| This course considers the archaeology of New England and Atlantic Canada from the region's first peopling to the period of early European contact. This course is divided into eleven short modules designed as building blocks of regional prehistory. Each module will have its core a series of short readings and lectures. Topics covered might include: Contemporary First Nations Communities in the Northeast, Environmental context, The Palaeoindian period and the peopling of Northeast, Early and Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Terminal Archaic and Early Woodland, Palaeoeskimos in Newfoundland, Middle Maritime Woodland and Ancestral Beothuk, Late Maritime Woodland, European contact, and the Historical archaeology in the Northeast. |
