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The Archaeology of Pennsylvania's Changing Frontier: the Contact Period, 1500-1763 Preserving the Past The Archaeology of for the Future Pennsylvania’s Archaeology is the study of past human behavior. It seeks to identify patterns CHANGING in human activity and explain how and why RONTIER they change. Archaeology is also descriptive. F It paints a picture of how people once lived. Using information recovered from the ground, archaeologists can reconstruct the histories of societies who do not have written records Pennsylvania as well as minority populations who were Historical & Museum insufficiently documented due to their social Commission standing. Edward G. Rendell, Governor One way archaeologists study the past is by Wayne Spilove, Chairman Barbara Franco, Executive Director examining locations (sites) where people once lived, played, and worked. Prehistoric and www.phmc.state.pa.us historic sites are non-renewable resources. When a site is destroyed, information about the past is lost forever. Unfortunately, sites are ruined on a daily basis due to modern development, urban sprawl, and looting. Because unrecorded archaeological sites are The activity that is the subject of this brochure has those most often destroyed, every effort must been financed in part with federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. be made to locate, evaluate, and record their However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily content for the benefit of future Pennsylvanians reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names before a development project is undertaken. If or commercial products constitute endorsement or you know of locations where artifacts have been recommendation by the Department of the Interior. This program receives federal financial assistance found and wish to assist with the preservation for identification and protection of historic properties. of archaeological sites, we encourage you to Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age record these locations with the Pennsylvania Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Archaeological Site Survey (PASS). Information, Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, or recording forms, and instructions can be age in its federally assisted programs. If you believe obtained at: you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire • www.PaArchaeology.state.pa.us further information, please write to: • www.phmc.state.pa.us/bhp/ Office of Equal Opportunity National Park Service The Contact Period • www.pennsylvaniaarchaeology.com 1849 C Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20240 1500–1763 12/07 TRADE GOODS OF THE CONTACT PERIOD (1500–1763) Increase of Time Line Periods/Cultures European and Native American Goods European Examples are listed, as shown, from left to right. Objects are not to scale. Trade Goods 1763 Over Time COLONIAL 100% Gun lock Coin Glass wine bottle Musket ball mold Musket ball Kaolin pipe 1700 REFUGEE Catlinite stone pipe (Native) Shell pendant (Native) Glass wine bottle Iron pipe tomahawk 1650 Glass beads SUSQUEHANNOCK Iron axe head Hafted brass arrow Salt glazed jug Glass beads 1600 Pot (Native) MONONGAHELA Stone arrow point (Native) Pot (Native) Bangle (Native from European copper) Effigy pendant (Native from European copper) Glass beads 1550 Fireclay stone pipe (Native) SHENKS FERRY Pendant (Native from European copper) This culture has Stone axe head minor evidence Pot of European Pipe trade influence. Shell beads 1500 Stone arrow point 0% For additional information, visit www.phmc.state.pa.us Frontier is defined as “the border land” between Fort Loudoun is located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. It Peace followed by conflict two different groups of people. Four hundred years served as a supply fort in the British efforts to expel the French Penn’s policies created a time of relative peace in Pennsyl- ago, Pennsylvania’s frontier was the boundary from western Pennsylvania. It was surrounded by a stockade wall vania and by the early 1700s, competition for furs and Euro- between Europeans and Native Americans. As with triangular-shaped bastions. pean goods had moved west. The remaining Susquehannocks European settlement advanced westward, so did resided at Conestoga Manor in Lancaster County while many the land considered to be the frontier. Delaware had moved west or to the Wyoming Valley above the Historians and anthropologists call the time period when forks of the Susquehanna River. Encouraged by the New York European and Native Americans began to interact, the Contact Seneca, many small Native American groups that had suffered Period. In Pennsylvania, it covers the interval from when Euro- from disease and warfare at the hands of the Europeans, such peans first met Native Americans to the end of the French and as the Tuscarora, Shawnee, Nanticoke, and Tutelo, moved into Indian War, approximately 1500 to 1763. Naturally, these two Pennsylvania. Southeastern Pennsylvania became a mixture of