CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – Ken Burkett, Executive Director of the Jefferson County History Center and area archeologist, presented a program at the Rotary Club of Clarion on Monday about Parkers Landing and various pre-history markings.
Based on his research and his associates, a book will soon be published on the findings. Burkett is also an associate of the Carnegie Museum.
Burkett documented seven groups of rocks and said the carvings were created by an “Algonquin-speaking people” possibly related to the Monongahela tribe of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
“It’s a real treasure for this area,” said Burkett in a 2010 interview with TribLive. “Places where the Native Americans actually stood, lived and interacted…are very rare.”
Clarion Rotary President Amanda Heppinger and Ken Burkett
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