Archaeology in Lancaster County

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STEM, Summer Reading
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on June 15, 2026 @ 6:00am.
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  • This event is for registrants age 5 and above.

Program Description

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Adults and interested older children. Please register each person in your group.

The land we today call Lancaster County has a rich history that stretches millennia into the past. Archaeology has given us a unique toolset to peer into this deep past and glimpse the lives of the earliest peoples to live on this land, who have been hunting, gardening, engineering, philosophizing, crafting, dancing, playing, and much more for countless generations. This presentation will focus on pre-European contact and early contact archaeological sites and theories to paint a picture of what life may have been like for some of the various Indigenous peoples who inhabited and shaped this region in the past.