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Early Basque Presence In The Gulf Of Maine: First Results And Future Research Threads (2020)
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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...