The Far Northeast - by Kenneth R Holyoke & M Gabriel Hrynick (Paperback)

About the Book

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact synthesizes archaeological research covering the period from 3000 BP to European contact in the Far Northeast of North America. Focusing on intra- and inter-regional cultural connections, this collective work offers an in-depth case study of hunter-gatherer lifeways.

Book Synopsis

The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact is the first volume to synthesize archaeological research from across Atlantic Canada and northern New England for the period spanning from 3000 years ago to European contact.

Recently, notions of the "Woodland period" in the broader Northeast have drawn scrutiny from experts due to increasing awareness that its hallmarks--such as horticulture, village formation, mortuary ceremonialism, and the advent of various technologies--appear to be less synchronous than once thought.

By paying particular attention to the Far Northeast and its unique (yet sometimes marginal) position in Woodland discourse, this work offers a much-needed in-depth look at one of the best-documented cases of hunter-gatherer persistence and adaptation at the eve of European contact.

Penned by academic, government, and cultural-resource-management archaeologists, the seventeen chapters in The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact draw on decades of research in considering this period, both in terms of variability within the region, and integration with broader cultural patterns in the Northeast and beyond.

About the Author

Kenneth R. Holyoke (Editor)
Kenneth R. Holyoke received his MA from the University of New Brunswick in 2012 and has worked in CRM throughout Canada for over a decade. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Ken's research focuses on lithic technology, quarrying, sourcing, exchange, place-making, and hunter-gatherer archaeology in the Northeast. He has published on Maritime Peninsula pre-contact history and lithic technology in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Mercury Series.

M. Gabriel Hrynick (Editor)
M. Gabriel Hrynick is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick, External Research Associate at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His research focuses on coastal hunter-gatherers. He is the co-author of The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast (University of Toronto Press). His PhD is from the University of Connecticut.