Before the lake was Champlain an untold story of Ice Age America
(Video)

"The footage for this series has been produced or collected over the past twenty-five years for the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archive. The segments have been recorded with a wide range of camera technologies from 35mm film to digital video."

"Some of the archaeological features presented in this program no longer exist."

Produced in association with ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center.

Photography, Peter Stein, Andris Slapins, Peter Frechette, et. al. ; music, Flying FishDancers From Mars.

"Stories about 'Lost Races' are usually labeled and then dismissed as "Fantastic Archeology" but a surprising new discovery along a high beach terrace of the ancient Champlain Sea has introduced an unknown chapter in the history of Ice Age America. It suggests that an early and sophisticated Native culture once existed in the Northeast that researchers are just beginning to recognize. The lives that these ancient peoples lived were far different from the anthropological models that scientists developed for the Paleo-Indian and the implications of the new discoveries reach through the entire history of Eastern Native civilization to our own time. This program chronicles the long and careful process that has unfolded one of the great archeological mysteries of North America."--Container.

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