High Above the River: Points, Pottery and a Pithouse in Southern New Hampshire

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper presents the results of a targeted data recovery conducted at the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester, New Hampshire. First identified in 1933, a 2022 archaeological investigation established that the site encompasses a large but as-yet-undefined Native American cultural resource in the heart of New Hampshire’s largest city. IAC’s 2023 data recovery yielded valuable data about the site, confirming the presence of high-integrity cultural deposits from multiple eras of the Pre-Contact period, including evidence for a Paleoindian component. Archaeologists collected diagnostic lithic and ceramic artifacts and documented numerous cultural features, highlighted by a pithouse rare in the regional archaeological record. This presentation provides a summary of this significant Native American cultural resource and the major questions yet to be answered.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39796.0