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By Lucianne Lavin

ISBN-10: 0300186649

ISBN-13: 9780300186642

More than 10,000 years in the past, humans settled on lands that now lie in the barriers of the kingdom of Connecticut. Leaving no written files and scarce archaeological is still, those peoples and their groups have remained unknown to all yet a couple of archaeologists and different students. This pioneering publication is the 1st to supply an entire account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days in their arrival to the current day.
 
Lucianne Lavin attracts on interesting new archaeological and ethnographic discoveries, interviews with local american citizens, infrequent records together with periodicals, archaeological reviews, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations, convention papers, newspapers, and govt documents, in addition to her personal ongoing archaeological and documentary learn. She creates a desirable and remarkably unique portrait of indigenous peoples in deep historic  times ahead of eu touch and in their altering lives in the past four hundred years of colonial and country background. She additionally encompasses a brief learn of local american citizens in Connecticut within the 20th and twenty-first centuries. This booklet brings to gentle the richness and variety of Connecticut’s indigenous histories, corrects incorrect information concerning the vanishing Connecticut Indian, and divulges the numerous roles and contributions of local american citizens to modern day Connecticut.

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In the field, charcoal particles are removed with tweezers or other tools that 29 American Indian Archaeological Institute’s (now IAIS) excavation at the Templeton site in Washington, Connecticut, showing troweling technique and the use of baulks as an aid in digging in stratigraphic levels. 30 ARCHAEOLOGY IN CONNECTICUT Careful recovery and measurement of features and artifacts are essential to the recovery of information from an excavation. Top, troweling to identify the outline of a feature at the Schaghticoke Reservation site during a phase 1 survey by Archaeological Research Specialists.

What raw materials did they have? Where did these materials originate? What food remains can we identify? Can we determine who occupied the site and what they were doing there? 33 Radiocarbon Dating and Calibration The absolute radiometric dating technique called radiocarbon dating, developed by W. F. Libby soon after World War II, has enabled archaeologists to accurately ARCHAEOLOGY IN CONNECTICUT calculate calibrated dates for organic materials as far back as 50,000 years. This technique measures the disintegration of the carbon-14 (14C) isotope, which occurs naturally and has a half-life of 5,780 years, in the remains of plants and animals.

Connecticut Archaeology Comes of Age In 1966, Lewis contacted Dr. Rouse about excavating his garden and fields. Skeptical at first, Rouse quickly agreed once he determined that Day’s surface finds were quite old and significant—some material was Paleo-Indian, about 10,000 16 ARCHAEOLOGY IN CONNECTICUT Graduate students at the Yale Archaeological Field School at the Lewis-Walpole site in Farmington, Connecticut, about 1977. years old. Their diversity and number convinced Rouse that a systematic excavation of the site was needed.

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