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Stratigraphic Architecture Of Pozuelo Mounds As Revealed By Earth Resistivity Tomography, Caeli Connolly
Stratigraphic Architecture Of Pozuelo Mounds As Revealed By Earth Resistivity Tomography, Caeli Connolly
Honors College
This study is a geoarchaeological analysis using earth resistance tomography (ERT) surveys of two of four mounds at Pozuelo (Formative Period, cal yr 3000 BP) in the Chincha Valley of coastal, southern Peru. Layers identified in the subsurface were to determine the presence or absence of regional continuity between the mounds. This effort is part of a larger investigation examining the paleoenvironmental setting of the site, and its influence on site location and use. Ten earth resistance tomography profiles were collected using an ABEM Terrameter LS2 and 81 pin array. These profiles were then topographically corrected using topographic survey data …
Creación De Un Seminario Basado En La Equidad De Contenido Y Formato: Un Estudio De Caso Y Un Llamado A La Acción, Elizabeth L. Leclerc, Emily Blackwood, Kit M. Hamley, Frankie St. Amand, Heather A. Landázuri, Madeleine Landrum, Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Monica Barnes, Kristina Douglass, Maria Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Creación De Un Seminario Basado En La Equidad De Contenido Y Formato: Un Estudio De Caso Y Un Llamado A La Acción, Elizabeth L. Leclerc, Emily Blackwood, Kit M. Hamley, Frankie St. Amand, Heather A. Landázuri, Madeleine Landrum, Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Monica Barnes, Kristina Douglass, Maria Gutiérrez, Sarah Herr, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Creación de un seminario basado en la equidad de contenido y formato: Un estudio de caso y un llamado a la acción
Creating a Seminar Based on Content and Format Equity: A Case Study and Call to Action
A Practical Solution: The Anthropocene Is A Geological Event, Not A Formal Epoch, Philip L. Gibbard, Andrew M. Bauer, Matthew Edgeworth, William F. Ruddiman, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Dorothy J. Merritts, Stanley C. Finney, Lucy E. Edwards, Michael J. C. Walker, Mark Maslin, Erle C. Ellis
A Practical Solution: The Anthropocene Is A Geological Event, Not A Formal Epoch, Philip L. Gibbard, Andrew M. Bauer, Matthew Edgeworth, William F. Ruddiman, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Dorothy J. Merritts, Stanley C. Finney, Lucy E. Edwards, Michael J. C. Walker, Mark Maslin, Erle C. Ellis
Biology and Ecology Faculty Scholarship
The Anthropocene has yet to be defined in a way that is functional both to the international geological community and to the broader fields of environmental and social sciences. Formally defining the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphical series and geochronological epoch with a precise global start date would drastically reduce the Anthropocene’s utility across disciplines. Instead, we propose the Anthropocene be defined as a geological event, thereby facilitating a robust geological definition linked with a scholarly framework more useful to and congruent with the many disciplines engaging with human-environment interactions. Unlike formal epochal definitions, geological events can recognize the spatial and …
In Conversation With The Ancestors: Indigenizing Archaeological Narratives At Acadia National Park, Maine, Bonnie D. Newsom, Natalie D. Lolar, Isaac St. John
In Conversation With The Ancestors: Indigenizing Archaeological Narratives At Acadia National Park, Maine, Bonnie D. Newsom, Natalie D. Lolar, Isaac St. John
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
In North America, Indigenous pasts are publicly understood through narratives constructed by archaeologists who bring Western ideologies to bear on their inquiries. The resulting Eurocentric presentations of Indigenous pasts shape public perceptions of Indigenous peoples and influence Indigenous perceptions of self and of archaeology. In this paper we confront Eurocentric narratives of Indigenous pasts, specifically Wabanaki pasts, by centering an archaeological story on relationality between contemporary and past Indigenous peoples. We focus on legacy archaeological collections and eroding heritage sites in Acadia National Park, Maine. We present the “Red Paint People” myth as an example of how Indigenous pasts become …
How To Record Current Events Like An Archaeologist, Matthew Magnani, Anatolijs Venovcevs, Stein Farstadvoll, Natalia Magnani
How To Record Current Events Like An Archaeologist, Matthew Magnani, Anatolijs Venovcevs, Stein Farstadvoll, Natalia Magnani
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
This article shows how to record current events from an archaeological perspective. With a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway, we provide accessible tools to document broad spatial and behavioral patterns through material culture as they emerge. Stressing the importance of ethical engagement with contemporary subjects, we adapt archaeological field methods—including geolocation, photography, and three-dimensional modeling—to analyze the changing relationships between materiality and human sociality through the crisis. Integrating data from four contributors, we suggest that this workflow may engage broader publics as anthropological data collectors to describe unexpected social phenomena. Contemporary archaeological perspectives, deployed in rapid response, …
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 5, Harbour Mitchell Iii
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 5, Harbour Mitchell Iii
Maine History Documents
In light of the overall amount of information gathered in two years of testing, and in an effort to make it as reader-friendly as possible, this report is comprised of five parts, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, each being a separate volume. Each part represents a stand-alone section of the whole, with its own Table of Contents, Table of Figures, and Introduction.
