It's Too Late (Though We Really Did Try to Explain It)

In this marathon episode—did you know marathon actually refers to the legend Philippides?—Ken and Gabe tangent their way through the Late Maritime Woodland. By the time the balthazar—a large format bottle named, incidentally for one of the biblical magi, another word for “wise man” in the Anglo-Catholic tradition—of Courvoisier–which is a drink—was gone, the sun was rising and both of your intrepid hosts had gotten in over their heads discussing Japanese hunter-gatherers, too. Show NotesBinford, L.R. 1980. Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation. American Antiquity 45(1):4-20.Black, D. W. 2002. Out of the Blue and Into the Black: The Middle-Late Maritime Woodland Transition in the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick, Canada. In Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700-1300, edited by J. P. Hart, and C.B. Rieth, pp. 301-320. New York State Museum Bulletin #496. University of the State of New York/State Education Department, Albany.Blair, S. E. (2010). Missing the boat in lithic procurement: Watercraft and the bulk procurement of tool-stone on the Maritime Peninsula. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 29(1), 33-46.Cox, S.L. 2021. Goddard: A Prehistoric Village Site on Blue Hill Bay, Mainehttps://mainearchsociety.org/store/ [You can read Gabe’s review of it here: https://doi.org/10.51270/46.1.133 and Ken’s review of it in Northeast Anthro vol. 89]Foulkes, E. V. 1981. Fulton Island: a stratified site in the Saint John River Valley of New Brunswick M.A. thesis, Dept. of Anthropology, Trent University.Fox, A. N. 2015. A study of Late Woodland projectile point typology in New York using elliptical Fourier outline analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4:501-509,Holyoke, K.R., and M. G. Hrynick [yer hosts]. 2015. Portages and Lithic Procurement in the Northeastern Interior: A Case Study from the Mill Brook Stream Site, Lower Saint John River Valley, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 39(2):213-240.Leonard, K. 1996. Mi'kmaq Culture During the Late Woodland and Early Historic Periods. Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Toronto.Leonard, K. 1995. Woodland or Ceramic Period: a theoretical problem. Northeast Anthropology 50:19-30.Loring, S.1985. Boundary Maintenance, Mortuary Ceremonialism and Resource Control in the Early Woodland: Three Cemetery Sites in Vermont. Archaeology of Eastern North America 13:93-127.Miller, V.P. 1983. Social and Political Complexity on the East Coast: the Micmac Case. In The Evolution of Maritime Cultures on the Northeast and the Northwest Coasts of America, edited by R.J. Nash, pp. 41-55, Vol. 11. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.Smith, B.D., 2001. Low-level food production. Journal of archaeological research, 9:1-43.Thériault, C., Hamilton, A., & McGrath, W. (2019). Archaeological Mitigation for the Fundy Connector Project, Kings County, New Brunswick: Archaeological Excavation Report for BjDh-3, BjDh-5, BjDh-6, BjDh-7.Wallace, B. 2009. L'Anse aux Meadows, Leif Eriksson's Home in Vinland. Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2:114-125.Hit pieces:Hoopes J.W. , F. Dibble, and C. Feagans. 2023) Apocalypse Not: Archaeologists Respond to Pseudoarchaeology. The SAA Archaeological Record, 23(3): 28-35Historic Places Days: https://historicplacesdays.ca/for-sites/