New Paleoindian site in Keene

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State archeologists have found stones and bits of tools dating back at least 11,000 years at the new Keene (New Hampshire) Middle School site. These are some of the oldest found in the state. "To put it in context, I have been doing archeology for 25 years," one archaeologist said. "And this is the neatest site I've ever seen. This is really a very important site."


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Flotsam strewn about a campsite after the campers picked up stakes and headed home - that's the sum of what was found by archaeologists at the Keene Middle School site a little more than six years ago. But in the years since, these bits have come together to create a fuller, more accurate picture of the first humans to inhabit New England.

And while it can't be known with 100 percent certainty just who these people were, the lead archaeologist at the Keene dig is more convinced than ever that these people were ancestors of present day Abenaki.

"We know from the site in Keene that the first people came here almost 13,000 years ago, and there's evidence that they have been here ever since,"...