If you collect artifacts and want to help preserve the knowledge of the early people of Pennsylvania, you should record the location of what you find and mark your artifacts accordingly. Your collection has no scientific value unless it is marked as to site location, and will eventually become useless when your personal knowledge becomes lost.

To help preserve and protect sites, Pennsylvania has a program to record archaeological site locations. You can record sites that you collect from, or know about, and help preserve your knowledge of the past.

The best way to learn about site recording and the people who made the artifacts is to join a local Chapter of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. Information on site recording is also available through the Society for Pennsylvnia Archaeology Web page at http://www.pennsylvaniaarchaeology.com

Rockshelters are unique time capsules that often contain multiple short term occupations sometimes spanning many thousands of years. Unfortunately many of these sites have been indescriminately looted and now are only rarely found undisturbed for scientific archaeoloigcal exploration. It is important to record and protect these sites. Thanks to Andy Myers for the photo essay!

Hallton Rockshelter	Hams Rockshelter No. 2
Laurel Run Rockshelter	Sentry Rockshelter (36El6)
Stewart Phase Ceramics from the Powers Run Rockshelter (36El119)	Bear Teeth