Late Pleistocene archaeology and ecology in the far Northeast
By: edited by Claude Chapdelaine ; foreword by Christopher Ellis
Contributors: Association des archéologues du Québec
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781603447904; 9781603448055
Subjects: Paleo-Indians; Prehistoric Antiquities; Antiquities; Indians of North America; Prehistoric Land settlement patterns
Notes: Eight contributions adapted from presentations given at a symposium held at the 2009 annual meeting of the Quebec Archaeological Association in Sherbrooke; 2 additional contributions and the introd. written specifically for this book.

"Peopling of the Americas publications"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward the consolidation of a cultural and environmental framework / Claude Chapdelaine and Richard A. Boisvert; title: Regional syntheses; title: Paleoindian occupations in the Hudson Valley, New York / Jonathan C. Lothrop and James W. Bradley; title: Maritime mountaineers: Paleoindian settlement patterns on the west coast of New England / John G. Crock and Francis W. Robinson IV; title: The Paleoindian period in New Hampshire / Richard A. Boisvert; title: Geographic clusters of fluted point sites in the far Northeast / Arthur Spiess, Ellen Cowie, and Robert Bartone; title: Specialized studies; title: New sites and lingering questions at the Debert and Belmont sites, Nova Scotia / Leah Morine Rosenmeier, Scott Buchanan, Ralph Stea, and Gordon Brewster; title: The early Paleoindian occupation at the Cliche-Rancourt site, southeastern Quebec / Claude Chapdelaine; title: The burial of early Paleoindian artifacts in the podzols of the Cliche-Rancourt site, Quebec / François Courchesne, Jacynthe Masse, and Marc Girard; title: The Bull Brook Paleoindian site and Jeffreys Ledge: a gathering place near Caribou Island? / Brian S. Robinson; title: Between the mountains and the sea: an exploration of the Champlain Sea and Paleoindian land use in the Champlain Basin / Francis W. Robinson IV; title: Late Pleistocene to early Holocene adaptation: the case of the Strait of Quebec / Jean-Yves Pintal.