Dartmouth Team Conducts First Radar-based Archeological Survey at the Weirs

The Laconia Daily Sun talked with Anthropology Postdoctoral Fellow and Irving Institute Affiliate Nathaniel Kitchel about his team's archeological research on the shore of Lake Winnipesauke in New Hampshire. In the article, Kitchel explains, "My area of interest is the first peoples here in New Hampshire during the Ice Age and just after and how people responded to environmental change and the end of the Ice Age. . . . The end of the Pleistocene [era] here in New Hampshire is one of the more substantial periods of environmental change globally in the past 11,000 years, so understanding how those environments changed and how people coped with those changes is interesting to me, especially as we face our own period of impending climate change."

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