Pittsburgh-area archaeological site gives insight into life well before America’s founding

History in America stretches far beyond 1776. In Washington County, there’s a site where researchers say people were living 19,000 years before the founding of the United States.

A massive stone overhang at the historic Meadowcroft Rockshelter offers a history lesson unlike anything you’ll get in a textbook or anywhere else in the country.

“For the last 7,000 years of the Ice Age, this site was being used by these prehistoric Paleo-Indians,” David Scofield explained, the director of Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village…

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