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- Title
Portages and Lithic Procurement in the Northeastern Interior: A Case Study from the Mill Brook Stream Site, Lower Saint John River Valley, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Authors
Holyoke, Kenneth R.; Hrynick, M. Gabriel
- Abstract
Researchers have recognized the importance of portage routes to Pre-contact Aboriginal people in the Northeast of North America since the late nineteenth century. However, little explicit attention has been paid to identifying and interpreting possible archaeological signatures for portage routes. Here we offer the Mill Brook Stream site as a component of a portage which provided a two-way link to Washademoak Lake, the source for Washademoak Multi-coloured Chert, w'ith New Brunswick's Lower Saint John River Valley. We analyze the site in terms of its geographic criteria, its location in relation to the end of canoe navigability, and through the use of a heat-treating experiment. We draw analogies between Historic period accounts of portages and archaeological evidence at Mill Brook Stream; combined, this information is used to outline a correlate for portage-related sites associated with bulk procurement. To facilitate this discussion, we include a glossary of terms to describe portages and portage-related activities.
- Subjects
NEW Brunswick; SAINT John River Valley (Me. &; N.B.); CANADA; STONE implements; PORTAGES; PREHISTORIC tools; CANOES &; canoeing; FIRST Nations antiquities; HISTORY; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 2015, Vol 39, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0705-2006
- Publication type
Case Study