedford Village Archeological Site, Fisher Site, Deffenbaugh Site, Squirrel Hill Site, Locus 7 Site (Paperback)

Chapters: Bedford Village Archeological Site, Fisher Site, Deffenbaugh Site, Squirrel Hill Site, Locus 7 Site, Richard T. Foley Site, Household No. 1 Site. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bedford Village Archeological Site - The Monongahela village once located at the site was composed of circular houses surrounded by a stockade, an arrangement common in such villages. It was built at the highest point of a terrace along the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River, above the marshy areas of the river's floodplain. This location is atypical for the Monongahela, who typically settled in upland areas for defensive purposes. The villagers' houses were similar to those in other settlements; one house in the village is known to have been of a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft), like those in many other Monongahela villages. Based on archaeological evidence, it is believed that the site was occupied for a short period of time perhaps two generations at some point between the years 1250 and 1600. After European settlement of the area, the hardwood forest at the site was cleared and the area was farmed for many years. Agriculture ended at the site in the mid-1970s, when the Bedford County Redevelopment Authority received a federal grant to construct a living history museum at the site. The resulting attraction, known as Old Bedford Village, was built in 1975 and 1976. Before the creation of Old Bedford Village, the site was locally known as a source of artifacts, but no wider attention was paid to the site's archaeological potential until after the museum was established. Testing at the northern portion of the site in 1977 revealed evidence of a Monongahela village and of pre-Monongahela occupation dating back to the Late Archaic period. In the summers of 197...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25806501