Oklahoma tribe gives input on Pennsylvania archaeological dig

Monday, May 31st 2004, 1:05 pm

By: News On 6

(Claysburg, Pennsylvania-AP) -- What started as a road-straightening project near a Blair County, Pennsylvania, business park has become an archaeological dig of what experts believe is one of the oldest American Indian spear-making sites in the Northeast.

Because the roads project is partially federally funded, all work had to stop to make sure the artifacts were safeguarded.

Scientists say the artifacts date to between 85-hundred and six-thousand B-C.

Under federal law, various tribes that might have ties to the site have been asked for input. Only the Seneca-Cayuga tribe, now based in Oklahoma, has responded.

Developers are still waiting to hear whether the tribe will object to further road work or archaeological digging at the site.