PREHISTORIC OR PRE-EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN MAINE
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED ARTICLES
through Spring 2010
compiled by Arthur Spiess
The Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin last printed a bibliography of published articles containing information on Maine prehistoric archaeology in 1983 (23:2:37-51). There was an update in 1985 (25:2:55). Herein we bring the bibliography current through 2010.
Allison, Roland
1951 Digging and searching the shell heaps of Maine, Algonquin Culture, Eggemoggin Reach, Hancock County, Maine. Ohio Archaeologist 1(1):16
1952 A days dig in a Maine shell heap. Ohio Archaeologist 2(2):78
1953 Shell heap digging in Maine. Ohio Archaeologist 3(4):2729
1972 More about the shell heaps. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 12(2):13.
Anderson, Walter A. and J. Kelly, thers
1984 Crustal Warping in Coastal Maine. Geology 12:677680
Anonymous
1912 Investigations of Maine shellheaps. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 59(11): 4648
Anonymous
1976 Introduction to Artifact Photographs. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 16(2):3242 Ashley,
AschSidell, Nancy
2002Paleoethnobotanical Indicators of Subsistence and Settlement Change in the Northeast. John Hart and Christina Rieth, editors. Northeast Subsistence Settlement Change A.D.7001300, NY State Museum Bulletin 496:241263.
Backman, Dave
1996 The Lady Slipper Midden Site (14.31). Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 36:1:116.
Bailey, Alfred G.
1937 The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures. New Brunswick Museum Monograph Series: 2 St. John
Bailey, L. W.
1887 On relics of the stone age in New Brunswick. Bulletin Natural History Society of New Brunswick, 6
Baker, Emerson W.
1983 The Clarke and Lake Site, 16541676: A Place of Trading As Well As Planting. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology 4. Augusta, Maine.
Baker, Thomas R.
1989 Phase I Archaeological Investigations Conducted Along the Proposed CMP Transmission Tie to the HydroQuebec Corridor. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 29:1:1320.
Barber, Russel J.
1988 The Use of Land Snails from Prehistoric Sites for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction. in George P. Nicholas, ed. Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America, pp. 1128. Plenum Press, NY.
Barbian, Lenore and Ann Magennis
1994 Variability in Late Archaic Burials at Turner Farm, Maine. Northeast Anthropology 47:119.
Barton, George H.
1963 Unique Artifacts from Maine. MassachusettsArchaeologicalSocietyBulletin34(2):2530
Bartone, Robert N. and Ellen Cowie
2007The Late Paleoindian Beaver Pond Site, 35.19 ME. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 47:1:4348.
Bartone, Robert N. and David Putnam, and James B. Petersen
1988 Archaeological Investigations at the Brockway Site, Central Maine. Current Research in the Pleistocene 5:13
Belcher, William R.
1989 Prehistoric Fish Exploitation on East Penobscot Bay, Maine: The Knox Site and Sealevel Rise. Archaeology of Eastern North America 17: 175191.
1989 The Archaeology of the Knox Site, East Penobscot Bay, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 29:1:3346.
1994 A Regional Approach to Fish Remains and Seasonality in East Penobscot Bay, Maine. Fish Exploitation in the Past. 7th ICAZ Fish Remains Working Group. Van Neer W.(ed). Annales du Musee Royal de 1'Afrique Centrale, Sciences.
Belcher, William R. and David Sanger, Bruce Bourque
1994 The Bradley Cemetery: A Moorehead Burial Tradition Site in Maine. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 18:328.
Bennett, Thomas C. and Nathan D. Hamilton
2010An 1868 Lecture on the Shell Midden on Goose Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 50(1):922
Bonnichsen, Robson and David Sanger
1977 Integrating faunal analysis. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 1:109135
Bonnichsen, Robson, George L. Jackson, Jr, and others
1985 The Environmental Setting of Human Colonization of Northern New England and Adjacent Canada in Late Pleistocene Times. Geological Society of America: Special Paper #197
Bonnichsen, Robson
1988 The coming of the flutedpoint People. Habitat 5:1:3436. (Maine Audubon Society).
Bonnichsen, Robson and Richard T. Will
1999 Radiocarbon Chronology of Northeastern Paleoamerican Sites: Discriminating Natural and Human Burn Features. ed. Bonnichsen, Robsen and Karen L. Turnmire, Ice Age People of North America: Environments and Adaptation. Corvallis, Oregon.
