Book

A deep presence : 13,000 years of Native American history / Robert G. Goodby.

Record details

ISBN: 9781942155409
ISBN: 1942155409
Physical Description: xii, 138 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm
Publisher: Portsmouth, New Hampshire : Peter E. Randall Publisher, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

General Note:	"Published in cooperation with the Harris Center for Conservation Education and the Historical Society of Cheshire County."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-137).
Summary, etc.:	"Almost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire. This begins the remarkable story of Native Americans in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, part of the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people. Typically neglected or denied by conventional history, the long presence of Native people in southwestern New Hampshire is revealed by archaeological evidence for their deep, enduring connections to the land and the complex social worlds they inhabited. From the Tenant Swamp Site in Keene, with the remains of the oldest known dwellings in New England, to the 4,000-year-old Swanzey Fish Dam still visible in the Ashuelot River, A Deep Presence tells their story in a narrative fashion, drawing on the author's thirty years of fieldwork and presenting compelling evidence from archaeology, written history, and the living traditions of today's Abenaki people" -- Provided by publisher