Part 5 includes: Executive Summary; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; and Appendices A-D.
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 3, Harbour Mitchell Iii
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 3, Harbour Mitchell Iii
Maine History Documents
In light of the overall amount of information gathered in two years of testing, and in an effort to make it as reader-friendly as possible, this report is comprised of five parts, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, each being a separate volume. Each part represents a stand-alone section of the whole, with its own Table of Contents, Table of Figures, and Introduction.
Part 3 includes: Executive Summary; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; Introduction; Soil Stratigraphy; Archaeological Stratigraphy; Features; Cultural Materials.
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 4, Harbour Mitchell Iii
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 4, Harbour Mitchell Iii
Maine History Documents
In light of the overall amount of information gathered in two years of testing, and in an effort to make it as reader-friendly as possible, this report is comprised of five parts, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, each being a separate volume. Each part represents a stand-alone section of the whole, with its own Table of Contents, Table of Figures, and Introduction.
Part 4 includes: Executive Summary; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; Introduction; Cultural Material Spatial Distribution; Conclusions; and References Cited.
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 2, Harbour Mitchell Iii
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 2, Harbour Mitchell Iii
Maine History Documents
In light of the overall amount of information gathered in two years of testing, and in an effort to make it as reader-friendly as possible, this report is comprised of five parts, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, each being a separate volume. Each part represents a stand-alone section of the whole, with its own Table of Contents, Table of Figures, and Introduction.
Part 2 includes: Executive Summary; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; Introduction; Archaeological Rationale, Context, and Protocol.
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 1, Harbour Mitchell Iii
The Archaeology Of Merryspring Nature Center: The Asa Hosmer Farm (Me 073.014) And The Lt. Benjamin Burton Militia Encampment (Me 073.015), Part 1, Harbour Mitchell Iii
Maine History Documents
In light of the overall amount of information gathered in two years of testing, and in an effort to make it as reader-friendly as possible, this report is comprised of five parts, Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, each being a separate volume. Each part represents a stand-alone section of the whole, with its own Table of Contents, Table of Figures, and Introduction.
Part 1 includes: Executive Summary; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Table of Figures; Introduction; Geographical and Geological Context; Historic Background; Historic Ownership of Lot 71; and Regional Archaeological Context.
Other Fish In The Sea: Black Sea Bass (Centropristis Striata) And Evidence For Past Environmental Change In The Archaeological Record, Brianna Ballard
Other Fish In The Sea: Black Sea Bass (Centropristis Striata) And Evidence For Past Environmental Change In The Archaeological Record, Brianna Ballard
Honors College
This research examines archaeological fish remains from the Gulf of Maine as indicators of past climate change. Archaeological research has shown that between ca. 5,000 and 3,800 years ago, swordfish were present in coastal Maine waters indicating warmer ocean temperatures. To date, little research has explored the presence of other warm water fish species in the Gulf of Maine at that time. In this study, I examine archaeological samples from the Waterside Shell Midden (44-7) in Sorrento, Maine to identify Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) within the site’s faunal collection. My work complements Sky Heller’s doctoral research on the relationship …
The Digital Revolution To Come: Photogrammetry In Archaeological Practice, Matthew Magnani, Matthew Douglass, Whittaker Schroder, Jonathan Reeves, David R. Braun
The Digital Revolution To Come: Photogrammetry In Archaeological Practice, Matthew Magnani, Matthew Douglass, Whittaker Schroder, Jonathan Reeves, David R. Braun
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
The three-dimensional (3D) revolution promised to transform archaeological practice. Of the technologies that contribute to the proliferation of 3D data, photogrammetry facilitates the rapid and inexpensive digitization of complex subjects in both field and lab settings. It finds additional use as a tool for public outreach, where it engages audiences ranging from source communities to artifact collectors. But what has photogrammetry’s function been in advancing archaeological analysis? Drawing on our previous work, we review recent applications to understand the role of photogrammetry for contemporary archaeologists. Although photogrammetry is widely used as a visual aid, its analytical potential remains underdeveloped. Considering …
