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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deal, Michael, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

St. John's, NL : Memorial University Press, [2023]

Summary:

A retrospective look at the precontact period of the Maritimes, and how precontact cultures changed as they encountered neighbouring Indigenous peoples and European colonists.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Deal, Michael Archaeology and the Indigenous Peoples of the Maritimes

ISBN:

9781990445125