The history of the New England region, spanning eight millennia from the final collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet to the devastating consequences of King Philip’s War, is a testament to Indigenous adaptability, cultural complexity, and enduring resilience in the face of epochal environmental and human challenges. This narrative, reconstructed through the fusion of excavated archaeological data, high-resolution palaeoenvironmental proxies, ethnohistoric accounts, and cutting-edge genetic and linguistic studies, moves beyond colonial narratives to present a brutally honest and academically-rigorous account of the deep past of the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Pequot, Mohegan, Massachusett, Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, and Abenaki peoples.
