The Oscar Leibhart Site, designated (36YO9) is a

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located in Lower Windsor Township,

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. It was the site of both prehistoric and protohistoric occupation. Digging by landowner Oscar Leibhart began by 1910 with extensive amateur excavations of burials occurring between 1925 and 1936. The Pennsylvania State Museum undertook the excavation of a longhouse in 1956. Additional excavation by Pennsylvania State Archaeologist Barry Kent took place in August 1975. Artifacts uncovered from the site date to the Early Woodland Period (1000 B.C.–200 B.C.) and to the mid-17th century. A

Susquehannock The Susquehannock people, also called the Conestoga by some English settlers or Andastes were Iroquoian Native Americans who lived in areas adjacent to the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, ranging from its upper reaches in the southern p ...

village that was home to roughly 1,200 people was located here from to 1675. The pallisaded village was located on a hilltop west of the river and above it. The palisaded village appears on Augustin Herrman's 1670 map of Virginia and Maryland. Three indigenous cemeteries associated with the village have been identified. The site was added to the

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in 1984., and was purchased from the Leibhart family in 2008 by the Archaeological Conservancy.

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