Flipping the Archaic

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 Blackman Stream Site, Central Maine. In Early Holocene Occupation in Northern New England, edited by Brian S. Robinson, James B. Petersen, and Ann S. Robinson, pp. 149-161. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology, Vol. 9. Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta.
• Petersen, James B. 1991. Archaeological testing at the Sharrow site : a deeply stratified early to late Holocene cultural sequence in central Maine. Occasional publications in Maine archaeology, Vol. no 8. Maine Archaeological Society : Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, Me.
• Black, David W. 1997. A Native Artifact from the Ocean Floor Near Indian Island. Fieldnotes: The Journal of the New Brunswick Archaeological Society 3(2):5-7.
• Sanger, David. 2009. "Foraging for Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the Gulf of Maine." In Painting with a Broad Brush: Papers in Honor of James V. Wright, edited by David L. Keenlyside and Jean-Luc Pilon, 1-36. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Hit Pieces

Surovell, Todd A., César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M. Thompson, and Claudio Latorre. 2026. A mid-Holocene age for Monte Verde challenges the timeline of human colonization of South America. Science 391(6791):1283-1288. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9217

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke