The Bohannon Site

A pre-Contact village occupied sometime between A.D. 1400-1600 contained evidence of longhouses, cooking, and food processing that provides clues about the villagers' lives. Thousands of artifacts, including fragments of decorated pottery jars and smoking pipes, testify to their artistic skills. Remains of maize (corn) and bone from fish, frog, turtle, birds, and mammals ranging in size from squirrel to black bear, recovered from hearths and storage pits, reveal the wide variety in the villagers' diet. Based on decorative styles on clay jars and pipes and the village's layout, the site appears to have been inhabited by Native Americans with close ties to St. Lawrence Iroquoians, whose main area of settlement was along the St. Lawrence River.

Alburgh, Vermont · United States