Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
910983583
Author
Gilbert, Colin Drew,1978-
Title
The archaeology of the Deer Island Point site (BfDr5), Charlotte County, New Brunswick.
Degree
M.A. -- University of New Brunswick, 2011
Publisher
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2013]
©2011
Description
4 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
<?Pub Inc> The prehistoric archaeology of Deer Island is poorly understood, and has been subject to little archaeological research, despite Deer Island being the largest island in the Quoddy Region, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. This thesis presents a comprehensive archaeological analysis of the Deer Island Point site (BfDr5), a multi-component archaeological site located on the southern tip of Deer Island. This study explores the potential of collaboration with avocational archaeologists and analyzing surface-collected artifact assemblages. Additionally, this study explores the cultural landscape of the ancestral ' Peskotomuhkatiyik' (Passamaquoddy Native People), through the analysis of cultural information gathered from recorded oral histories, place-name studies, and the published literature on the traditional lifestyle of the ' Peskotomuhkatiyik'. The archaeological field research conducted during 2005 examined the eastern extent of the Deer Island Point site, and included the excavation of three intact hearth features and numerous associated artifacts. One of these features represents the first known land-based Terminal Archaic component on the Canadian side of the Quoddy Region. The cultural layers at the Deer Island Point site are characterized by a high density of lithic artifacts, including a wide diversity of local and exotic toolstones, and a near absence of shell. The artifact assemblages from this site provide evidence for the use of the site from the Late and Terminal Archaic periods, through the Woodland period, to the Historic period (ca. 4000 BP - Seventeenth Century). In this thesis, I present interpretations of the Deer Island Point site as having been a portage route and beacon campsite, used by Native People primarily to avoid the 'Mocinikosk' (the Old Sow Whirlpool).
ISBN
9780494891247
0494891246