This fortnight, the Northeast is engulfed in a heat wave and Alberta has returned to periglacial conditions. Gabe is therefore on assignment poolside while Ken stokes the fire and says a prayer for his tomatillos. Whether you’re in a daiquiri or a hot toddy setting today, get ready to change latitude and change attitude as the NB Archaeology Podcast goes south of the border. In the latest installment of our Great Sites series, we’re joined by Arthur Anderson of the University of New England to tell us all about Maine site 5.06 or the village of Chouacoët. 5.06 is the so-called village described by Champlain in 1605, but Arthur’s recent work there suggests some 2000 years of Indigenous occupation at the site, and complicates archaeological understanding about what a village should look like.

Great Citations:

Anderson, Arthur W. 2022. The village of Chouacoët and the ceramic and protohistoric periods on Saco Bay, Maine. In The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Present (pp.507-521). Canadian Museum of History Mercury Series, eds. Kenneth R. Holyoke and M. Gabriel Hrynick. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Baker, Emerson W. 2004. Finding the Almouchiquois: Native American families, territories, and land sales in southern Maine. Ethnohistory 51(1):73-100.

Leveillee, Alan, Joseph N. Waller Jr., and Donna Ingham. 2006 Dispersed Villages in Late Woodland Period South-Coastal Rhode Island. Archaeology of Eastern North America 34:71-89.

Lore, Robert J. 2006. Adaptations in the Edge Environment: Faunal Analysis of an Armouchiquois Indian Village. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 46(1):1-22.

Spahr, Tim. 2019. Northeast Algonquin Weir Remains at Redin Island: Comparing Local Features to Historic Illustrations. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 59(1):1-20.

And check out:

Holyoke, K.R., and M.G. Hrynick. 2024. Podcasting and Public Archaeology: the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast. The SAA Archaeological Record 24(3):11–17.

Credits:

Sponsors: APANB, ULeth SSHRC Exchange

Producer: Emanuel Akel LinkedIn; Noize &Freeze Files