Borstel, Christopher L.
1982 Archaeological Investigations at the Young Site, Alton, Maine. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology 2. Augusta.
Bourque, Bruce J.
1973 Aboriginal Settlement and Subsistence on the Maine Coast. Man in the Northeast. 6:320 1975 Comments on the Late Archaic population of Central Maine: the view from the Turner Farm. Arctic Anthropology 12:2:3545
1976 The Turner Farm Site: A Preliminary Report. Man in The Northeast 11:2130
1977 Fishing in the Gulf of Maine: A 5000 Year History. In: G. Lawless (ed) The Gulf of Maine. Blackberry Press, Brunswick, Maine.
1995 Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies: a Gulf of Maine Perspective. Plenum Press, NY.
1994 Evidence for Prehistoric Exchange on the Maritimes Peninsula. in Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Plenum Press.
1996 On Misguided Methodology: A Response to Dincauze. The Review of Archaeology 17:1:5053. (published fall 1997)
2001 Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Bourque, Bruce J. Kenneth Morris, and Arthur Spiess
1978 Determining the season of death of teeth from archaeological sites: a new sectioning technique. Science 199:53031
Bourque, Bruce J. and Steven L. Cox
1981 Maine State Museum Investigation of the Goddard Site, 1979. Man in The Northeast 22:327
Bourque, Bruce J., Steven L. Cox and Robert A. Lewis
2006The Archaic Period of the Merrymeeting Bay Region, South Central Maine. In The Archaic of the the Far Northeast, edited by David Sanger and M. A. P. Renouf, pp. 307-340. University of Maine Press, Orono.
Bourque, Bruce J. and Robert Doyle, and Steve White
1984The Archaeological Distribution of Banded Spherulitic Rhyolite in Maine. Man in the Northeast 28:111119.
Bradley, W.
1957 Radiocarbon age of the Damariscotta shell heaps. American Antiquity 22(3):296
Bradstreet, Theodore E. and Ronald B. Davis
1975 MidPostglacial environments in New England with emphasis on Maine. Arctic Anthropology 12:2:722
Braun, David P.
1974 Explanatory models for the evolution of coastal adaptation in Prehistoric New England. American Antiquity 39:582596.
Brigham, Michael
1996 The Chandler Collection. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 36:1:17
Brigham, Michael, Robert N. Bartone, Jessica A. Reed, and Ellen Cowie
2001 Introduction to the Archaeological Phase III Excavations at Ntolonapemk, the Eastern Surplus Superfund Site. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 41:2:2739.
Brockman, Mark E. and Jeffrey Georgiady
2005Prehistoric Lithic Resources of the Coastal Volcanic Belt, Washington Co., Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 45:1:524.
Brown, Harold E.
1982 Animal Remains from the Basin Site. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 22:1:2527
Bruce, Walter G.
1964A Preliminary Report of Four Season's Work at Swans Island, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 1:56.
1965 Long Cove, A Maine ShellDeposit Site. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 27:1:812.
Bunker, Victoria
1992Stratified Components of the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition at the Eddy Site, Amoskeag Falls. in Early Holocene Occupation in Northern New England, edited by Brian Robinson et al. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology, Number 9.
Burke, Adrian L.
2006Stone Tool Raw Materials and Sources of the Archaic Period in the Northeast. In The Archaic of the the Far Northeast, edited by David Sanger and M. A. P. Renouf, pp. 409-436. University of Maine Press, Orono.
Burns, Robert L.
1971 MidCoast Washington County. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 11:15.
Byers, Douglas S.
1953 Red Paint Tombs in Maine. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 15(1):28.
Byers, Douglas S. and Wendell S. Hadlock
1955 Carbon14 dates from Ellsworth Falls, Maine. Science 121:735736
Byers, Douglas S.
1962 New England and the Arctic. In J. M.Campbell (ed). Cultural Relationships between the Arctic and Temperate Zones of North America. Arctic Institute of North America Technical Paper 11
Byers, Douglas S.
