For the March program of the New Hanover Township Historical Society, Jim Wosochlo, former president of the Society for Pennsylvania Archeology, will present an illustrated talk describing “Ice Age Hunters of Pennsylvania” as found on the Wosochlo Farm Site in Schuylkill County. The Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology was organized to promote the study of prehistoric and historic archaeological resources of Pennsylvania and neighboring states.
The Wosochlo farm site is the only known Paleo Indian site in Schuylkill County. It is a multi-component site that has artifacts dating from 13,000 to 1,000 AD. The site is dated from points and other artifacts found there.
Human habitation of Pennsylvania during the Ice Age is known as the Paleo Indian period in North America and extends from 16,000 BC to 10,000 BC when the glaciers began to melt on their retreat north.
Most archeologists believe that Paleo Indians migrated into the new World across a strip of land that connected Alaska with Siberia and traveled south in ice-free corridors that opened between glacial ice sheets. Other archeologists find evidence for different routes, some even suggest European origins. The presentation will be held on Wednesday, March 8, at 7 p.m.
At the Swamp Creek School House on Reifsnyder Road by the Swamp Creek Park. As always the public is invited, and there will be light refreshments.
