Deep Time

12,000 BCE – 1600 CE

Story Preservation Initiative’s New Hampshire History series traces the state’s past across many centuries, beginning with its earliest human history and moving forward through periods of profound change.

This recording is the first in the series. It focuses on Deep Time, the thousands of years before European settlement, when Indigenous communities lived on and understood this land long before written records. The conversation brings together archaeologist and anthropologist Meghan Howey with Abenaki elders Paul Pouliot and Denise Pouliot, drawing on both the archaeological record and Indigenous knowledge as it has been carried forward through countless generations.

Deep Time 12,000 BCE – 1600 CE

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01. Intro to Recording

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02. N'Dakkina and Hello

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03. Working in Collaboration

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04. Understanding Time, The Big Picture.

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05. Hard Materials and What Survives

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06. New World People

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