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Photographer: Unknown
Taken: July 1896
Caption: McKees Rocks Mound before excavation
Additional Description: In 1896, Frank M. Gerrodette of the Carnegie Museum conducted the first excavation of the McKees Rocks Mound and discovered three construction layers, each of which contained human burials. The lower layers dated to the Early Woodland Adena culture, ca. 1200BC-500BC, and the upper layer to the Middle Woodland Hopewell culture, ca. 500BC-800AD. Today only a remnant of the original mound survives. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164138
File Size: 0.165 Megabytes

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