About this episode

The episode discusses the Archaic period in New Brunswick with guests David Black and Josh Cummings, focusing on recent research and intertidal collections.

This fortnight your hosts are joined by David Black and Josh Cummings to talk about the Archaic period in New Brunswick. We also enjoyed some piping hot mugs of colonial flip. Our guests walk us through the current state of Archaic period research in New Brunswick, and then catch us up on the results of some of their recent collections research on intertidal collections. Show Notes Black, D.W., and J.A. Cummings 2025. “...gathering pebbles on a boundless shore...”—The Rum Beach Site and Intertidal Archaeology in the Canadian Quoddy Region (third iteration/definitive edition). UNB Libraries, Scholar Research Repository. Link: https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/items/11515990-9c7a-459b-8869-f81aeb7fcbd1 Cummings, J.A., and D.W. Black 2024. Evidence for Late Maritime Archaic period occupations in interior riverine New Brunswick. Available online: https://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/_assets/documents/anth/late-archaic.pdf Black, D.W., and E.L. Hubert 2020. The Birch Islands Cache: Unusual Moorehead Burial Tradition Flaked Stone Assemblage. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 60(2):9–33. Sanger, David, William R. Belcher, and Douglas C. Kellogg. 1992 . Early Holocene Occupation at the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Gabe Hrynick, Ken Holyoke

Guests: David Black, Josh Cummings

Topics covered

• Archaic period
• New Brunswick archaeology
• intertidal collections
• colonial flip
• research findings

Keywords

• Archaic period
• New Brunswick
• archaeology
• intertidal collections
• colonial flip

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UNB Libraries, Maine Archaeological Society, Maine Historic Preservation Commission

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