After excising the Middle Palaeoindian and Middle Archaic periods, Ken and Gabe finally found a taxonomic middle worth keeping: the Middle Maritime Woodland period (2200-1300). This week they discuss Hopewell, shell heaps, bipoints, dentate ceramics, and much more. Make sure to check out the NB Arch Pod Bingo Card by Wally.

NB Arch Pod BingoWally’s New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast Bingo card: https://bingobaker.com/#6460122e33e86867

Hit Pieces:Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre: https://www.mikmaweydebert.ca/future-centre/Oubennaceur et al. “A Novel Index for Vulnerability Assessment of Archaeological Sites to Flood Hazard: Development and a Practical Application in the Waban-Aki Nation, Canada.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4432305

Matt Betts, Place-making in the Pretty Harbour: https://www.historymuseum.ca/boutique/product/place-making-in-the-pretty-harbour-the-archaeology-of-port-joli-nova-scotia/

Louis Binford, “Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails” https://doi.org/10.2307/279653

Adrian Burke, “A Chronological and Typological Framework for Bifacial Stone Tools in the Maritime Peninsula during the Ceramic Period” in Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776629650/the-far-northeast/

David MacInnes (2021) Pre-European Population Dynamics on the Maritime Peninsula. Archaeology of Eastern North America 49:133-155.

Sites from this week:

Allen, Patricia. 1981. The Oxbow site: chronology and prehistory in northeastern New Brunswick. New Brunswick manuscripts in archaeology, Vol. 2, Fredericton, N.B.

Black, David W. 2004. Living Close to the Ledge: Prehistoric Human Ecology of the Bliss Islands, Quoddy Region, New Brunswick, Canada. 2nd ed. Publications in Northeastern Archaeology No. 6. Copetown Press, St. John's.

Blair, Susan, and Karen Perley. 2003. Wolastoqiyik Ajemseg: the people of the beautiful river at Jemseg. New Brunswick Culture and Sport Secretariat, Heritage Branch, Archaeological Services, Fredericton, N.B.

Davis, Stephen A. 1978. Teacher's Cove: a Prehistoric Site on Passamaquoddy Bay. New Brunswick Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1. Historical Resources Administration, Fredericton.

Hammon, D. J. 1984. A Ceramic Period Coastal Adaptation at Holt’s Point, New Brunswick. Master's, Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Foulkes, E. V. 1981. Fulton Island: a stratified site in the Saint John River Valley of New Brunswick M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Trent University.

Lavoie, J. 1972. Le Site Sandy Point (BgDs6) et L’origine de la Region fo la Baie de Passamaquoddy, Nouveau-Brunswick. Master's, Anthropology, University of Montréal, Montréal.

Sanger, David. 1987. The Carson Site and the Late Ceramic period in Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick. Mercury Series,, Vol. no 135. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

This week, Ken and Gabe pointed the Smith-Wintemberg limo toward Membertou for the 55th Annual Canadian Archaeological Association Meeting. Special thanks to all the folks who agreed to interviews. Check out the links below, and we’ll talk to you again in about a fortnight.

Show Notes

Arthur Anderson (UNE): https://www.une.edu/testimonial/arthur-anderson

Sara Beanlands (Boreas): http://www.boreasheritage.ca/BHCI/our-staff/

David Black (UNB): https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/arts-fr-anthropology/black-david.html

Josh Cummings (UNB)

Darcy Dignam (WSP): https://ca.linkedin.com/in/darcy-j-dignam-25597941

Trevor Dow (Ecofor/UNB): https://www.ecofor.ca/team/trevor-dow/

Nathaniel Kitchel (Dartmouth): https://anthropology.dartmouth.edu/people/nathaniel-r-kitchel

Smith-Wintemberg Award: https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/about/awards/smith-wintemberg-award

Membertou Trade & Convention Centre: https://membertoutcc.com/

Sons of Membertou: https://www.last.fm/music/Sons+Of+Membertou

Cape Breton Regional Police Service (103 in an 80 - just a warning)

Governor’s Pub & Eatery (try the lobster wontons): https://governorseatery.com/

Kiju’s Restaurant: https://kijus.com/

Lunar Rogue: https://www.lunarrogue.com/

Membertou Chicken & Deli: https://membertouchickenanddeli.com/

Old Triangle Irish Alehouse: https://www.oldtrianglesydneyns.com/

Welcome to the Early Maritime Woodland period (3000 - 2200 BP)! Ken and Gabe chat about this period especially as it relates to big inter-regional interaction spheres (like Adena) and technological developments (like ceramics). If you see us in Membertou for the CAAs next weekend, say hi and pick up a sticker.

