Editing Claremont, New Hampshire (section)

===Pre-colonial native populations===

The [[Connecticut River#Pre-1614: American Indian populations|Upper Connecticut River Valley]] was home to the [[Pennacook]] and Western [[Abenaki]] ([[Sokoki]]) peoples, later merging with members of other [[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] tribes displaced by the wars and famines that accompanied the European settling of the region.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tolatsga.org/aben.html |title=Abenaki History |publisher=tolatsga.org |access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> The [[Hunter Archeological Site]], located near the bridge connecting Claremont with [[Ascutney, Vermont]], is a significant prehistoric Native American site that includes seven levels of occupational evidence, including evidence of at least three [[Longhouses of the indigenous peoples of North America|longhouses]]. The oldest dates recorded from evidence gathered during excavations in 1967 were to 1300 [[Common Era|CE]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Starbuck |first=David |title=The Archeology of New Hampshire |publisher=University of New Hampshire Press |location=Durham, NH |year=2006 |isbn=9781584655626 |page=[https://archive.org/details/archeologyofnewh00star/page/89 89] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/archeologyofnewh00star/page/89}}</ref>