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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/#6460122e33e86867Hit 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=4432305Matt 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/10.2307/279653Adrian 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.