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The Hofmann Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ripley P. Bullen and
Arthur M. Hofmann
Ripley P. Bullen
Affiliation:
Andover, Massachusetts
Arthur M. Hofmann
Affiliation:
Andover, Massachusetts
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The Hofmann site is in the Ballardvale section of Andover, Massachusetts. It covers the top of a small kame extending, between a small brook and a swamp, from higher land to the northeast (Fig. 12). This brook empties into a larger stream connecting Foster's Pond and the Shawsheen River. A large swamp, between Foster's and Martin's Ponds, connects these tributaries of the Shawsheen and Ipswich Rivers, forming an inland all-water route from the Merrimack River to the clam-bearing coastal flats of Ipswich and Essex. The Saugus or Mystic Rivers may be reached by a short portage, bringing Boston Bay into the system. The Hofmann site is well located to take advantage of such a route, and the association of artifacts found there seems most easily explained on the basis of trade or the seasonal migration of a few families.

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American Antiquity , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , October 1944, pp. 186 - 197
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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