Supporting Paleoindian Viewsheds with the Jefferson VII Site, Jefferson, New Hampshire

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Viewsheds provide an integral part in understanding the first peoples inhabiting the early Northeastern landscape. Work conducted by Dr. Richard Boisvert and others have established a way of analyzing the paleo landscape by looking at the vantage point of different settlements excavated in New Hampshire. I intend to add to this list by examining the Jefferson VII site, a hunter’s lookout close to the surrounding sites Boisvert has investigated. In addition to the Jefferson VII site I will be comparing other sites across the landscapes to the recently proposed model and against Jefferson VII. In this way I hope to provide a clear sampling between the different data sets of similar sites while providing a number of adequate control sites where the testing has already been done. With this information I hope to increase the amount of data available on paleo overwatch points so that the same methods can be used on other sites to better map the Pleistocene pathways that helped people the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 33389