The reconstructed small Monongahela Village gives us and look into the 16th century life of Native Americans in what is today western Pennsylvania, United States. Using tools such as stone or elk scapula hoes, antler rakes, or simple digging sticks, they cultivated three vegetables, corn, beans, and squash. They weaved baskets and corn sifters. The Monongahela Indians had also primitive ceramics.
Monongahela people lived in villages that had up to 100 structures. There were two types of houses, all oval with woven cane walls, some had an annex. It is not clear whether house attachments served as smokehouse or simply as a storage area. A palisaded settlement had a narrow entrance formed by overlapped outer walls. It was to protect villagers not only against enemy attacks by also against wild animals.