groups shared ideas, traded goods, and unfortunately for the Native Americans outnumbered by European settlers. Native Americans, were affected by disease and warfare. It was Mathew Patton was one of these early settlers who began a a period of cultural transition for both groups, fragmentation farm in the 1740s in Franklin County. He was doing so well that of Native American groups, and ultimately, the collapse of he undertook building a second house when a new conflict Native American cultures in Pennsylvania. began. As France and England began to expand their lands in We do not know what the tribes called themselves at the North America, the inevitable conflict between the two Europe- time of contact, but today they are known as the Delaware, the an superpowers began. Initially, the Delaware were undecided, Susquehannocks, and the Monongahela. Geography influenced but with intimidation from the French, they began raiding the where they chose to live: the Delaware along the Delaware and English settlements. In one of their early raids, they attacked a Schuylkill Rivers; the Susquehannocks along the lower Susque- series of communities in Franklin and Fulton counties, killing hanna River; and the Monongahela along the Monongahela and and capturing more than 100 people. Mathew Patton’s farm Ohio Rivers. Each of these tribes interacted with the Europeans witnessed one of these incursions, and it was burned to the in diverse ways and the short-term results were different. ground. The French and Indian War served to unify a variety of displaced and fragmented Native American tribes who shared The Monongahela— frustration and anger against other Europeans. a brief period of contact The war began when the French built a series of forts in The Monongahela culture was located in the Upper Ohio western Pennsylvania in response to what they felt were Eng- Valley. They were an agricultural people who lived in small lish intrusions into their market area. Fort LeBoeuf, located circular houses organized in villages of up to several hundred south of Lake Erie, was one of several forts built to supply the people. These villages were frequently surrounded by a stock- more famous Fort Duquesne at the confluence of the Allegheny ade wall of wooden poles. During this period, other natives and Monongahela Rivers. The British built a series of forts along were functioning as middlemen between the Europeans and the Susquehanna, in the Great Valley, and along the Forbes the Monongahela. Even though the contact was indirect, it The Foley Farm protohistoric Monongahela site is located Road, which went from the Susquehanna River to the Ohio disrupted native customs and patterns of living, leading to war- in Greene County, Pennsylvania. This is a reconstruc- The Strickler Susquehannock site is located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It is one River. George Washington hastily built Fort Necessity in 1754 as fare and social unrest. Consequently, European contact, albeit tion of the village and an excavation scene of the work of the largest Native American towns that ever existed in our state. Pictured here is the a defense against an overwhelmingly larger French force. reconstructed framework of a long house. indirect, was short and catastrophic for the Monongahela, who around the central house. Unfortunately, he built on a wetland and was forced to surren- disappeared by 1635. der after it rained during the battle. The rain caused his troop’s One of the last non-stockaded villages of the Monongahela culture. In most cases, the desire for European goods won out, The Delaware and William Penn muskets to misfire. culture, the Foley Farm, Greene County, was a crowded settle- Built in 1756, Fort Loudoun, Franklin County, served as an and in the early 1600s, a booming exchange of furs for Euro- For the Europeans, the essential goal in dealing with the Na- ment. Archaeological excavations identified a large centrally important supply depot in removing the French from western pean goods began. Historians believe that the Susquehannocks tive Americans was to acquire their land. In most cases the re- placed petal-shaped building surrounded by as many as 50 houses. Pennsylvania. The fort was never attacked, but it was the scene may have moved south from their homeland in New York State sult was warfare, and native people were killed or forced from of a rebellion in 1765 by local citizens against the harsh treat- to better control the fur trade from competing native groups. their land. When William Penn arrived in the Commonwealth in The Susquehannocks and ment by the British garrison. Some consider this action the first After the Susquehannocks over hunted their traditional terri- 1682, in his charter he was required to “reduce the Savage the start of the fur trade act of the American Revolution. tory, they began to trade with Indians in Ohio, New York, and Natives by gentle and just manners to the love of civil Societies While Columbus was exploring the Caribbean Islands, the Canada.
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