The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact - Paperback

by Kenneth R. Holyoke (Editor), M. Gabriel Hrynick (Editor), Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud (Adapted by)

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the period spanning from 3000 years ago to European contact.
Recently, notions of the "Woodland period" in the broader Northeast have drawn scrutiny from experts due to increasing awareness that its hallmarks--such as horticulture, village formation, mortuary ceremonialism, and the advent of various technologies--appear to be less synchronous than once thought.
By paying particular attention to the Far Northeast and its unique (yet sometimes marginal) position in Woodland discourse, this work offers a much-needed in-depth look at one of the best-documented cases of hunter-gatherer persistence and adaptation at the eve of European contact.
Penned by academic, government, and cultural-resource-management archaeologists, the seventeen chapters in The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact draw on decades of research in considering this period, both in terms of variability within the region, and integration with broader cultural patterns in the Northeast and beyond.
Published in English.

Author Biography

Kenneth R. Holyoke received his MA from the University of New Brunswick in 2012 and has worked in CRM throughout Canada for over a decade. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Ken's research focuses on lithic technology, quarrying, sourcing, exchange, place-making, and hunter-gatherer archaeology in the Northeast. He has published on Maritime Peninsula pre-contact history and lithic technology in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Mercury Series.