1939 Warren King Moorehead 18661939. American Anthropologist 41:286294
1959 The Eastern Archaic: some problems and hypotheses. American Antiquity. 24:233256
1979 The Nevin Shellheap. Andover: Phillips Academy
Callum, Kathleen
1995 Archaeology in a Region of Spodosols, Part 2. Pedological Perspectives in Archaeological Research, SSSA Special Publication 44.
Chadbourne, P.
1850 Oyster shell deposit in Damariscotta. Maine Historical Society of Portland Collections 6:345351
Clark, James and Richard T. Will
2006Intersite Comparisons of Archaic Period Stone Artifacts: The Clark I Site and the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition.In The Archaic of the the Far Northeast, edited by David Sanger and M. A. P. Renouf, pp. 285-306. University of Maine Press, Orono.
Coffin, Claude C.
1941 Red Paint Graves. Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin. 12:37
ColeWill, Rebecca and Richard Will
1996 A Probable Middle Archaic Cemetery: The RichmondCastle Site in Surry, Maine. Archaeology of Eastern North America 24:95148.
Cook, David S.
1984 Birch Bark Canoes and Munsungan Chert. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 24:2:3339.
Cook, David S. and Arthur Spiess
1981 Archaeology of the Piscataquis Ahwagan: Preliminary Results. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 21(1)2938
Cowie, Ellen R.
1990 Recent Archaeological Investigations on the Southern Androscoggin River valley, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 30(1)114
Cowie, Ellen R. and James Petersen
2002From HunterGatherer Camp to Horticultural Village: Late Prehistoric Indigenous Subsistence and Settlement. John Hart and Christina Rieth, editors. Northeast SubsistenceSettlement Change A.D.7001300. NY State Museum Bulletin 496:265287.
Cox, Belinda and James B. Petersen
1997 The Varney Farm (3657 Me): a Late Paleoindian Encampment in Western Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 37:2:2548.
Cox, Steven L.
1987 Archaeological Data Recovery at Site 61.20 Jonesport, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 27:2:1635
1991 Site 95.20 and the Vergennes Phase in Maine. Archaeology of Eastern North America 19:135162
1983 The Blue Hill Bay Survey. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 23(2)2130
2000 An Early Contact Site on the Upper St. Croix River. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 40(2)110.
2009Archaeological Investigations at the Scott’s Midden Site, Deer Isle. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 49:2:5-16.
Cox, Steven L. and Gary Lawless
1994 The Indian Shell Heap: Archaeology of the Ruth Moore Site. Blackberry Books Nobleboro, ME.
Cox, Steven L. and Deborah Wilson
1991 4500 Years on the Lower Androscoggin: Archaeological Investigation of the RosieMugford Site Complex. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 31(1):15-40.
Cox, Steven L. and Diane Kopec
1988 An Archaeological Investigation of the Watson site, Frenchman Bay. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 28(1):3945.
Cranmer, Leon E.
1991 Blockhouses and Cellars: The 1989 and 1990 Archaeological Work at Fort Halifax. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 31(2):126.
Crisell, Rob
1998 A Northern Exposure: New Acquisition. American Archaeology 2:4:34
Cross, John R.
1993 Craft Specialization in Nonstratified Societies. Research in Economic Anthropology 14:6184.
Cross, John R.
2008The SimpsonStewart Site in East Brunswick, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 48:1:118.
Curran, Mary Lou
1996 Paleoindians in the Northeast: The Problem of Dating Fluted Point Sites. The Review of Archaeology 17:1:210. (published fall 1997)
Crane, Pamela and Anne Wilder
2002A Farm for the Support of the Poor : Historical Archaeology at the Scarborough Town Farm, 18651953. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 42:1730.
Darrah, William Culp
1951 Powell of the Colorado (Especially Chapter 23: Haven). Princeton University Press, Princeton
Davis, Stephen A.
1992 Two Concentrations of PaleoIndian Occupation in the Far Northeast. Revista de Archeologia Americana 3: 3156
Descarte, Rene M.
1974 The Cabot Site: A Ceramic Period Occupation on North Haven Island. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 14(2):619.
Dincauze, Dena F.
