Early Prehistory:

Early Prehistory: 10,500-1600 B.C. Around 10,500 B.C. Paleo-Indians migrated into the present-day northeastern United States. The big-game hunters gave way to hunters and gatherers around 6000 B.C., and slowly over time the hunting-and gathering-cultures diversified and developed according to the limits and the possibilities of the physical environments in which they lived. Between 1600 and 1000 B.C. a hunting-and-gathering society from the South, the Iroquoians, and a hunting- and-gathering society from the West, the Algonquians, drove the original Archaic inhabitants of the Northeast out of the region.

Abenaki:

1600 B.C. to 1600. A.D. The Abenakis were an Algonquian group that lived in present-day Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. They probably situated their settlements adjacent to rivers and lakes, where they fed themselves by hunting deer and bear, by gathering berries and nuts, and by fishing. As a rule they...