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Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 –1300

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Figure 16.2. Map of the Bliss Islands, showing the locations of prehistoric archaeological<br />

sites. Sites designated by Borden numbers in large type contain Late Maritime<br />

Woodland components.<br />

CULTURE-HISTORICAL<br />

CONSIDERATIONS<br />

Table 16.1 shows the system of Maritime Woodland-<br />

Historic period culture-historical nomenclature I use 1 .<br />

Although stylistic changes in artifact types have long<br />

been recognized (e.g., Matthew 1884; Pearson 1970;<br />

Sanger 1986; Tuck 1984), there has been a long-standing<br />

tendency for archaeologists to treat the Maritime<br />

Woodland as a single unit of analysis—and to treat<br />

sites and components dating to this period as single<br />

units of analysis—especially with respect to subsistence,<br />

seasonality, and settlement studies (cf. Turnbull<br />

and Allen 1988:256). That this tendency persists is<br />

exemplified by Sanger’s (1987:136) definition of the<br />

Quoddy Tradition as a single, undifferentiated adaptation<br />

spanning the years from ca. 250 B.C. to ca. A.D.<br />

1600, by Tuck’s (1984:42-85) separation of the Maritime<br />

Woodland sites in the Maritime Provinces by ethnocultural<br />

areas but not by temporal units, and by Bourque’s<br />

(1995:169-222) treatment of all Maritime Woodland<br />

remains at the Turner Farm site on the central Maine<br />

coast as a single component (“occupation” in<br />

Bourque’s terminology).<br />

In contrast, I have adopted a stratigraphic and<br />

chronological approach to Maritime Woodland subsistence-settlement<br />

systems (Black 1988, 1992, 1993). The<br />

precision of this approach has been enhanced recently<br />

by Petersen and Sanger’s (1991) ceramic chronological<br />

sequence for the Maine/Maritimes area (Table 16.1),<br />

Chapter 16 Out of the Blue and into the Black: The Middle-Late Maritime Woodland Transition in the Quoddy Region 303

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