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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Early Archaic Settlement Site on North King StreetCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 26.826 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: New England Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Northampton
Latitude: 42.345260N Longitude: 72.64332W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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This 10,000 year old Indigenous archeological site in Northampton, MA was saved from destruction due to proposed road building by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in 2020. This ancient site was preserved – for now – thanks to actions taken by the 50,000 person strong email list of supporters organised by Nayyag Preserve the Aquinnah Wampanoag, and the Narragansett.
“No other fully intact site from this phase of the Early Archaic has ever been discovered in Massachusetts,” according to archaeologist Dr. Richard Gramly, a recognized expert on the period. “As this site was never disturbed by farming or other activities, it’s a once in a lifetime discovery for archeologists.”
Artifacts recovered have not been made available to outside experts for examination following repeated requests.
After studying the State’s 164-page archeological report and visiting the site, Dr. Gramly agrees with the State’s archaeologist that more artifacts remain buried. Gramly received his PhD in Anthropology from Harvard in 1975.
“Ritual features, that is to say, human burials and groups of burial furniture, may be expected to exist at any Early Archaic site used for habitation. But it is nearly certain that the State’s archeological work was not thorough enough to reveal any of these features,” Dr. Gramly stated. “It is a simple matter to overlook entire cemeteries if no concerted effort is made to find these elusive features.”
Read more at Greg Skibiski's Blog - which was written while the site was still under threat.
See the comments below for lots more news on this site and a new film project
Note: Nearby this find site in Massachusetts is what appears to be a large two-person sitting grinding stone. Also on this page is news of a documentary film in production to raise awareness of and help protect Indigenous sites
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