Archaelogical investigations at Point State Park [electronic resource] : City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources

A.D. Marble & Co

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Archaeology.

Point State Park (Pittsburgh, Pa.).

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 computer disk : col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Conshohocken, Pa. : A.D. Marble & Co., 2009.

System Details:

PDF document.

Summary:

Archaeological monitoring and excavations were undertaken at Point State Park from December 2006 through July 2007 by A.D. Marble & Company on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR). These investigations were conducted in response to an extensive program of utilities installations and landscape modification within Point State Park that was directed by the DCNR and the Riverlife Task Force in Pittsburgh. The Point in Pittsburgh, also known as the Forks of the Ohio, is located between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and consequently at the headwaters of the Ohio River. Such a location would have been attractive to Native American inhabitants for millennia. Competition between the French and British colonies led to the initial construction of French Fort Duquesne in 1754, and ultimately to the outbreak of hostilities that led directly to the French and Indian War (or Seven Years' War in Europe) and the construction of the British Fort Pitt from 1759 to 1762. The eighteenth-century origins of Pittsburgh lay on the Point, as well as extensive industrial and residential developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This complex and important record of occupation would be expected to have resulted in an equally complex and significant series of archaeological deposits. The investigations indicated that such expectations were justified.

Contents:

Vol.1

Vol. 2: Appendices

Appendix A: Qualifications of Authors

Appendix B: Scope of Work

Appendix C: Artifact Inventory by Provenience

Appendix D: Statement of Ownership (None as Commonwealth of Pennsylvania property)

Appendix E: Figures and Photographs (Included in Volume I)

Appendix F: PASS Site Form

Appendix G: Bureau for Historic Preservation Report Summary

Appendix H: Specialized Research Studies

H1 Ceramic Analysis (William Johnson)

H2 Geoarchaeological Investigations (Frank Vento)

H3 Geochemical Soil Analyses (PSU Agricultural Analytical Services Lab)

H4 Geophysical Investigations (Bruce Bevan)

H5 Faunal Analysis (Pam Crabtree)

H6 Forensic Anthropological Analysis (Dennis Dirkmaat, courtesy of the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office)

H7 Protein Residue Analysis (Chad Yost and Paleo Research Institute)

H8 Radiometric Analyses (Beta Analytic)

H9 Palynological Analysis (Pat Fall and Lisa Lavold).

Local Notes:

HSP credit line: Plans of English Lines Near Philadelphia 1777 (Of 932* 1778)

OCLC:

630599114