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Homer L. Dodge Lecture Series: ‘ The St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands: The 12,500 years before us’ with Ken Knapp
February 16, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
The St. Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands: The 12,500 years before us
Ken Knapp, Local Avocational Archaeologist
February 16, 2024 | 5:30pm
Youtube Live Stream: https://youtube.com/live/sBQBHMCbMYY
Our Region has been in geological transition since well before the end of the Ice Age, and the start of the Holocene geological epoch. Yet as an Early Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River emerged out of the Ice Age, the first peoples were living here, and are considered ancestral to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people. They witnessed this Region’s environment undergo radical changes in the first 7000 years after melting glaciers left a massive draining Glacial Lake and the River was born. The 12,500 years before us; the Europeans, saw a rich heritage of Native American activities here, surviving and thriving through unimaginable climatic and geological upheaval that led to what we know as the Thousand Islands, this is their story…
