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12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State

When: November 2nd, 2022

November 2, 2022, Lyme Congregational Church, Lyme, New Hampshire

Professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University and author of A Deep Presence: 13,000 Years of Native American History

More than 12,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a small river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire. In 2009, an archaeological survey for the site of the new Keene Middle School discovered the remains of their stay and brought to light one of the oldest Native American sites in New England.

Co-hosted by: The Lyme Historians

See an excerpt from A Deep Presence in the Northern Woodlands Summer 2022 edition.