No. 2 – October 1990

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VOLUME 51. NUMBER 2
LATE WOODLAND OCCUPATION OF THE UPLANDS
OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT
Kenneth L. Feder
INTRODUCTION
The sites reported on here were identified in an archaeological survey of Peoples State
Forest located in the western hills of the Farmington valley in Connecticut (Figure 1). The
survey was carried out within the context of the on-going Farmington River Archaeological
Project (FRAP).
Figure 1. Peoples State Forest in northern Connecticut.
The goals of FRAP have been f ourfold:
1. to determine the prehistoric archaeological potential of the Farmington Valley,
2. to assess the nature of prehistoric Indian settlement in the valley,
3. to determine the nature of the relationship between the prehistoric inhabitants of the
Farmington Valley and those of southern New England and New York State, and
4. to examine changes in prehistoric human cultural adaptation, including land-use patterns,
through time.
During the first six years of our work we conducted small-scale archaeological
reconnaissance surveys in the Connecticut towns of Farmington, Avon, Simsbury, Canton, and
Barkhamsted. Through this project, we have located and identified over 100 archaeological
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