| Abstrakt: |
The Squirrel Hill archaeological site (36Wm0035) is a Johnston-phase Monongahela village located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, on a terrace of the Conemaugh River near the town of New Florence. Although listed in the National Register of Historic Places, previous investigation is extremely limited; many questions remain to be answered, including verifying occupation and cultural affiliations; identifying the location and extent of site boundaries; characterizing the internal arrangement of houses, plaza, and stockades; and reconstructing the site's paleo-landscape. In partnership with the Midwest office of the Archaeological Conservancy, we began to investigate these questions as part of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's 2016 Archaeological Field School using a combination of geophysical survey, test excavation, and geomorphic testing. We report on these field results, and recent radiocarbon, particle size, and soil micromorphology analyses designed to refine the nature of occupation and past landscape history for the site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
