Archaeology Of The I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Improvement Project: The Big Picture

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Improvement Project is one of the largest transportation related undertakings in Pennsylvania, and the project area winds its way through some of the most historically significant neighborhoods along the city’s Delaware River waterfront. Archaeological fieldwork within the project area began in 2007 and is expected to continue through at least 2028. To date, more than 30 individual archaeological sites have been identified, including 11 multi-component pre-contact and historical loci, and more than two million artifacts, chronicling nearly 9,000 years of Philadelphia history, have been so far recovered. This presentation will provide background context for the papers that follow by discussing the nature and scale of the highway reconstruction project, summarizing the archaeological investigations already completed, and describing the range of archaeological resources thus far documented.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

Keywords

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology