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- Title
A LATE MARITIME WOODLAND PERIOD DWELLING FEATURE FROM NOVA SCOTIA'S SOUTH SHORE: EVIDENCE FOR PATTERNED USE OF DOMESTIC SPACE.
- Authors
Hrynick, M. Gabriel; Betts, Matthew W.; Black, David W.
- Abstract
Prehistoric dwelling features have been recognized in coastal archaeological sites on the Maritime Peninsula since the nineteenth century. However, detailed, horizontal, feature-oriented excavations of dwelling features from the region are rare. As a result, archaeological understanding of prehistoric use of domestic space remains nascent. Here we report a recent high-resolution excavation of a later Late Maritime Woodland (660±40 B.P.) dwelling feature at Port Joli Harbour, Nova Scotia. We interpret this feature as a complex palimpsest representing multiple reoccupations of an optimal location for a coastal dwelling. Despite the complexity of the occupation history, we believe that intra-feature artifact distributions reveal persistent use-differentiation of the space within the feature, perhaps reflecting patterns of gender-differentiated use of space recorded in ethnohistoric accounts of Wababaki dwellings.
- Subjects
NOVA Scotia; PREHISTORIC dwellings; COASTAL archaeology; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; DOMESTIC space
- Publication
Archaeology of Eastern North America, 2012, Vol 40, p1
- ISSN
0360-1021
- Publication type
Article