Evidence for their presence in the Adirondacks includes a projectile point of red-brown chert found in 2007 at the edge of Tupper Lake. These Archaic period people, known as the Laurentian culture, were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. Lawrence River Valley and settled along the shores of the Champlain Sea around 13,000 BC. The first group to move into the area came south from the St. Humans have lived in the region of the Adirondack Mountains since the Paleo-Indian period (15,000 to 7,000 BC), shortly after the last ice age. Human history ДЄ 1876 map of the Adirondacks, showing many of the now obsolete names for many of the peaks, lakes, and communities

In 1837, the mountains were named Adirondacks by Ebenezer Emmons. Such words were strongly associated with the region, but they were not yet considered a placename an English map from 1761 labels the area simply Deer Hunting Country. ДЄs the Mohawks had no written language at the time, Europeans used various phonetic spellings of the word, including Achkokx, Rondaxe, and Adirondax. He explained that the word was used by the Iroquoians as a derogatory term for groups of Algonquians who did not practice agriculture and therefore sometimes had to eat tree bark to survive harsh winters. Another early use of the name, spelled Rontaks, was in 1729 by the French missionary Joseph-FranГ§ois Lafitau. The word Adirondack is thought to come from the Mohawk word 'ha-de-ron-dah' meaning 'eaters of trees.' The earliest written use of the name was in 1635 by Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert, in his Mohawk to Dutch glossary, found in his 'Journey into Mohawk Country.' He spelled it Adirondakx and said that it stood for Frenchmen, meaning the Algonquians who allied with the French.

The Adirondack Region is also home to hundreds of mountain summits, with some reaching heights of 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) or more. There are more than 200 lakes around the mountains, including Lake George, Lake Placid, and Lake Tear of the Clouds, which is the source of the Hudson River. The current relief owes much to glaciation. The mountains form a roughly circular dome, about 160 miles (260В km) in diameter and about 1 mile (1,600В m) high. They cover about 5,000 square miles (13,000В km 2). Its boundaries correspond roughly to the boundaries of Adirondack Park. The Adirondack Mountains ( / Г¦ d ЙЄ Л€ r Й’ n d Г¦ k/) form a massif in northeastern Upstate New York, which is part of the United States. Strictly speaking, neither the Adirondacks nor the Catskills and Poconos are part of the Appalachian Mountains, having much different origins. A map of the main mountainous regions of the northeastern United States.

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