Although most remnants of prior surface activity were wiped out in much of Pennsylvania by the last Ice Age, the Susquehanna and Ohio River watersheds are loaded with documented and yet-to-be-discovered archaeological sites covering the past ~15,000 years.
And yet, as covered by this article, many of these sites are being bulldozed into oblivion by the same natural gas industry that is slowly but surely degrading our streams, rivers and aquifers.
It is a sad state of affairs, this Pennsylvania.
Ye say they all have passed away,
That noble race and brave,
That their light canoes have vanished
From off the crested wave;
That ’mid the forests where they roamed
There rings no hunter shout,
But their name is on your waters,
Ye may not wash it out.
From Indian Names
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