Meadowcroft Rockshelter
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The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek, and contains evid
Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Inside the shelter
Clovis culture
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The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present. The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 nea
Meadowcroft Rockshelter
…are still seen as state-of-the-art. It is viewed as one of the most carefully excavated sites in North America. Meadowcroft has produced what may be pre-Clovis remains, found as deep as 11.5 feet underground. The site also has yielded many tools, including pottery, bifaces, bifacial fragments, lamellar blades…
Clovis spearpoints Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Example of a Clovis point
Diorama of Paleoindians hunting a Columbian mammoth in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology
KM Mask Pointed Nose