Ceramic Period Maine

Native people have lived in the area now called maine for many thousands of years.

Ceramic period maine.

Masters thesis memorial university of newfoundland. Your admission fees donations membership and shop purchases support education exhibits and collections care. And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time. Sign in view cart help.

Hunter gatherer estuarine adaptations in the st. Archaeologists call the last 2800 to 3000 years or so of maine pre contact culture the ceramic period. The upper damariscotta river is famous for its enormous oyster shell heaps also called middens. By artifacts and faunal material from six ceramic period shell midden sites located in the st.

Manufacturing techniques appear to remain similar however. This sherd specimen is decorated with linear incision linear. English pdf migrated pdf a conversion from original format. Ceramic period linear incised pottery sherd the most recent prehistoric maine pottery tends to have much thinner walls than do earlier pots.

An analysis of stemmed biface morphology. Vessels were sometimes collared and vessel form was often less conical. This study reveals that ceramic period coastal hunter gatherers in maine used an assortment. Ceramic period occupation of the central maine coast.

The abbe museum is a private non profit. 1989 the archaic ceramic period transition in new brunswick and maine. George river estuary in maine. The information that we have indicates that a paper copy may be located at maine historic preservation commission augusta.

Another technological change occurred at about 2800 years ago as maine native americans adopted or borrowed from further south along the atlantic coast the making of fired clay pottery. Make offer pair vintage andersen design studio art pottery birds fledgling robin wren maine. Submit correction comment requires login. Native americans created the middens over a period of about a thousand years between 2 200 and 1 000 years ago.