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Projekti Arkeolojike i Shkodres (PASH) conducted five years of interdiciplinary, diachronic field research (2010-2014) in the Northern Albanian region of Shkoder, targeting the plain and hills that ring Shkodra Lake. The project was designed to address changes in landscape, settlement, and land use, beginning in prehistory. Intensive archaeological survey of 16 square kilometers identified 15 sites of all periods, many of them multicomponent, and 175 prehistoric burial mounds. Four mounds and three sites were targeted for test excavations, allowing the beginnings of a regional absolute chronology. A program of geological coring is helping to clarify the varying size of …
Adult Scurvy In New France: Samuel De Champlain's "Mal De La Terre" At Saint Croix Island, 1604-1605, Thomas A. Crist, Marcella H. Sorg
Adult Scurvy In New France: Samuel De Champlain's "Mal De La Terre" At Saint Croix Island, 1604-1605, Thomas A. Crist, Marcella H. Sorg
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Early Human Settlement Of The High-Altitude Pucuncho Basin, Southern Peruvian Andes, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kurt Rademaker
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Early Human Settlement Of The High-Altitude Pucuncho Basin, Southern Peruvian Andes, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kurt Rademaker
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Under the direction of Dr. Daniel Sandweiss, Mr. Kurt Rademaker will collect data for his doctoral dissertation research. His project focuses on determining the timing of early human occupation in the Andes Mountains. Human settlement of Earth's high-altitude mountains and plateaus is among the most recent of our species' bio-geographic expansions. Current anthropological models emphasize the physiographic and biological challenges inherent to these extreme environments to explain a lack of pre-11,000 year-old archaeological evidence above 3500 m elevation in the Andes and on the high Tibetan Plateau. However few archaeological studies targeting hunter-gatherer sites have been conducted in these areas. …
July 1827 Penobscot Letter, Pauleena Macdougall
July 1827 Penobscot Letter, Pauleena Macdougall
Sample Letters
This is a letter written in the Penobscot Language in July of 1827. Does not have a translation.
Problems And Prospects In The Penobscot Dictionary, Conor Quinn
Problems And Prospects In The Penobscot Dictionary, Conor Quinn
Documents
This is a working paper which discusses Frank Siebert's research on the Penobscot Dictionary Project, which started in the 1980's. The project has seen a recent resurgence of effort to complete the work and bring fruition to the concept of the Penobscot Dictionary.
Old Town Letter Written In Penobscot Language, Pauleena Macdougall
Old Town Letter Written In Penobscot Language, Pauleena Macdougall
Sample Letters
This is a letter with Old Town as its subject, written in the Penobscot Language.
Health Impacts At The Advent Of Agriculture, Erin L. Snape
Health Impacts At The Advent Of Agriculture, Erin L. Snape
Honors College
The transition from a hunting and gathering lifestyle to one based in agriculture may have been the most crucial development made by past peoples, transforming not only diet, but social structure, mobility, and resource use. I present human skeletal evidence illustrating the consequences of agriculture on human health using case studies from prehistoric Mesoamerica, the American southwest, and regions in Asia. Such evidence has indicated that intensification of maize agriculture in the New World correlates with increased infant mortality rate, dental caries, iron-deficiency anemia, and an overall decline in general health while these health problems have little to no correlation …
Frank Gouldsmith Speck Collection Index Of Penobscot Materials, Pauleena Macdougall
Frank Gouldsmith Speck Collection Index Of Penobscot Materials, Pauleena Macdougall
Field Notes/Notebooks
No abstract provided.
Centuries Of Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Variation Within Archaeological Mesodesma Donacium Shells From Southern Peru, Kevin B. Jones, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Miguel F. Etayo-Cadavid, C. Fred T. Andrus, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Centuries Of Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Age Variation Within Archaeological Mesodesma Donacium Shells From Southern Peru, Kevin B. Jones, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Miguel F. Etayo-Cadavid, C. Fred T. Andrus, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Mollusk shells provide brief (<5 yr per shell) records of past marine conditions, including marine radiocarbon reservoir age (R) and upwelling. We report 21 14C ages and R calculations on small (~2 mg) samples from 2 Mesodesma donacium (surf clam) shells. These shells were excavated from a semi-subterranean house floor stratum 14C dated to 7625 ± 35 BP at site QJ-280, Quebrada Jaguay, southern Peru. The ranges in marine 14C ages (and thus R) from the 2 shells are 530 and 170 14C yr; R from individual aragonite samples spans 130 ± 60 to 730 ± 170 14C yr. This intrashell 14C variability suggests that 14C dating of small (time-slice much less than 1 yr) marine samples from a variable-R (i.e. variable-upwelling) environment may introduce centuries of chronometric uncertainty.
