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- Title
Cascades 5, une composante de la tradition de l'Archaïque du Golfe du Maine à East Angus, Estrie, Québec.
- Authors
Chapdelaine, Claude; Graillon, Éric; Courchesne, François; Turmel, Marie-Claude; Forget Brisson, Laurence; Hardy, François; Lamothe, Michel; Burke, Adrian
- Abstract
The Saint-François River Valley was occupied starting 10 000 years ago by hunters of the Plano culture. The Cascades 5 site contributes to fill a cultural void between 8000 and 10 000 years ago with an Early Archaic component. The depth of the artifacts required the input of a pedologist to confirm the existence of a buried soil horizon. The material culture shows striking similarities with assemblages belonging to the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition. A clear dominance of unifacial tools, mostly produced on quartz, characterizes the Cascades 5 site assemblage, which can be dated to around 10 000 years ago based on an optically stimulated luminescence date obtained from a fire-cracked rock. An adaptation to the resources of the interior of northern Maine and the Saint- François River Valley during warm months supports an image of strong contacts and a network that crossed the Boundary Mountains. These groups shared technological choices, a lithic source network of rhyolites confirmed by geoarchaeology, and probably other cultural traits that have left no traces on these archaeological sites.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); ESTRIE (Quebec); GULF of Maine; SAINT Francis River Valley (Quebec); ARCHAIC cultures (Americas); NATIVE Americans; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; INTERDISCIPLINARY research; MATERIAL culture; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 2/3, p93
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038044ar