The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast Gabe Hrynick and Ken Holyoke

This fortnight, the Northeast is engulfed in a heat wave and Alberta has returned to periglacial conditions. Gabe is therefore on assignment poolside while Ken stokes the fire and says a prayer for his tomatillos. Whether you’re in a daiquiri or a hot toddy setting today, get ready to change latitude and change attitude as the NB Archaeology Podcast goes south of the border. In the latest installment of our Great Sites series, we’re joined by Arthur Anderson of the University of New England to tell us all about Maine site 5.06 or the village of Chouacoët. 5.06 is the so-called village described by Champlain in 1605, but Arthur’s recent work there suggests some 2000 years of Indigenous occupation at the site, and complicates archaeological understanding about what a village should look like.
Great Citations:
Anderson, Arthur W. 2022. The village of Chouacoët and the ceramic and protohistoric periods on Saco Bay, Maine. In The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Present (pp.507-521). Canadian Museum of History Mercury Series, eds. Kenneth R. Holyoke and M. Gabriel Hrynick. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Baker, Emerson W. 2004. Finding the Almouchiquois: Native American families, territories, and land sales in southern Maine. Ethnohistory 51(1):73-100.
Leveillee, Alan, Joseph N. Waller Jr., and Donna Ingham. 2006 Dispersed Villages in Late Woodland Period South-Coastal Rhode Island. Archaeology of Eastern North America 34:71-89.
Lore, Robert J. 2006. Adaptations in the Edge Environment: Faunal Analysis of an Armouchiquois Indian Village. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 46(1):1-22.
Spahr, Tim. 2019. Northeast Algonquin Weir Remains at Redin Island: Comparing Local Features to Historic Illustrations. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 59(1):1-20.
And check out:
Holyoke, K.R., and M.G. Hrynick. 2024. Podcasting and Public Archaeology: the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast. The SAA Archaeological Record 24(3):11–17.
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Content Warning: this episode deals with sensitive topics like drug use and sexual harassment.
Archaeology is a lot of fun, and it’s even more fun when you aren’t on the business end of a bear bluff charge. In this episode, we are joined by Greer Vanderbyl (22:37), Carol Colaninno (59:53), and Nadine Byers (1:22:43) for big picture advice about field safety. Greer discusses building a culture of safety among your field crew, Carol provides advice for field directors to help combat sexual harassment in the field, and Nadine explains why archaeologists should consider adding Naloxone to their first aid kits. Also - are you a musician or podcaster in need of audio editing and producing? Our incomparable producer, Emanuel Akel (13:36), is looking to expand his portfolio (see details in credits, below).
Byers, Nadine, and Gabe Hrynick. 2023. “A Lifesaving Part of An Archaeologist's First Aid Kit: Naloxone”
Colaninno, Carol E, Shawn P Lambert, Emily L Beahm, Morgan D Tallman, Carl G Drexler, and Clark H Sturdevant. 2024. Cultivating inclusivity: strategies field school directors use to promote safe and supportive field schools. Southeastern Archaeology:1-17.
Greer Vanderbyl Carol ColaninnoSHARPResources for US-Based ArchaeologistsResources for Canadian Based ArchaeologistsNadine ByersHit Pieces:
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We're back a demi-fortnight later than usual to bring you this sonic and gastronomic journey through the Paris of the Prairies. The Award-Winning NB Archaeology Pod travelled to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association in Saskatoon, SK earlier this month an caught up with friends, met new colleagues, and encountered a Peppa Pig singing robot at the Number 1 Noodle House.
We also took home the Public Communications Award (Institutional/Professional) for the CAA this year! So thank you listeners!
Show Notes
Featured interviews:
Alvina Tam (Senior Archaeologist, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority) and Tommy Ng (Partner and Senior Project Archaeologist, Bison Historical Services)Scott Neilsen (Associate Professor, Labrador Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland)Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer (Assistant Professor, University of Calgary) and Matthew Munro (Senior Archaeologist, Independent/Stantec Consulting)Tammi Mills (PhD Candidate, University of Lethbridge)Richard Grubb (American Cultural Resources Association/Vice-President, Richard Grubb & Associates) and Sara Beanlands (Principal/Senior Archaeologist, Boreas Heritage Consulting)Credits
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This fortnight we learned you can take the Loyalist out of the states, but maybe you can’t take the states out of the Loyalist. You certainly can’t take the cannon out of the dooryard. Tune in to hear Dr. David Black tell us about Sam Bliss, the well armed shopkeeper turned soldier turned well-armed Quoddy Region farmer. And it’s not just weapons, Dave will also tell you about what the Blisses ate and raised on his Island. If you’re interested in Loyalists in New Brunswick, this is an important part of the archaeological record, and our second installment of the “Great Sites” series.
Show Notes:
Ashley, Elihu. 2007. Romance, remedies, and revolution : the journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.
Craig, Calvin Lee. 2003. Early families of "the Mackadavy" : settlers before, during, and following the Loyalist period, Magaguadavic Valley, Parish of St. George, Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Self published, but there’s a copy at the UNB library: https://unb.on.worldcat.org/oclc/54415977
“The Colonial Flip, George Washington’s Favorite Drink” The Colonial Flip, George Washington's Favorite Drink (youtube.com)
Obituary and bibliography for John Carl Medcof https://shellfish.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/in%20memoriam%20john%20medcof%20191.pdf
Perley, Moses. 1850. Report on the sea and river fisheries of New Brunswick, within the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and Bay of Chaleur. Fredericton, J. Simpson.
Great Cites:
Black, David W., and Christopher R. Blair. 2000. Faunal Remains from the Loyalist Occupation of the Bliss Islands, Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Ontario Archaeology 69:39-54.
Blair, Christopher. 2013. Looking For Bliss: An Early Loyalist Family in Passamaquoddy Bay. In Underground New Brunswick: Stories of Archaeology, edited by P. Erickson, and J. Fowler, pp. 107-116. Nimbus Publishing, Halifax
Hit Pieces:
Mack, Karen. 2023. The Rumford Falls Ceramic Assemblage and Maine Ceramic Period 2 (CP2) Pottery. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(2):1-42.
Will, Richard, and Karen Mack. 2023. Rumford Falls and Beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Archaic period and Ceramic Period LIthic Debitage Assemblages. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(2):43-60.
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Producer: Emanuel Akel

