The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

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

  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.Show NotesClarke, 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 PiecesOlson, 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=bookmarkCreditsSponsors: 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

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• "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 NotesSassaman and Holly, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/hunter-gatherer-archaeology-as-historical-processHolly, History in the Making https://www.amazon.com/History-Making-Archaeology-Subarctic-Woodlands/dp/0759120226Holly, 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/beothucksorredin00howlHit PiecesHolyoke, 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: 73-86CreditsSponsors: 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

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• Mind the [testing] Gap

  This fortnight we're going deeper than we have--and maybe any of you have--before into geoarchaeology and the necessity for deep testing. Gabe and Ken chat with Dr. Heidi Luchsinger, RPA (Precision Geoarchaeology Inc/ERM) and Karl Kibler, RPA (Cross Timbers Geoarchaeological Services) about the Society for American Archaeology's Geoarchaeology Task Force. We talk about the importance of geoarchaeology as part of the CRM planning process, deep testing and why it should be better regulated and applied, and their work on the SAA's "Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resource Management in the United States." These might be the deepest thoughts we've ever had on the NB Arch Pod, so grab your backhoes and augers. Un-till next time, listener.Show NotesSociety for American Archaeology - Geoarchaeology Task Force: Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resources Management in the US (2025)Heidi Luchsinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-luchsinger-geoarchaeology/Karl Kibler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kibler-rpa-20b66214/SAA Geoarchaeology Interest GroupHit PiecesLelièvre, M., Martin, C., Corbett, M., Brooks, S. and Martin, H. (2025), “Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki. Am. Anthropol.. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28104Hrynick MG, Anderson AW, DeWater K, Kochtitzky W, Spiess AE. Characterizing the Erosion of Coastal Archaeological Sites on the Maritime Peninsula Using Survey, Collection Analysis, Excavation, and Modeling. American Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-16. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.25Credits: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

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• Sphere and There in the Early Woodland

  If you, like us, have ever been bewildered by the Early Woodland, this is the show for you. This week we’re joined by Dr. Jess Robinson, the Vermont State Archaeologist, and while "The radiocarbon dates are not voluminous", his knowledge about the Early Woodland is. A maple creemee is of course different from an ice cream, but is Middlesex the same as Adena? And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for one show, he teases a future research project on the material culture of Vermont’s maple industry.Show NotesRobinson IV, Francis W. “Jess”. 2015. “The initiation and maintenance of the Early Woodland interaction sphere (ca. 3,000-2,000 B.P.) : the view from six northeastern mortuary sites”https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/1489/Ritchie, William A. (Bill). 1944. “The pre-Iroquoian occupations of New York State”, https://archive.org/details/preiroquoianoccu00ritc/page/n5/mode/2upFiedel, Stuart J. 2001. What happened in the Early Woodland? Archaeology of Eastern North America 29:101-142.Turnbull, Christopher J. 1976. The Augustine Site: A Mound from the Maritimes. Archaeology of Eastern North America. Archaeology of Eastern North America 4:50-62.Hit PiecesHolyoke, K. R., et al. (2025). "Diagnostic Late Palaeoindian Lanceolate Projectile Points from New Brunswick, Canada." PaleoAmerica : a journal of early human migration and dispersal: 1–12.Alex, Bridget, Jenny Ji, and Rowan Flad. 2025. "Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research." Science Advances 11 (27): eadt5435. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt5435 . https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.adt5435Credits: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

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• Complexity? Well, you know, that's just like uh, your opinion, man

  This fortnight, we sit down with his dudeliness, Dr. Gary Coupland (Prof. Emeritus, University of Toronto), ostensibly to talk about complexity but in doing so have to ask, what really is complexity? We’re talking status inequality, a wealth of beads, and the best way to cook salmon. Unfortunately, Ken didn’t remember to ask Gary how the Leafs will do this year, but we can be reasonably assured they will win it all. Well, I hope you folks enjoy yourselves, catch you later on down the trail. Show NotesCoupland, Gary G., and E. B. Banning. 1996. People who lived in big houses : archaeological perspectives on large domestic structures.Monographs in world archaeology, no. 27. Madison, Wis: Prehistory Press.Coupland, Gary, David Bilton, Terence Clark, Jerome S. Cybulski, Gay Frederick, Alyson Holland, Bryn Letham, and Gretchen Williams. 2016. "A Wealth of Beads: Evidence for Material Wealth-Based Inequality in the Salish Sea Region, 4000–3500 Cal B.P." American Antiquity 81 (2): 294-315. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.81.2.294 Coupland, Gary, Terence Clark, and Amanda Palmer. 2009. "Hierarchy, Communalism, and the Spatial Order of Northwest Coast Plank Houses: A Comparative Study." American Antiquity 74 (1): 77-106. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25470539 Matson, R. G., and Gary G. Coupland. 1995. The prehistory of the Northwest Coast. Toronto: Academic Press.McGuire, Randall H. 1983. "Breaking Down Cultural Complexity: Inequality and Heterogeneity." In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, 91-142. San Diego: Academic Press.Moss, Madonna L. 2012. "Understanding Variability in Northwest Coast Faunal Assemblages: Beyond Economic Intensification and Cultural Complexity." Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 7 (1): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586090. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586090.Sassaman, Kenneth E. 2004. "Complex Hunter-Gatherers in Evolution and History: A North American Perspective." Journal of Archaeological Research 12 (3): 227-280.Hit PiecesVermont Archaeology Month! https://www.facebook.com/VermontArchaeologyMonth/

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