🏛️ Meadowcroft Rockshelter

United States · Americas · 40.29°N, 80.49°W

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 evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for at least 16,000 years and up to 19,000 years. If accurately dated, it would be one of the earliest known sites with evidence of a human presence and continuous human occupation in the New World.

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Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
Coordinates (approx.)	40.29°N, 80.49°W · view on map

Meadowcroft Rockshelter is located in United States, in Americas.

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