Champlain Sea (Geographic Keyword)
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This handbook describes the archaeological studies undertaken by the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program (UVM CAP) and the Archaeological Services at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in advance of the Vermont Electric Power Company’s (VELCO) Northwest Reliability Project—the NRP—in Rutland, Addison, and Chittenden Counties, 2005-2007. All of the studies featured in this volume were funded by VELCO.
Tundra, Ice and a Pleistocene Cape on the Gulf of Maine: A Case of Paleo Indian Transhumance (2005)
The prominence of Munsungun Chert at the Bull Brook Paleoindian site provides a case study for long-distance lithic transport between northern Maine and northeastern Massachusetts, a distance of over 400 kilometers. Paleoenvironmental factors suggest seasonal concentrations of caribou may have occurred at different times of the year, providing the incentive for long-distance seasonal transhumance. Specifically, we look at complementary attractions of an ice-edge environment in proximity to the...