Ntolonapemk, Eastern Surplus Superfund Site

Ntolonapemk, on the south shore of Meddybemps Lake in Meddybemps, Maine, is a major inland prehistoric habitation site on a Native travel route between Passamaquoddy Bay and Maine’s interior. Given a Passamaquoddy name meaning “Our Relative’s Place,” it preserves evidence of repeated occupation from the Early Archaic around 8000 BCE through European contact and later, documenting more than 8,000 years of use. Excavations uncovered more than 200 features, including hearths, garbage pits, and storage pits, as well as over 70,000 animal bones. Alewife and other small migratory fish appear throughout the deposits, showing the long importance of seasonal fishing at the lakeshore.

Meddybemps, Maine · United States