Eastern Canada (Geographic Keyword)
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Documents and other data related to the archaeological record of Northeastern North America
Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers: Implications from Ethnohistory (1975)
Large portions of the world once were occupied by human populations subsisting by hunting, fishing and the gathering of wild plants. Archeologists have long been interested in understanding and explaining the life ways of these prehistoric populations. Human cultural evolution having proceeded as it did, almost no written records exist that report on human populations pursuing such a way of life in deciduous and boreal forestlands exist. This is unfortunate for ethnographic analogy, when...
Social Distancing In The Woods: Archaeological Expressions Of Isolated Winter Habitations Of Newfoundland’s Early European Fisherfolk (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Northern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Physical separation from friends and family, access to finite provisions and fears of food security in the time of COVID-19 has led many to rethink their priorities, adjust their activities, develop means of coping with isolation, and embrace a DIY attitude. What do historically-similar, non-pandemic related,...