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Archaeology and the Indigenous peoples of the Maritimes / Michael Deal.

Deal, Michael, 1952- (Author).

Summary:

In recent decades, the development of indigenous archaeology has prompted a shift in how non-indigenous archaeologists approach the archaeological record, moving toward the inclusion of indigenous reconstructions of precontact history communicated through oral tradition and traditional practices. drawing mainly on research conducted since the late 1950s, this book surveys the historical perspective, theory, and methodology of maritime archaeology and offers insight on the lives of the palaeo (ancient), archaic (long ago), and woodland (clay pot) peoples. looking to provide answers to where the earliest inhabitants of the maritimes came from, what the area was like when they were there, and how they developed their technology and expanded their populations, archaeology and the indigenous peoples of the maritimes provides a retrospective look at the precontact period and how precontact cultures changed as they encountered neighbouring indigenous peoples and finally european colonists.

Record details

ISBN: 9781990445118 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xx, 360 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: St. John's, NL : Memorial University Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

List of Tables -- List of Vignettes -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Comment on Terminology -- Foreword by Roger Lewis -- 1 Traditional Context -- Introduction -- Indigenous Voices in Archaeology -- Indigenous Title -- Stewardship -- Partnership -- Sacred Sites -- How This Book Is Organized -- 2 Practising Archaeology in the Maritimes -- History of Research -- Naturalist Period (1800-1912) -- Early Fieldwork in Nova Scotia -- Early Fieldwork in New Brunswick -- Early Fieldwork in Prince Edward Island.

Early Professional Period (1913-1960) -- Modern Professional Period (1960-Present) -- Bringing It All Together -- 3 The Why and How Questions -- The Archaeological Record -- Development of Archaeological Theory and Method -- Indigenous Forms of History -- Settlement and Subsistence -- Economic Analysis -- Reflections on the Past -- 4 Peopling a New Land -- The Setting -- First Settlers -- The Early Palaeo Peoples -- Lithic Styles of the Maritime Peninsula -- Late Palaeo Peoples -- The Ancient Ones -- 5 The Long Ago People -- The Setting -- Early and Middle Archaic in Maine and New England.

Gulf of Maine Archaic (ca. 9,500-6,000 14C yrs BP) -- Early and Middle Archaic in the Maritimes -- Late Archaic (ca. 6,000-4,500 14C yrs BP) -- Interior Late Archaic (6,000-4,500 14C yrs BP) -- Coastal Late Archaic (5,000-3,800 14C yrs BP) -- Transitional (or Terminal) Archaic -- Early Transitional Archaic (ca. 4,000-3,400 14C yrs BP) -- Late Transitional Archaic (ca. 3,400-3,000 14C yrs BP) -- Archaic-Early Woodland Transition -- Increasing Cultural Complexity -- 6 The Clay Pot People -- Meadowood Early Woodland (c. 2,800-2,200 14C yrs BP) -- Middlesex Early Woodland.

Middle and Late Woodland Periods (ca. 2,200-500 14C yrs BP) -- Subsistence Patterning -- Floral Resources -- Faunal Resources -- Inorganic Resources -- Scots Bay Lithics -- Lithic Distribution -- Settlement and Subsistence Models -- Historic Lifeways Develop in the Maritime Peninsula -- 7 The Prophecy -- Port Royal Habitation and the Meeting of French and Indigenous Feasting Traditions -- Colonial Life after Port Royal -- Postcontact Archaeology -- Precontact Period in Retrospect -- References Cited -- Index.