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Archaeology
Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History
Portsmouth Historical Society 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH, United StatesThere is treasure here but not the pirate kind. Scientific "digs" on Smuttynose Island are changing New England history. Archaeologist Nathan Hamilton has unearthed 300,000 artifacts to date on this largely uninhabited rock at the Isles of Shoals. Evidence proves prehistoric Native Americans hunted New Hampshire's only offshore islands 6,000 years ago. Hundreds of European […]
Lecture: 12,000 Years in the Granite State
Portsmouth Historical Society 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH, United StatesLearn how work for a new middle school in Keene brought to light one of the oldest indigienous sites in New England.