Editing Pennsylvania (section)

===Indigenous settlement===
Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends thousands of years before the foundation of the colonial [[Province of Pennsylvania]] in 1681. [[Archaeology|Archaeologists]] believe the first [[Peopling of the Americas|settlement of the Americas]] occurred at least 15,000 years ago, during the [[Last Glacial Period]], though it is unclear when humans first inhabited present-day Pennsylvania. Between 10,000 and 16,000 years ago, [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] crossed the two continents, arriving in [[North America]].<ref name="PHMC Paleoindian2">{{cite web |title=Paleoindian Period – 16,000 to 10,000 years ago |url=http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/native_american_archaeology/3316/paleoindian_period/405749 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref> [[Meadowcroft Rockshelter]] in [[Jefferson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania|Jefferson Township]] includes the earliest known signs of human activity in Pennsylvania and perhaps all of North America,<ref name="Meadow2">[http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/08/11/ancient-pa-dwelling-still-dividing-archaeologists/ Ancient PA Dwelling Still Dividing Archaeologists]</ref> including the remains of a civilization that existed over 10,000 years ago and possibly pre-dated the [[Clovis culture]].<ref name="PHMC12">{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania on the Eve of Colonization |url=http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/overview_of_pennsylvania_history/4281/pre-1681__the_eve_of_colonization/478723 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001405/http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/overview_of_pennsylvania_history/4281/pre-1681__the_eve_of_colonization/478723 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission }}</ref><ref name="Meadow2" /> By 1000 AD, in contrast to their nomadic [[hunter-gatherer]] [[Paleo-Indians|ancestors]], the native population of Pennsylvania had developed [[Agriculture|agricultural]] techniques and a mixed food economy.<ref name="PHMC Late Woodland2">{{cite web |title=Late Woodland Period in the Susquehanna and Delaware River Valleys |url=http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/native_american_archaeology/3316/late_woodland_period/406837 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321213816/http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/native_american_archaeology/3316/late_woodland_period/406837 |archive-date=March 21, 2016 |access-date=December 8, 2014 |publisher=Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission}}</ref>

By the time [[European colonization of the Americas]] began, at least two major Native American tribes inhabited Pennsylvania.<ref name="PHMC12" /> The first, the [[Lenape]], spoke an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian language]] and inhabited the eastern region of the state, then known as [[Lenapehoking]]. It included most of present-day [[New Jersey]] and the [[Lehigh Valley]] and [[Delaware Valley]] regions in eastern and southeastern Pennsylvania. The Lenape's territory ended somewhere between the [[Delaware River]] in the east and the [[Susquehanna River]] in central Pennsylvania. The second tribe, the [[Susquehannock]], spoke an [[Iroquoian language]] and were based in [[Eastern Pennsylvania]] along the Susquehanna River.<ref>"On the Susquehannocks: Natives having used Baltimore County as hunting grounds – The Historical Society of Baltimore County". www.HSOBC.org. Retrieved August 17, 2017.</ref> European disease and constant warfare with several neighboring tribes and groups of Europeans weakened these two tribes, and they were grossly outpaced financially as the [[Wyandot people|Hurons]] and [[Iroquois]] blocked them from proceeding west into [[Ohio]] during the [[Beaver Wars]]. As they lost numbers and land, the Hurons abandoned much of their western territory and moved closer to the Susquehanna River, and the Iroquois and Mohawk tribes moved further north. Northwest of the Allegheny River was the Iroquoian [[Petun]],<ref>"Early Indian Migration". GenealogyTrails.com. Retrieved August 17, 2017.</ref><ref>Garrad, Charles "Petun and the Petuns"</ref> who were fragmented into three groups during the Beaver Wars: the Petun of New York, the Wyandot of Ohio, and the Tiontatecaga of the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia. South of the Allegheny River was a nation known as Calicua,<ref>Extrapolation from the 16th-century Spanish, 'Cali' ˈkali a rich agricultural area – geographical sunny climate. Also 1536, Cauca River. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 'Cali', city, metropolis, urban center. Pearson Education 2006. "Calica", Yucatán place name called rock pit. Sp. root: "Cal", limestone. Also today, 'Calicuas', supporting cylinder or enclosing ring, or moveable prop as in holding a strut.</ref> which may have been part of the [[Monongahela culture]].