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This list of the prehistoric life of Vermont contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Vermont.
Possible Silurian or Devonian life from Vermont included brachiopods, cephalopods, crinoids, cystoids, corals, and a possible trilobite. These taxa left behind fossils in the regions now 3 miles southwest of Claremont, New Hampshire on the Connecticut River and the Westmore region. [1]
The Winooski Archeological Site, designated VT-CH-46 by state archaeologists, is a prehistoric Native American site in the city of Winooski, Vermont.First identified in 1972, it is one of the largest Native encampment sites of the Middle Woodland period in the northeastern United States.
Native Americans inhabited and hunted in Vermont. From 7000 to 1000 BC was the Archaic Period.During that era, Native Americans migrated year-round. From 1000 BC to 1600 AD was the Woodland Period, when villages and trade networks were established, and ceramic and bow and arrow technology were developed.
The Charlotte whale was designated as the Vermont state fossil on June 6, 1993. [3] [2] In 2014, the Mount Holly mammoth was designated as the new state fossil, while the designation of the Charlotte whale was changed to being the state marine fossil. [4] The whale skeleton is exhibited at the Perkins Museum of Geology at the University of ...
James Petersen was born in Bristol, Connecticut, in 1954. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1979 with a BA in anthropology and environmental studies, and earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 for a thesis on the prehistoric people of Vermont. [1] [2]
About 750 prehistoric sites are known in Vermont, [21] but few have been excavated by archaeologists, and those on private property benefit from no legal protection. [22] About 20 native toponyms survive in the state, including Lake Bomoseen, Lake Memphremagog, Missisquoi River, Monadnock Mountain, and Winooski.
Lists of prehistoric life in the United States (3 C, 50 P) Pages in category "Prehistory of the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.