Gulf of Maine (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas C. Kellogg.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text William A. III Patterson. Kenneth E. Sassaman.

Ecologists and archaeologists have long recognized that fires had an important effect on the vegetation of North America prior to the Colonial period. Evidence from areas as widely separated as Alaska (Shackleton 1979), Minnesota (Craig 1972), and Maine (Anderson 1979) shows that fires burned since before the time when humans first emigrated to the continent at the end of the last ice age. It seems likely that the early inhabitants of North America were accustomed to living in environments that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John G. Crock. James B. Petersen. Ross Anderson.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Bertrand G. Pelletier. Brian S. Robinson.

The prominence of Munsungun Chert at the Bull Brook Paleoindian site provides a case study for long-distance lithic transport between northern Maine and northeastern Massachusetts, a distance of over 400 kilometers. Paleoenvironmental factors suggest seasonal concentrations of caribou may have occurred at different times of the year, providing the incentive for long-distance seasonal transhumance. Specifically, we look at complementary attractions of an ice-edge environment in proximity to the...