Welcome/Bienvenue/Kulasihkulpon/Pjila'si to the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

In this episode of the NB Archaeology Podcast, Gabe and Ken introduce themselves, their research, New Brunswick in regional archaeological context, and talk a little bit about Palaeoindians (pre-Clovis and Clovis-like), red chert, housefloors, big themes in New Brunswick archaeology, and this week's Hit Pieces.

Show Notes:

Recommended introduction music:

• “Canada Vignettes: Log Driver’s Waltz” at NFB https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/

• “Diggin’ a Hole” by Big Sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6aNnMqmgc

Gabe’s faculty page at the University of New Brunswick: https://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/arts-fr-anthropology/hrynick-gabriel.html

Ken’s faculty page at the University of Lethbridge: https://kenholyoke.academia.edu/

Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast, by Matt Betts and Gabe (U of T Press 2021).

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact, edited by Gabe and Ken (Canadian Museum of History/University of Ottawa Press, 2022).

Holyoke, Blair, and Shaw’s (2020) paper on heat treating and colour: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101229

Brian Robinson on pre-Clovis: Robinson, Brian S. 2012. Culture History, Clovis First and Contributions of The Review of Archaeology. The Review of Archaeology 30:1-12.

“Grand Challenges”/Big Questions in archaeology:

Kintigh et al. (2014): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1324000111

CRM job forecast for the United States: Altschul and Klein (2022): doi:10.1017/aap.2022.18

This Ep’s Hit Pieces:

Kelly et al. (2023) Expanding omnidirectional geospatial modeling for archaeology: A case study of dispersal in a “New England” colonial frontier (ca. 1600–1750). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105710

Davis et al. (2022) Dating of a large tool assemblage at the Cooper’s Ferry site (Idaho, USA), to 15,785 cal yr B.P. extends the age of stemmed points in the Americas. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade1248

Kitchel (2022) Color as a Key Characteristic in the Terminal Pleistocene Fluted-Point-Period Lithic Economy in Northeastern North America. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4227691

Thanks to K. Sock and R. Nicholas for Mi'kmaq and Wolastoqiyik translation of the title.