The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast "How Did It End?" - The Wild East and Beothuk Histories with Don Holly
Set your clock a half hour ahead, because today on the New Brunswick Archaeology podcast we’re talking to Don Holly about Newfoundland and, especially, the Beothuk. Whether you’re interested in agency and history in hunter-gatherer studies, or you want to know about some of the earliest Indigenous-European interactions in North America, you won’t want to miss this show. Don also reflects on the legacy of his collection of American Antiquity reviews, “Talking to the Guy on the Airplane,” conspiracies, and why being an archaeologist both is and isn’t like being an HVAC guy. Finally in this Era of fast takes, he tell us why he’s going to listen to the new T-Swift album a few more times before he forms his opinions on it.
Show Notes
Sassaman and Holly, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/hunter-gatherer-archaeology-as-historical-process
Holly, History in the Making https://www.amazon.com/History-Making-Archaeology-Subarctic-Woodlands/dp/0759120226
Holly, Talking to the Guy on the Airplane https://thekeep.eiu.edu/sociology_fac/36/
Holly Jr, D. H. and T. M. Friesen (2025). "The Archaeology of Forgetting, the Dorset, and Arctic Antiquity." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 35(4): 648–660.
Holly, D. H., Erwin, J. C., Wolff, C. B., Hull, S. H., Samuels, A., & Brake, J. (2023). Scaling up and hunkering down: The evolution of Beothuk houses and households. North American Archaeologist, 44(4), 146-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231190427
Howley., 1915. The Beothucks or Red Indians https://archive.org/details/beothucksorredin00howl
Hit Pieces
- Holyoke, K.R. (2025) Carboniferous Cherts and the Archaeology of Washademoak Lake, New Brunswick, Canada. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 29-56.
- Honsinger, A., A. Pelletier-Michaud, A. Anderson, M.G. Hrynick, and J.-H. Caroll-Pöhls. (2025). Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of Quoddy-Speckled Mudstone: A Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine-New Brunswick Quoddy Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 73-86
Credits
Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)
Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke