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On New England Shell Middens: Response to Sanger's Cautionary Tale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Arthur E. Spiess
Arthur E. Spiess*
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Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, ME 04333
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Abstract

There is an ongoing debate about the nature of artifact association and the expression of living surfaces in New England and Maritime Provinces shell middens. I focus this debate on a single shell midden where supposedly Early Woodland styles of projectile points are associated with Middle Woodland ceramics. These findings suggest that either a revision of the New England and Maritime Provinces Woodland sequence is necessary, or that we should rethink our models of shell-midden formation processes.

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American Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 174 - 177
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1988

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