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Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies

A Gulf Of Maine Perspective

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Bruce J. Bourque

    1. Maine State Museum, Augusta
      Bates College, Lewiston

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Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-11

  3. The Turner Farm Site

    Pages 13-19

  4. Methods and Techniques

    Pages 21-31

  5. Occupation 1

    Pages 33-39

  6. Occupation 2

    Pages 41-95

  7. Occupation 3

    Pages 97-167

  8. Occupation 4

    Pages 169-222

  9. Implications of the Turner Farm Site for Eastern North American Prehistory

    Pages 223-259

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 261-414
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About this book

New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another director of the Peabody, Jeffries Wyman, spawned some real interest in the shellheaps of the Maine coast, but that did not last very long. Twentieth-century New England archaeology, specifically in Maine, was--for its first fifty years--rather low key too, with short-lived but important activity by Arlo and Oric (a Bates Harvard student) prior to World War Later, I. another Massachusetts institution, the Peabody Foundation at Andover, took some minor but responsible steps toward further understanding of the area's prehistoric past.

Reviews

`An impressive piece of work...This is nothing less than good, solid archaeological research.'
Journal of Field Archaeology, 1998

`Bourque's careful review of the intellectual history of previous scenarios of the past in the Northeast and beyond is well laid out for all to see....Give the book a good read; I trust you will enjoy it as much as I did.'
from the Foreword by Stepen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, Emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Maine State Museum, Augusta

    Bruce J. Bourque

  • Bates College, Lewiston

    Bruce J. Bourque

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies

  • Book Subtitle: A Gulf Of Maine Perspective

  • Authors: Bruce J. Bourque

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b102300

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44874-4Due: 31 May 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7022-3Published: 22 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-27574-1Published: 04 September 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 414

  • Number of Illustrations: 200 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology

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