Testing For Paleoindian Aggregations: Internal Site Structure At Bull Brook, Brian S. Robinson
Testing For Paleoindian Aggregations: Internal Site Structure At Bull Brook, Brian S. Robinson
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Paleoindian research provides the earliest substantial evidence of how people coped with Late Pleistocene environmental fluctuations and low population density, while sharing aspects of culture across North America. From about 11,000 radiocarbon years ago, the well known fluted projectile points are highly visible but often scarce, which turns out to be a good combination for some research. The distribution of sites, artifact clusters and exotic raw materials provide unusually clear evidence of settlement pattern, in part because they are not blurred by abundance. The largest Paleoindian sites in the Northeast are often composed of separate clusters of artifacts (hut locations?) …
Peruvian Beach Ridges: Records Of Human Activity And Climate Change, David A. Reid
Peruvian Beach Ridges: Records Of Human Activity And Climate Change, David A. Reid
Honors College
Among the many unusual features of the desert coast of northern Peru are the five major beach-ridge sets: Santa (9˚S), Piura (5˚30' S), Colán (5˚S), Chira (4˚50' S), and Tumbes (3˚40’ S). These features of the landscape began forming after 5800 cal yr B.P., initiated by severe El Niño and seismic events. Archaeological remains on the beach-ridge sets of Santa, Colán, and Chira provide evidence of local prehistoric peoples. The extent of prehistoric occupation and utilization of beach ridges varied due to environmental limitations influenced by beach-ridge substrate material, local paleoenvironments, and climate-change events.
Some Observations On The Penobscot Writing Of Joseph Polis (1809-1884), Pauleena Macdougall
Some Observations On The Penobscot Writing Of Joseph Polis (1809-1884), Pauleena Macdougall
Papers on the Penobscot Language
This article, written by Penobscot Dictionary Project Team Member, Pauleena MacDougall, reflects on the ideas set forth at the 32 Algonquian Conference in Montreal. The article discusses her observations on the Penobscot writings of Joseph Polis.
Clues To Paleoindian Survival: Underwater Caches My Have Supplied Meat In Winter, Kimberly Sawtelle
Clues To Paleoindian Survival: Underwater Caches My Have Supplied Meat In Winter, Kimberly Sawtelle
Anthropology Student Scholarship
Dr. Daniel C. Fisher of University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences has found intriguing new information at the Heisler and other sites concerning Paleoindian food-caching behavior. New lines of evidence suggest Paleoindian peoples stored meat from proboscideans by anchoring under water in ponds.
Mastodont Hair Gives Clues To Habitat, Kimberly Sawtelle
Mastodont Hair Gives Clues To Habitat, Kimberly Sawtelle
Anthropology Student Scholarship
Two samples of preserved mastodont hair and soft tissue found at the Milwaukee Mastodont site could shed new light on the paleoecology of Mammut americanum and how this animal related to its natural habitat.
Dialect Symbols In Aubrey's Dictionary, Pauleena Macdougall
Dialect Symbols In Aubrey's Dictionary, Pauleena Macdougall
Papers on the Penobscot Language
MacDougall's article discusses the translation of Aubery's Abenaki Dictionary and its representation of the Penobscot culture, society, and language.
The Penobscot Dictionary Project: Preferences And Problems Of Format, Presentation, And Entry, Frank T. Siebert
The Penobscot Dictionary Project: Preferences And Problems Of Format, Presentation, And Entry, Frank T. Siebert
Documents
The Penobscot language has been obsolescent for over twenty-five years or more. A rather large body of rnaterial has been gathered at irregular periods, but the labor and cost of assemblage, organization, and presentation have been awesome. A recent grant through the Penobscot Nation to Frank Siebert from the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities is duly acknowledged to provide the funds to complete the task and to furnish the required secretarial aid.
Penobscot Transformer Tales, Frank G. Speck
Penobscot Transformer Tales, Frank G. Speck
Articles
This article describes part of a collection of mythological texts obtained from and dictated by Newell Lion of the Penobscot tribe at Oldtown Maine to Frank G Speck.
Penobscot Response Treaty, Pauleena Macdougall
Penobscot Response Treaty, Pauleena Macdougall
Sample Letters
This letter, written in the Penobscot Language, represents a Penobscot Response Treaty from August 6, 1790.