Archeology Month - Where the Watersheds Meet: Archeology Survey in Southwestern New Hampshire
Sunday May 2, 2021 3 - 4pm
Ellery Dowd, Benjamin Heaney, and Robert Goodby
More than 40 years ago, Dean Snow argued that Native Americans in New England interacted more within major river drainages than between them so that river
drainages became “geographic containers” while the areas separating drainages were
remote boundary lands. The campus of Franklin Pierce
University straddles the divide between the Merrimack and Connecticut River drainages and provides a setting to assess Snow’s model. Rather than a rocky upland, the drainage divide in this area is a patchwo
rk of woodlands, rivers, streams, lakes, and wetlands that would have been an attractive location for Native settlement. Historical evidence, collections analysis, and excavations by Franklin Pierce University indicate this region has a long history of Native American occupation and was not a marginal area.
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