Ceramic Period Maine

Native people have lived in the area now called maine for many thousands of years.

Ceramic period maine.

George river drainage. The information that we have indicates that a paper copy may be located at maine historic preservation commission augusta. Ceramic period linear incised pottery sherd the most recent prehistoric maine pottery tends to have much thinner walls than do earlier pots. 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.

Ceramic period occupation of the central maine coast. Submit correction comment requires login. George river estuary in maine. English pdf migrated pdf a conversion from original format.

And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time. Vessels were sometimes collared and vessel form was often less conical. Manufacturing techniques appear to remain similar however. Sign in view cart help.

Application pdf accepted version. Hunter gatherer estuarine adaptations in the st. By artifacts and faunal material from six ceramic period shell midden sites located in the st. The abbe museum is a private non profit.

1989 the archaic ceramic period transition in new brunswick and maine. Native americans created the middens over a period of about a thousand years between 2 200 and 1 000 years ago. This study reveals that ceramic period coastal hunter gatherers in maine used an assortment. 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. 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.