Image Gallery - Selections from The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Archaeology
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Comparison of jasper tools with other material types.
Native Americans used a variety of minerals... |
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Jasper Flakes
Jasper, a form of quartz that contains iron... |
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Trade artifacts excavated at Kuskuskies Town in Lawrence County, PA.
These strings of glass beads, silver ornament... |
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Effigy mask on a Susquehannock Indian clay pot, ca. 1600-1625 AD.
This style of pottery decoration, known by... |
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Carved and Painted Wood Post
This carved and painted wood post, made by... |
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Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife
Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone -view two... |
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Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife
Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife |
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Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife
This extraordinary bone-handled knife, which... |
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Fish petroglyph carving.
Images carved into stone, called petroglyphs,... |
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Simple carving of a face on stone cobble.
The simple carvings on this cobble, recovered... |
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Grinding stone and slab.
Grinding stones and slabs found on Archaic... |
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Artifacts from Conoy Indian Town
These artifacts, found at the Conoy Indian... |
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Stone axe.
Grooved stone axes, used to fell trees and... |
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Kuskuskies silver cross.
Most European nations that explored and colonized... |
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Carved steatite human effigy, obverse.
This carved steatite human effigy was found... |
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Carved steatite human effigy, reverse.
Carved steatite human effigy, reverse. Although... |
