Excavation site in Keene, NH

ZOOM PROGRAM

Part of the Donaldson Lecture Series

Dr. Robert Goodby will lead a Zoom program that focuses on the Native American structures that were discovered in Keene, New Hampshire, in 2009, when an archaeological site survey was conducted prior to the construction of the Keene Middle School. The remnants of buildings and artifacts found at this site date to the end of the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago. These items provide valuable information about the area’s early inhabitants, including insights into Paleoindian gender roles, the organization of their households, and their social networks that stretched for hundreds of miles.

Robert Goodby is a professor of anthropology at Franklin Pierce University. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University, and he has spent the last thirty years studying Native American archeological sites in New England. He is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, a former trustee of the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, and served on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. In 2010, he directed the excavations of four 12,000-year-old Paleoindian dwelling sites at the Tenant Swamp site in Keene.

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