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Archaelogical investigations at Point State Park [electronic resource] : City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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 progr...
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| Language: | English |
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Conshohocken, Pa. :
A.D. Marble & Co.,
2009.
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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. |
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1 computer disk : col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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PDF document. |