Show notes:

Nova Scotia Pebbles: https://atlanticgeosciencesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NSPebbles2.pdf

Professional Careers in Archaeology and Beyond (Webinar/In-person session) at the CAA meeting: https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-meeting/sessions/hybrid-person-online-professional-careers-archaeology-and-beyond. Register to attend here: https://uleth.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zzMnduKVQFyK4xEWKaIQ_g

Allen, P. 1981. The Oxbow site: chronology and prehistory in northeastern New Brunswick. New Brunswick Manuscripts in Archaeology, Vol. 1, Fredericton.

Fiedel, S.J. 2001. What happened in the Early Woodland? Archaeology of Eastern North America 29:101-142.

Holyoke & Hrynick. 2022. The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact. Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 181. University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa. https://www.historymuseum.ca/boutique/product/the-far-northeast-3000-bp-to-contact/

Leonard, K. 1995. Woodland or Ceramic Period: a theoretical problem. Northeast Anthropology, 50, 19-30.

MacInnes, D. 2021. Pre-European Population Dynamics on the Maritime Peninsula. Archaeology of Eastern North America 49:133-155.

Pelletier-Michaud, A.. 2017. The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle St. John Valley, New Brunswick. Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Sassaman, K.E. 2010. The Eastern Archaic, historicized. Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology. AltaMira Press, Lanham.

Taché, K., and O. Craig. 2015. Cooperative harvesting of aquatic resources and the beginning of pottery production in north-eastern North America. Antiquity 89(343):177-190.

Turnbull, C. 1976. The Augustine Site: A Mound from the Maritimes. Archaeology of Eastern North America 4:50-62.

Hit Pieces:

Papers in Honour of David Black at the CAA: https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-meeting/sessions/papers-honour-david-w-black

Anderson, A., and M.G. Hrynick. 2023. The Site at Denbow Point, Cobscook Bay, and 20th Century Collecting in Downeast Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(1):1-14.

“1,000-year-old canoe recovered from N.C. lake moves Waccamaw tribe members to tears” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/waccamaw-ancient-canoe-1.6815398 ?

In this episode, Ken and Gabe discuss the Transitional Archaic (ca. 4000-3000 years ago). Mostly we talked about the Susquehanna phenomenon in Maine and the Maritimes, and what we don’t know takes up more of the show than what we do. We’ve also got a special lost interview from Ken’s adventure at the SAA. Finally, a big thanks to all of you who have tuned in and helped us cross the 1000 listens threshold! Talk to you in a fortnight.

Sponsor: APANB

Hit pieces:

• Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review, 2022 https://www.gov.nl.ca/tcar/files/PAO-Review-Vol-21-2022.pdf

• Professional Careers in Archaeology and Beyond https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-meeting/sessions/hybrid-person-online-professional-careers-archaeology-and-beyond

Show Notes:

Black, D. W. 2018 “..gathering pebbles on a boundless shore..” — The Rum Beach Site and Intertidal Archaeology in the Canadian Quoddy Region. https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/islandora/object/unbscholar%3A9409

Deal, Michael, John Campbell, and Bryn Tapper. 2022. Archaeology and the Meanderings of the Annapolis River: a View from the Boswell Site. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 46(1):52-99. https://doi.org/10.51270/46.1.52

Petersen, James B. 1995. Preceramic Archaeological Manifestations in the Far Northeast: A Review of Current Research. Archaeology of Eastern North America 23:207–230.

Petersen, James B., Brian S. Robinson, Daniel F. Belknap, James Stark, and Lawrence K. Kaplan. 1994. An Archaic and Woodland period fish weir complex in central Maine. Archaeology of Eastern North America 22:197-222.

Blair, Susan, and Karen Perley. 2003. Wolastoqiyik Ajemseg: the people of the beautiful river at Jemseg. New Brunswick Culture and Sport Secretariat, Heritage Branch, Archaeological Services, Fredericton, N.B. https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/thc-tpc/pdf/Arch/MIA34English.pdf

Gabriel Yanicki, https://www.historymuseum.ca/learn/research/

Justin Hoenke Podcast, “Weezer (and one more thing,” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/weezer-and-one-more-thing/id1680408602

• SAA Annual Meeting: https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting
• SAA Meeting Safety: https://www.saa.org/annual-meeting/meeting-policies/Meeting-Safety-Policy
• Branden Rizzuto: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/branden-rizzuto
• Tiziana Gallo: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=0B7l1rwAAAAJ&hl=en
• Trevor Lamb: https://www.bu.edu/anthrop/profile/trevor-lamb/
• Patrick Jolicoeur: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/directories/postdoctoral-fellows/patrick-jolicoeur
• Chris Wolff: https://www.albany.edu/anthropology/faculty/christopher-wolff
  • Northeast Anthropology: https://www.albany.edu/northeast_anthropology/

This week, Ken and Gabe discuss the Late Maritime Archaic (ca. 5500-3500 years ago). Please note that we discuss burials in this episode. We update perceptions of the “Red Paint People” and argue for cultural continuity across the Far Northeast and talk about sociocultural complexity among hunter-gatherers.

