Ceramic Period Maine

And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time.

Ceramic period maine.

Ceramic period occupation of the central maine coast. This sherd specimen is decorated with linear incision linear. The information that we have indicates that a paper copy may be located at maine historic preservation commission augusta. Another technological change occurred at about 2800 years ago as maine native americans adopted or borrowed from further south along the atlantic coast the making of fired clay pottery.

George river estuary in maine. Submit correction comment requires login. And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time. The abbe museum is a private non profit.

Make offer pair vintage andersen design studio art pottery birds fledgling robin wren maine. Sign in view cart help. The upper damariscotta river is famous for its enormous oyster shell heaps also called middens. This study reveals that ceramic period coastal hunter gatherers in maine used an assortment.

George river drainage. Hunter gatherer estuarine adaptations in the st. Masters thesis memorial university of newfoundland. Your admission fees donations membership and shop purchases support education exhibits and collections care.

Archaeologists call the last 2800 to 3000 years or so of maine pre contact culture the ceramic period. An analysis of stemmed biface morphology. Native people have lived in the area now called maine for many thousands of years. By artifacts and faunal material from six ceramic period shell midden sites located in the st.

Manufacturing techniques appear to remain similar however. Native americans created the middens over a period of about a thousand years between 2 200 and 1 000 years ago. English pdf migrated pdf a conversion from original format. Ceramic period linear incised pottery sherd the most recent prehistoric maine pottery tends to have much thinner walls than do earlier pots.