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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Watson. Nathan Hamilton. Robin Hadlock Seeley.

Interactions between traditional European culinary practices and North American fauna have been the focus of several archaeological studies during the past few decades, but have not been explicitly examined in northern New England, especially during later colonial occupation (ca. 1800-1900). The Laighton hotel on Smuttynose Island (Isles of Shoals, ME), site of nineteenth- and twentieth-century activity, reveals how domestic practices were changed during the later hotel era (1847-1914)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Scholl. Kimberly Smith. Kerry González.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early EuroAmerican settlement of the Kennebec River Valley in Maine above the Waterville area settlement did not occur until the late eighteenth century. This region of the state of Maine was still considered frontier land until this general time period. Early settlers were initially tied to the river for commerce and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bonnie D. Newsom. Michael Scott. Alice Kelley. Katherine Allen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous shell heaps along the coast of Maine preserve a cultural and environmental record spanning millennia; however, climate change-related sea level rise and increased storm intensity and frequency are destroying sites at an alarming rate. To document and monitor site loss, an...