Up on the Hill - The Bristol-Shiktehawk Bifaces and Early Woodland Ceremonialism

Dec 7, 2025

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This fortnight, Ken and Gabe sit down with Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud to discuss one of the most recognizable sites in New Brunswick archaeology, the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site. We delve into George Frederick Clarke, caches, Early Woodland ceremonialism, craft production, and Alex and Gabe come dangerously close to making us the New Brunswick pseudoarchaeology podcast. They're not Solutrean, but they could be leaves. Prepare your offering to Boognish, cause lordy, lordy he’s coming home.

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Clarke, George Frederick. 2016. Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick. Expanded Fourth Edition ed., edited by Mary Bernard. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Chapel Street Editions.

Honsinger, Alexander, Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud, Arthur Anderson, M. Gabriel Hrynick, and Hendrik Carroll-Pohls. 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.

Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre. 2018. "The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick." MA, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick.

Rust, Horatio N. 1905. "The Obsidian Blades of California." American anthropologist 7 (4): 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1905.7.4.02a00150. https://go.exlibris.link/sZY1fSh8.

Hit Pieces

Olson, Olivia, "Birdsong: Human-Bird Relationships during the Ceramic Period in Wabanaki Homeland: a Case Study at the Frazer Point Site (Me 44-49; Acad 00110), Schoodic Peninsula, Maine" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4201.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/4201

Seymore, Deni J. 2025. Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement. American Antiquity, 90:419-445 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/extraordinary-claims-extraordinary-evidence-the-coronado-expeditions-1541-suya-settlement/2F3ACA404ED9993051E508B1562E4587?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

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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