1981 Book Review of Dean R. Snow. The Archaeology of New England. Science 212:11401141.
1988 Tundra and enlightenment: landscapes for Northeastern Paleoindians. Quarterly Review of Archaeology 9:2:58.
1993 Antecedents and Ancestors, At Last. (Review of Robinson et al. eds.). The Review of Archaeology 14:2:1222.
1993 Pioneering in the Late Pleistocene: Larger Paleoindian Sites in the Northeast. Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams. Edited by James B. Stoltman. Mississippi. Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson, Archaeological Report No 25.
1993 Fluted Points in the Eastern Forests. in From Kostenki to Clovis, edited by Olga Soffer. Academic Press.
1996 Deconstructing Shell Middens in New England. The Review of Archaeology17:1:4549. (published fall 1997)
Dow, Robert L.
1971 Some Characteristics of Maine Coastal Kitchen Middens. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 1:614
1964 Fossils, Middens and Sea Water Temperatures Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 3:68
Doyle, Richard and Ellen Cowie
2007In Memoriam: Dr James B. Petersen 19542005. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 47:1:12.
Doyle, Richard and Nathan D. Hamilton, James Petersen
1982 Early Woodland Ceramics and Associated Perishable Industries from Southwestern Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 22(2):421.
Doyle, Richard , James B. Petersen, and Nathan Hamilton
1985 A Late Archaic Shell Midden on Great Moshier Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 25(1):4150.
Doyle, Robert G.
2008Identification of Lithic Artifacts from Central Coastal Maine Archaeological Sites: a Case Study in Regional Lithic Acquisition Strategies. Flying Passage Press, Gardiner, ME.
Dubrule, Deborah
1997 Silent Sites. Island Journal 14:8083.
Dunn, Gerald C.
1950 An Indian campsite on Cobbosseecontee Stream. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 12(1):18.
1954 A workshop at Lake Tacoma. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 15(3):57
1960 The Eel Bridge Site and Its Relationship to the Sebasticook River Route. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 21(34):3338. And Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 8:27.
1964 An Interesting Maine Indian Site as Reported by George Lacome to Gerald C. Dunn Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 1:710.
1977 Some facts about Kineo felsite. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 17(2):23
Eldridge, Stuart A.
2007Archaeology at the Stanley Site, Monhegan Island, Maine: Implications for Modeling Late Archaic Coastal Adaptations. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 47:2:120.
Farmer, Bert E.
1978 Were the English the First to Discover America? Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 18(1): 4147.
Feher, Steve
1972 An IroquoisMohawk type pot from Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 12(2):46
1974 A Site on Big Lake. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 14(1.):14
1975 Some HoeLike Implements, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 15(1):1920
1970 A Preliminary Report on Big Lake Pottery, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 10:2223.
1976 Some Big Lake Pottery, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 16(2):710
1971 Some Interesting Problematicals, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 11(2):12 1975 A Scarcity of Drills and Drilling Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 15(2):2731
Fiedel, Stuart
1987 Algonquian Origins: A Problem in ArchaeologicalLinguistic Correlation. Archaeology of Eastern North America 15:111
Fowler, William S.
1961 Movement of prehistoric peoples in the northeast. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin. 22(34):6265
1971 Some sources of New England flints. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin. 32(34):2328.
1972 Maine Archaic Complex Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin. 33(34):1015.
Fox, John W.
1972 Dating kaolin tobacco pipes of Indian Island. Man in the Northeast. 3:2035
Funk, Robert E.
1988 The Cremation Concept: A Review Archaeology of Eastern North America 16:142
Georgiady, Jeff and Mark Brockman
1999 Lithic Resources in the Jim Pond Formation, Franklin County, Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin, 39:1:912.
Goldthwaite, Richard P.
1935 The Damariscotta shell heaps and coastal stability. American Journal of Science. Series 5Vol. 30. pp 113
Gramly, R. Michael
1984 Kill sites, killing ground and fluted points at the Vail site. Archaeology of Eastern North America 12:11021
1988 The Adkins Site: A PaleoIndian Habitation and Associated Stone Structure. Persimmon Press, Buffalo, N.Y.
1985 Recherches archeologiques au site paleoindien de Vail, dans le nordouest du Maine, 19801983 Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec 15:12:
1981 Eleven Thousand Years in Maine. Archaeology 34:6:3239
1982 The Vail Site: A PalaeoIndian Encampment in Maine. Buffalo Museum of Science.
1988 Excavations at the Ken Wing site, an isolated ceramic period encampment in the Stratton Highlands, NW Maine. Man in the Northeast 36:8999
1995 Perspective on Maine Archaeology. The Amateur Archaeologist 1(2):3945.
1995 A Quartz Crystal Fluted Point from Maine. The Amateur Archaeologist 1(2):6569.
1995 The Vail PaleoIndian Site: Fifteen Years after the Excavation. The Amateur Archaeologist 1(2):4664.
2005The Upper/Lower Wheeler Dam Sites: Clovis in the Upper Magalloway River Valley, NW Maine. The Amateur Archaeologist 11:2546.
