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    Digging park history

    May 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Book review by Philip Terrie

    Achaeology in the Adirondacks? Does that make sense? When David Starbuck was growing up in Chestertown and hoping for a career digging up and analyzing ancient cultures and their buried artifacts, he was advised that he would never practice this calling in the Adirondacks. Archaeologists, he was told, dug their pits in Greece and Egypt and other exotic locales, not the Adirondacks, which, conventional wisdom held, offered no ancient sites and no significant Native American presence. Both of these caveats turned out to be off the mark.

    We now know that Native Americans lived, traveled, and traded in the Adirondacks for millennia. And from the era of Euro-American incursion, we

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