Recent Insights into Protohistoric Foodways in the Northern Quoddy Region of the Northeast

Summary

Despite more than a century of archaeological research in the Quoddy Region of southwestern New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritime Provinces, the protohistoric and early contact periods in this area have remained obscure. However, recent research at several sites has begun to illuminate this period, and like many of the precedent Woodland period sites (prior to 500 BP), many of these newly studied protohistoric sites have produced shell-bearing components, and contain a wealth of information on the integration of foodways and settlement, including site intensity and season of habitation. In this paper, we report on recent research at one of these sites, BgDs25, located along the northern mainland of the Quoddy Region, integrating an analysis of faunal remains as a means of gaining insight into Pestomakati food and lifeways, and to add to a growing body of primary research.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22110