Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village has unveiled the new Robert Barensfeld Center, which will serve visitors at the oldest site of human habitation in North America. Meadowcroft, in Avella, ...

JEFFERSON – The Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village outside Avella is the oldest known site of human habitation in North America, but something much newer was unveiled at the National ...

Archaeologists are looking for new clues at one of the oldest known sites of human habitation in North America. Devlin Gandy, an archaeologist from St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge, ...

JEFFERSON-Monday through Friday, Alex Schreckengost handles financial issues at an insurance agency. On select weekends, though, he becomes “Wheels” Schreckengost and chases balls in the outfield as a ...

Young people age 17 and under can get into the historic Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village for free through August and September. The Heinz History Center, which oversees Meadowcroft, made ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several prehistoric artifacts during an ongoing excavation at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village in Avella, Washington County. Visitors to the site, known ...

Meadowcroft Rockshelter holds an archaeological record of North America more than 12%2C000 years old Recently damaged by floods%2C the site is still teaching scholars about the continent%27s peopling ...

The Meadowcroft Rockshelter, perched above Cross Creek in Washington County Pennsylvania, provided shelter for prehistoric people as early as 16,000 years ago. (credit: (c)2008 Ed Massery) (Ed Massery ...