Sphere and There in the Early Woodland

If you, like us, have ever been bewildered by the Early Woodland, this is the show for you. This week we’re joined by Dr. Jess Robinson, the Vermont State Archaeologist, and while "The radiocarbon dates are not voluminous", his knowledge about the Early Woodland is. A maple creemee is of course different from an ice cream, but is Middlesex the same as Adena? And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for one show, he teases a future research project on the material culture of Vermont’s maple industry.

Show Notes

Robinson IV, Francis W. “Jess”. 2015. “The initiation and maintenance of the Early Woodland interaction sphere (ca. 3,000-2,000 B.P.) : the view from six northeastern mortuary sites”

https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/1489/

Ritchie, William A. (Bill). 1944. “The pre-Iroquoian occupations of New York State”, https://archive.org/details/preiroquoianoccu00ritc/page/n5/mode/2up

Fiedel, Stuart J. 2001. What happened in the Early Woodland? Archaeology of Eastern North America 29:101-142.

Turnbull, Christopher J. 1976. The Augustine Site: A Mound from the Maritimes. Archaeology of Eastern North America. Archaeology of Eastern North America 4:50-62.

Hit Pieces

Holyoke, K. R., et al. (2025). "Diagnostic Late Palaeoindian Lanceolate Projectile Points from New Brunswick, Canada." PaleoAmerica : a journal of early human migration and dispersal: 1–12.

Alex, Bridget, Jenny Ji, and Rowan Flad. 2025. "Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research." Science Advances 11 (27): eadt5435. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt5435 . https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/sciadv.adt5435

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