About this episode

The episode discusses the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site and its significance in New Brunswick archaeology with guest Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud.

This fortnight, Ken and Gabe sit down with Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud to discuss one of the most recognizable sites in New Brunswick archaeology, the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site. We delve into George Frederick Clarke, caches, Early Woodland ceremonialism, craft production, and Alex and Gabe come dangerously close to making us the New Brunswick pseudoarchaeology podcast. They're not Solutrean, but they could be leaves. Prepare your offering to Boognish, cause lordy, lordy he’s coming home. Show Notes Clarke, George Frederick. 2016. Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick. Expanded Fourth Edition ed., edited by Mary Bernard. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Chapel Street Editions. Honsinger, Alexander, Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud, Arthur Anderson, M. Gabriel Hrynick, and Hendrik Carroll-Pohls. 2025. "Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of “Quoddy Speckled Mudstone:” a Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine–new Brunswick Quoddy Region." Archaeology of Eastern North America 53: 73-86. Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre. 2018. "The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick." MA, Department of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Gabe Hrynick, Ken Holyoke

Guest: Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud

Topics covered

• Bristol-Shiktehawk Site
• Early Woodland ceremonialism
• New Brunswick archaeology
• craft production
• pseudoarchaeology

Keywords

• Bristol-Shiktehawk
• ceremonialism
• New Brunswick
• archaeology
• George Frederick Clarke

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick, Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of “Quoddy Speckled Mudstone:” a Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine–new Brunswick Quoddy Region, The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick, The Obsidian Blades of California

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