Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: A Gulf Of Maine Perspective (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) - Softcover

Bourque, Bruce J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475770227 ISBN 13: 9781475770223

Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another director of the Peabody, Jeffries Wyman, spawned some real interest in the shellheaps of the Maine coast, but that did not last very long. Twentieth-century New England archaeology, specifically in Maine, was--for its first fifty years--rather low key too, with short-lived but important activity by Arlo and Oric (a Bates Harvard student) prior to World War Later, I. another Massachusetts institution, the Peabody Foundation at Andover, took some minor but responsible steps toward further understanding of the area's prehistoric past.

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Product Description

This well-illustrated book reflects upon two decades of excavation and research at the Turner Farm site in Maine, and details its rich diversity of organic and cultural remains spanning 5,000 years of coastal occupation.

Review

`An impressive piece of work...This is nothing less than good, solid archaeological research.'
Journal of Field Archaeology, 1998

`Bourque's careful review of the intellectual history of previous scenarios of the past in the Northeast and beyond is well laid out for all to see....Give the book a good read; I trust you will enjoy it as much as I did.'
from the Foreword by Stepen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, Emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1475770227
• ISBN 13: 9781475770223
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 430