Hit pieces

“The Repatriation Project” https://www.propublica.org/series/the-repatriation-project

Show Notes

Betts, M. W., Black, D. W., & Blair, S. E. 2012. Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula. American Antiquity 77(4), 621-645. Bourque, Bruce. 2012. The Swordfish hunters : the history and ecology of an ancient American sea people. Bunker Hill, Piermont.Robinson, Brian S. 2003. Multiple Boundaries of the Moorehead Burial Tradition. Northeast Anthropology 66:15-27.Sanger, David. 1973. Cow Point: an Archaic Cemetery in New Brunswick. Mercury series, vol. 12. National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.Sanger, David. 2000. “Red Paint People” and Other Myths of Maine Archaeology. Maine History Journal 39(3):144-167.NOVA/PBS Documentary: https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_542530521B0D4DD59A20FD289444AFFE

Welcome to the first special episode of the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast! This week we were joined by Dr. Bill Farley, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Southern Connecticut State University to discuss publishing in archaeology. We talk about why archaeologists publish, what the process of publishing involves, and offer some advice for students or early career folks looking to publish their research. Bill has published in a number of journals, and is the editor of Northeast Historical Archaeology. He also is active in using videogames to teach about archaeology, so check out his YouTube channel @archaeologytube, or find him on twitter @ArchaeologyGame.

Time Stamps

6:08 Why publish? 9:55 What is peer-review? 19:10 What is a good source? 29:36 - Conferences 34:19 The publication lifecycle 41:04 What makes a good peer-reviewer? 49:55 Grey literature 56:25 Choosing where to publish 67:00 Follow the red thread 75:11 What is an author? 84:57 Collaborate! 94:43 Ethics in publishing

Bill’s Faculty Page at SCSU: https://www.southernct.edu/directory/farleyw1

Bill’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC07CjzGSWgY5lAdWZd_Ambw

Some papers we discussed:

• Fable, John M., William A. Farley, and M. Gabriel Hrynick. 2016. Mean Ceramic Dating and Historic Period Occupation at the Devil's Head Site, Calais, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 56(1):1-15.

• Farley, William A., Amy N. Fox, and M. Gabriel Hrynick. 2019. A Quantitative Dwelling-Scale Approach to the Social Implications of Maize Horticulture in New England. American Antiquity 84(2):274-291.

• Holyoke, Kenneth R., Susan E. Blair, and Cliff S. J. Shaw. 2020. Aesthetics or function in heat-treating? The influence of colour preference in lithic preparation on the Maritime Peninsula, Eastern Canada. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60.

In this episode, Ken and Gabe talk about the period between about 9500 and 5000 years ago, and the hiatus that wasn’t. Like the Archaic, we try to go deep on this program, but unlike the Early Archaic, we try to be high visibility. If you enjoy the show, we’d love if you told a friend about it. And don’t touch that dial: we’ve got some special programming as well as our usual fortnightly programming headed your way.

We’ve mentioned this excellent Pauketat and Sassaman volume a couple of times now–it’s well worth checking out: https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/the-archaeology-of-ancient-north-america/A522C499E93F7CE6C9C1BA9574575E10#overview

Petersen, James B, and David E Putnam. 1992. Early Holocene occupation in the central Gulf of Maine region. In Early Holocene Occupation in Northern New England, Vol 9, edited by Brian S. Robinson, James B. Petersen, and Ann K. Robinson, pp. 13-61, Vol. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology.

The Archaeological Conservancy’s Video on the Sharrow site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMCiGKHhA98

Tuck, James A, and Robert J McGhee. 1976. An Archaic Indian burial mound in Labrador. Scientific American 235(5):122-131.

Lake Utopia Archaic, a success in avocational archaeology: https://www.studyincanada.com/News/ArticleProfile.aspx?SectionID=13&ID=458

The resultant thesis:

Suttie, B.. 2006. Archaic Period Archaeological Research in the Interior of New Brunswick. Master's, Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton.

Black, David W. 1997. A Native Artifact from the Ocean Floor Near Indian Island. Fieldnotes: The Journal of the New Brunswick Archaeological Society 3(2):5-7.

Keenlyside, D. L. (1983). In Search of the Island's First People. Island Magazine, 13, 3-7.

