Why are Vermonts archeological sites important?
Vermont’s prehistoric and historic archeological sites are a crucial link with much of our past. For most of Vermont’s long 12,000 year old history, people did not write. In the period of written history, most people didn’t write and were not written about. Archeological sites are often the only source of information for the longest part of human history in Vermont. Vermont’s archeological sites can also inform us about past environments, landscape changes, climatic changes, and the ways in which native people and their cultures successfully adapted to such changes.
