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State Archaeology Program Field School has students excavate the past by digging to discover objects from about 3,000 years ago

CONCORD —The N.H. Division of Historical Resources has announced that its 2023 State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program field schools will take place at two locations this summer. Space for

An interesting field school will be taking  place in Bear Brook State Park this summer, finding more details about New Hampshire’s deep past, and you can be part of it. But I’m not going to tell you where it is.“People start looking and they can...

CONCORD —The N.H. Division of Historical Resources’ State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program is currently accepting applications for its 2022 field school at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown.

The N.H. Division of Historical Resources’ State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program is currently accepting applications for its 2022 field school at Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown.In addition to continuing the excavation of a pre-contact...

Join the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the NH Division of Forests and Lands for the 2022 Cottrell-Baldwin Environmental Lecture Series at the Henry I. Baldwin Environmental Center at Fox Forest in Hillsborough. This year’s...

RANDOLPH — The Potter Paleoindian Site on the east end of town in the Moose River Valley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Thursday, April 28, state archaeologist Mark Doperalski confirmed. “This site is an undisturbed, highly intact habitation that dates to approximately 12,500 to 12,000 years ago,” explains retired state archaeologist Richard “Dick” Boisvert of Deerfield, who led a number of “digs” there. “The Potter Site contain...