Ceramic Period Maine

Ceramic period linear incised pottery sherd the most recent prehistoric maine pottery tends to have much thinner walls than do earlier pots.

Ceramic period maine.

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. Hunter gatherer estuarine adaptations in the st. Native americans created the middens over a period of about a thousand years between 2 200 and 1 000 years ago. The information that we have indicates that a paper copy may be located at maine historic preservation commission augusta.

The upper damariscotta river is famous for its enormous oyster shell heaps also called middens. An analysis of stemmed biface morphology. Application pdf accepted version. And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time.

This study reveals that ceramic period coastal hunter gatherers in maine used an assortment. Masters thesis memorial university of newfoundland. Make offer pair vintage andersen design studio art pottery birds fledgling robin wren maine. And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time.

This sherd specimen is decorated with linear incision linear. Sign in view cart help. Manufacturing techniques appear to remain similar however. Vessels were sometimes collared and vessel form was often less conical.

George river estuary in maine. Your admission fees donations membership and shop purchases support education exhibits and collections care. The abbe museum is a private non profit. Native people have lived in the area now called maine for many thousands of years.

Ceramic period occupation of the central maine coast. 1989 the archaic ceramic period transition in new brunswick and maine. George river drainage. By artifacts and faunal material from six ceramic period shell midden sites located in the st.