Do you like art? Do you like rocks? Well have we got the show for you! This fortnight your hosts Ken and Gabe are joined by Bryn Tapper (Memorial University) to discuss Indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs from Maine and the Maritimes. Bryn also discusses the importance of rock art sites for understanding Indigenous landscapes, ontologies, and shamanistic practices.
Show Notes
Bragdon, K. J. (2002). The interstices of literacy: Books and writings and their use in Native American southern New England. In W. L. Merrill and I. Goddard (Eds.). Anthropology, History, and American History: Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant (pp. 121–130). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hedden, Mark H. (2004) Passamaquoddy Shamanism and Rock Art in Machias Bay, Maine. In Rock Art of Eastern North America, edited by C. Diaz-Grandos, and J.R. Duncan, pp. 319-343. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Mallory, Garrick (1894) Picture Writing of the American Indian. Smithsonian Institution–Bureau of Ethnology, Washington.
Molyneaux, Brian L. (1989) Concepts of humans and animals in Post-Contact Micmac rock art. In Animals into Art, edited by H. Morphy, pp. 193-214. One World Archaeology, Vol. 7. Unwin Hyman, Ltd., London.
Robinson, Brian S., and A. Sky Heller (2017) Maritime Culture Patterns and Animal Symbolism in Eastern Maine. Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 10:90-104.
Tapper, Bryn (2020) Exploring Relationality: Perspectives on the Research Narratives of the Rock Art of the Algonquian-Speaking Peoples of Central and Eastern Canada. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27(3):723-744.
Tapper, Bryn, Oscar Moro Abadía, and Dagmara Zawadzka (2020) Representation and meaning in rock art: the case of Algonquian rock images. World Archaeology 52(3):449-462.
Hit Pieces
Newfoundland and Labrador “Provincial Archaeology Office Annual Review 2023” volume 22, https://www.gov.nl.ca/tcar/files/PAO-Review-Vol-22-2023.pdf
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Producer: Emanuel Akel

It’s spooky season here on the New Brunswick Archaeology podcast. We’re joined by Dr. Chris Wolff to talk about his research about fear as an important aspect of societies past and present. He’ll also give you a primer on the archaeology of Newfoundland and Labrador, share some of his recent work at Stock Cove, and discuss how the peopling of Newfoundland fits into a broader understanding of the colonization of North America. And there’s even some bonus content about nuclear fallout shelters and drums!
Show Notes:
The Reformatory: A Novel, by Tanarive Due https://www.tananarivedue.com/
The Shivers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shivers_(Austin,_Texas)
Stephen Graham Jones, “The Only Good Indians” https://www.amazon.ca/Only-Indians-Stephen-Graham-Jones/dp/1982136456
“Sustainability in Ancient and Island Societies”: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069975&fbclid=IwAR2jDWQU1QIXsOJ7w-_lwAOdTniLyRlaawayhNwrZgxrZRZi81Z6YTYbnbE_aem_AWGXJNXC7tyTIy1l9S6oRvjstF7l68BXdGRQ9CICmJu7cIBqp4-QxFNXY59Ia4iiKr_WcrBlkvoFEiZVGnn7xcPK
Hit Pieces:
Jones, Brian (2023) Constraints and Assumptions for Modeling the Paleoindian Colonization of New England. Northeast Anthropology 91-92:1-18.
MacInnes, David (2023) Population Dynamics, Mobility and Pottery Use Among Hunter-Gatherers on the Maritime Peninsula of North America. Northeast Anthropology 91-92:19-51.
McLellan, A. and Woolsey, C.A. (2024) ‘Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries’, American Antiquity. First View article.
Sponsors: APANB and ULeth SSHRC Exchange
Producer: Emanuel Akel