Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile

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Ceremonial Time also by john hanson mitchell A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard Living at the End of Time Walking towards Walden Trespassing Following the Sun The Rose Café The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston The Last of the Bird People An Eden of Sorts: The Natural History of My Feral Garden University Press of New England Hanover and London University Press of New England www.upne.com© 1984 and 2013 John Hanson Mitchell All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Originally published in 1984 by Anchor Press/Doubleday University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936413 ISBN for the UPNE edition: 978-1-61168-488-9 ISBN for the ebook edition: 978-1-61168-493-3 The Library of Congress has cataloged the previous edition as follows: Mitchell, John Hanson. Ceremonial time: • fteen thousand years on one square mile / John Hanson Mitchell; drawings by Gordon Morrison. p. cm. Originally published: New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 0-395-59129-5 (paper) 1. Littleton (Mass. : Town) — History. 2. Wamesit Indians — History. 3. Indians of North American — Massachusetts — Littleton (Town) — History. I. Title. F74.L77M57 1991 974.4'4-dc20 91-2326 5 4 3 2 1 for Lelia, fellow traveler ...