This week, Ken and Gabe discuss the Late Maritime Archaic (ca. 5500-3500 years ago). Please note that we discuss burials in this episode. We update perceptions of the “Red Paint People” and argue for cultural continuity across the Far Northeast and talk about sociocultural complexity among hunter-gatherers.

Hit pieces

“The Repatriation Project” https://www.propublica.org/series/the-repatriation-project

Show Notes

Betts, M. W., Black, D. W., & Blair, S. E. 2012. Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula. American Antiquity 77(4), 621-645. Bourque, Bruce. 2012. The Swordfish hunters : the history and ecology of an ancient American sea people. Bunker Hill, Piermont.Robinson, Brian S. 2003. Multiple Boundaries of the Moorehead Burial Tradition. Northeast Anthropology 66:15-27.Sanger, David. 1973. Cow Point: an Archaic Cemetery in New Brunswick. Mercury series, vol. 12. National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.Sanger, David. 2000. “Red Paint People” and Other Myths of Maine Archaeology. Maine History Journal 39(3):144-167.NOVA/PBS Documentary: https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_542530521B0D4DD59A20FD289444AFFE