PRINTER'S NO. 2630
No. 310 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY LESCOVITZ, MAITLAND AND CORRIGAN,
NOVEMBER 10, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, NOVEMBER 10, 1999
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing the Meadowcroft Rockshelter as the 1999
2 "Commonwealth Treasure" of the Pennsylvania Historical and
3 Museum Commission.
4 WHEREAS, The Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located in Avella in
5 Washington County, has been recognized nationally and
6 internationally as the site with the oldest evidence of human
7 presence in North America; and
8 WHEREAS, The site has been acknowledged as having the longest
9 record of continuous occupation by Native Americans of a single
10 site in the entire Northern Hemisphere; and
11 WHEREAS, From this site nearly 20,000 artifacts and
12 approximately 2,000,000 plant and animal remains spanning some
13 16,000 years of North American prehistory have been found; and
14 WHEREAS, The site represents a microcosm of prehistory in
15 southwestern Pennsylvania and eastern North America and the
16 North American continent; and
17 WHEREAS, The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is truly deserving of
18 recognition and preservation as an outstanding historical
1 resource for residents of this Commonwealth and peoples
2 throughout the world; therefore be it
3 RESOLVED (the Senate concurring), That the General Assembly
4 recognize the Meadowcroft Rockshelter as the 1999 "Commonwealth
5 Treasure" of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
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