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 | | Between 10,500 and 9,500 years ago, trees (pine, poplar, birch, oak, with other hardwoods later) covered the Maine landscape, forcing everyone who has resided here since to live and travel along lakes and waterways and otherwise accommodate to a dense forest. |
 | | One such accommodation is the proliferation of stone axes and gouges during the Archaic Period (between 10,000 and 3000 years ago), indicating exquisite skill in woodworking, examples of which have not survived in Maine's acidic soil. |
 | | Until 4000 years ago, we have reason to believe that people traveled in dugout canoes on the ocean, on rivers, and on major lakes. |
| www.state.me.us /mhpc/archaeol.htm (1305 words) |
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