Title History in the making : the archaeology of the eastern subarctic / Donald H. Holly Jr

Published Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 197 pages) : illustrations Series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology. Contents The lookout tree -- Driftwood -- Tuckamore -- Wildfire -- The giving tree -- The forest for the trees Summary The Eastern Subarctic has long been portrayed as a place without history. Challenging this perspective, History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic charts the complex and dynamic history of this little known archaeological region of North America. Along the way, the book explores the social processes through which native peoples "made" history in the past and archaeologists and anthropologists later wrote about it. As such, the book offers both a critical history and historiography of the Eastern Subarctic.--Publisher's website "Anthropologist Holly, a leading scholar on the history of ethnographic and archaeological research in the eastern subarctic, presents the changing interpretations of cultural development and adaptation in the subarctic within the context of a changing environment. Early investigators viewed the region as a marginal boreal forest environment with a sparse hunting and gathering population. As research progressed, knowledge that population fluctuations were due to variable weather patterns that impacted resource distributions replaced this interpretation. This is an up-to-date synthesis of 10,000 years of the archaeological record of Amerindian and Paleoeskimo coastal and interior adaptations and population interactions in Newfoundland, Labrador, and eastern Quebec. Far-flung social and trading networks arose throughout the eastern subarctic and beyond by 4000 BCE, continuing intermittently to 1500 CE. Holly explores European contact with the Vikings, later Basque whalers, and fishing fleets, and establishment of permanent settlements, which had a profound impact on Beothuk, Innu, Inuit, and Mi'kmaq societies. Well illustrated with maps, graphics, and photos, this superb history of 100-plus years of research demonstrates that, far from early perceptions of a backward region of marginal hunters and gatherers, this was a region of complex, dynamic interactions between different ethnic groups and the changing landscape they inhabited. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty."--Review, CHOICE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-189) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Woodland culture -- Canada, Eastern -- History Woodland culture -- Canada, Northern -- History Excavations (Archaeology) -- Canada, Eastern Excavations (Archaeology) -- Canada, Northern HISTORY -- Canada -- General. Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Woodland culture SUBJECT Canada, Eastern -- Antiquities Canada, Northern -- Antiquities Subject Eastern Canada Northern Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2013031383 ISBN 9780759120242 0759120242

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