Did Pennsylvania Crude Light the Streets of Jesus's Nazareth?

One of as many as 3,000 ancient oil pits located along Oil Creek in Pennsylvania that are at least 2,000 years old or older. Photo (Used with permission) was originally printed in Ancient American Magazine, Issue 97, pp12-16, in an article by Thomas Anderton.

   Most researchers looking for the “smoking gun” of evidence that will prove that commerce existed between North American and the Eastern Mediterranean are focused on the large scale copper mining in the Lake Superior region. There exists evidence that another commodity was being mass produced to a degree where it is also reasonable to assume that it too was being exported. These are the thousands of oil pits that were dug in Pennsylvania.

This is the same site where in August of 1859 the first oil well was drilled on land owned by Edwin L. Drake, an event that would forever change the area. In only three years three million barrels of oil were being produced which drew thousands to the area in an attempt to “get rich quick.” Boom towns quickly sprang up in around this new find, a find that was actually thousands of years old.

An archaeologist dated the pits that were published in The Cultural Ecology of Early Late Woodland, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Thesis in Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, December 1971. “These pits were present when the region was explored in the 18^th century, and evidence indicates Native peoples were using them during the Middle Woodland Period (1,100 – 2,100 years ago). Many of these oil pits were destroyed during the 19^th century, but some 250 are now protected from development.........

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