Keenlyside, D. L. (1984). "Ulus" and Spearpoints: Two New Archaeological Finds from Prince Edward Island. Island Magazine, 16, 25-27.

Sanger, David. 1996. Gilman Falls Site Implications for the Early and Middle Archaic of the Maritime Peninsula. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 20:7-28.

Hit Pieces:

Chris Wolff’s chapter in “More than Shelter from the Storm”: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069371

Bill C-23 https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/c-23

Ortman, Scott G., and Jeffrey H. Altschul. 2023. What North American Archaeology Needs to Take Advantage of the Digital Data Revolution. Advances in Archaeological Practice 11(1):90-103.

In this episode, Gabe and Ken talk about the first archaeologically known people in New Brunswick: the Palaeoindians. We begin with a continental approach to the big three temporal divisions–Clovis, Folsom, and Plano–then narrow our discussion down the New England-Maritimes Region. We wrap with a discussion of Palaeoindian archaeology in New Brunswick. See you in a couple weeks for the start of the Archaic period. Follow us on Instagram!

Show Notes

Julien, 2008, p. 3, Mi’kmaw terms for archaeological time periods

Crassard et al. (2020) “Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas” https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236314

Bradley, James W. et al. 2008. What's The Point?: Modal Forms and Attributes of Paleoindian Bifaces in the New England-Maritimes Region. AENA 36:119-172. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40914526

MacDonald, George F. 1968. Debert: a Palaeo-Indian site in central Nova Scotia. National Museum of Canada Anthropology Papers, No. 16. Queen's Printer, Ottawa.

Robinson, Brian S. 2011. Bull Brook and Debert: The Original Large Paleoindian Site in Northeast North America. In Ta’n Wetapeksi’k: Understanding from Where We Come, edited by Tim Bernard, Leah M. Rosenmeier, and Sharon Farell, pp. 133-143. Eastern Woodland Publishing, Truro.

“The Last Billion Years” https://nimbus.ca/store/the-last-billion-years.html

Tanner, Adrian. 1979. Bringing home animals : religious ideology and mode of production of the Mistassini Cree hunters. St. Martin's Press, New York.

“Cree Hunters of Mistassini” https://www.nfb.ca/film/cree_hunters/

Maryland Fluted Point Survey

New York Paleoindian Database Project

Paleoindian Database of the Americas

History of the Chicken Tender

Hit Pieces:

Maine Archaeological Society: https://mainearchsociety.org/

Canadian Archaeological Association: https://canadianarchaeology.com/

Music

Shayne Dahl

Justin Hoenke: https://tinyurl.com/mu7v7unw

Sponsor

APANB (www.apanb.ca)

In Ep2 of the NB Archaeology Podcast, Ken and Gabe discuss the history of archaeological research in New Brunswick, beginning with Pagan and Wright’s 1797 survey of St. Croix Island and extending to contemporary legislation. In two weeks we’ll talk about the Palaeoindian period. Talk to you then. In the meantime, we’d love if you subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Show notes:

Matthew, 1884, Discoveries at a Village of the Stone Age at Bocabec: tinyurl.com/2p96smjp

Hrynick & Black, Bocabec Archaeological Site: tinyurl.com/2r6v77w4

Matthew on Washademoak chert: G.F. Matthew, 1900, “A quarry and workshop of the Stone Age in New Brunswick. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada” Vol. 6 Pages 61-69.

Trigger, History of Archaeological Thought: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-of-archaeological-thought/E278A8C631322BAC5B5E21C88E3CEBFB

Willey & Sabloff, A History of American Archaeology, 3rd edition. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1993

USA’s National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 https://ncshpo.org/resources/national-historic-preservation-act-of-1966/

Turnbull, Christopher J. 1977 Of Backdirt and Bureaucracy: The Role of Government in Canadian Archaeology. In Symposium on New Perspectives in Canadian Archaeology, 2-23 October 1976, pp. 119-136. Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Blair, Jemseg Archaeology Project: https://tinyurl.com/mrybz424

Hit pieces:

New volume of the Handbook of North American Indians https://scholarlypress.si.edu/store/history-culture/handbook-north-american-indians-volume-1-introduct/

Leslie,

David E., Zachary L.F. Singer, G. Logan Miller, Katharine R.

Reinhart, and Brian D. Jones. 2022. Gulf of Maine Archaic Traditions

Occupations at the Edgewood Apartments Site, Plainville, Massachusetts. AENA

50:1-30.

Music:

Justin Hoenke: https://tinyurl.com/mu7v7unw

Shayne Dahl

Sponsor:

Association of Professional Archaeologists of New Brunswick: apanb.ca