Basques (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the centuries before Europeans arrived in their lands, Indigenous societies around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence gradually renounced the long-distance exchange and mobility that had characterised their more distant past. Beginning in the Middle Woodland period, we may infer...
Early Basque Presence In The Gulf Of Maine: First Results And Future Research Threads (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New research suggests an early Basque fishing, whaling and trading presence in the Gulf of Maine. Aided by historical place-names and a reexamination of archaeological collections in Maine, we searched for other tangible indicators of a Basque presence in the area. The existence of an island named Placentia in the Penobscot Estuary casts a new light on the provenance of the...