2005Recent Archaeological Fieldwork at the Vail Clovis Habitation and Kill Site. The Amateur Archaeologist 11:2:1937.
2005PaleoAmerican Smallscale Sites in the Magalloway Valley, Northwestern Highlands, Maine.The Amateur Archaeologist 11:2:6779.
Gramly, R. Michael and Kerry Rutledge
1981 A New PaleoIndian Site in the State of Maine. American Antiquity 46:354360.
Gramly, R. Michael, D. C. Waldorf, and Val Waldorf
2005Fluted Drills and Recycled Fluted Points at the Vail Clovis Site. The Amateur Archaeologist 11:4771.
Grumet, Robert
1995 Historic Contact: Indian People and Colonists in Today's Northeastern United States. University of Oaklahoma Press.
Hadlock, Wendell S.
1939 The Taft's Point Shellmound at West Gouldsboro, Maine. Robert Abbe Museum Bulletin 5
1941 Three shell heaps on Frenchman's Bay. Robert Abbe Museum Bulletin 6
1941 Observations concerning the 'Red Paint Culture'. American Antiquity 7:15661
Hadlock, Wendell S. and D.S. Byers
1956 Radiocarbon Dates from Ellsworth Falls, Maine. American Antiquity 21:41920.
1943 Bone implements from shell heaps around Frenchman's Bay, Maine. American Antiquity 8:34153
Hadlock, Wendell S. and T. Stern
1948 Passadumkeag, a Red Paint Cemetery, ThirtyFive Years after Moorehead. American Antiquity 14:98103.
Hamilton, Nathan D. and John Mosher
1994 The Boothby Gravel Pit (ME 7.39), East Limington, York County. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 34:2110.
Hamilton, Nathan D. and David K. Yesner
1985 Early, Middle and Late Woodland Ceramic Assemblages from Great Diamond Island, Casco Bay, Maine. In Peterson, J. B. Editor, Ceramic Analysis in the Northeast. Occasional Publications in Northeastern Anthropology
Hamilton, Nathan D.
1990 Test Excavation of the Walker Site, Presumpscot River Drainage, Falmouth. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 30:124
Hardy, Manly,
1880 A shell heap near the south end of Great Deer Isle, Penobscot Bay: A letter to Professor F.W. Putnam. Reports of the Peabody Museum 2:19798
Haugen, Einar
1972 The Rune Stones of Spirit Pond, Maine. Man in the Northeast 4:6279
Haviland, William
2005A Safe Passage to the Sea: An Ancient Canoe Route at Deer Isle, Maine.Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 45:1:25
Hedden, Mark H.
1984 The Form of the Cosmos in the Body of the Shaman. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 21:1:iiiv.
1986The Rate of Sea Level Rise and Prehistoric Petroglyphs at Machias Bay, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 26:2 p34
1985 Sexuality in Maine Petroglyphs: Comments on the Cover Design, Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 25(1):39.
1987 Petroglyphs on Hog Island, Machias Bay. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 27:1:39.
1988Prehistoric Maine Petroglyphs (A Videoscript) Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 28(1):327
1989 A New Group of Early Petroglyphs for Machias Bay. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin, 29:2:1736.
1989 Petroglyph evidence for a possible 19th century survival of Algonkian (Passamaquoddy) shamanism in eastern Maine. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin, 29:1:2130.
1991 A Winged Figure Incised on a Slate Pebble. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 31(1):41
2002Contact Period Petroglyphs in Machias Bay, Maine. Archaeology of Eastern North America 30:120
2004Passamaquoddy Shamanism and RockArt in Machias Bay, Maine. In The Rock Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight, pp. 319343, edited by Carol DiazGranados, and James R. Duncan. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.