Ceramic Period Maine

George river drainage.

Ceramic period maine.

This study reveals that ceramic period coastal hunter gatherers in maine used an assortment. Ceramic period linear incised pottery sherd the most recent prehistoric maine pottery tends to have much thinner walls than do earlier pots. Sign in view cart help. Native americans created the middens over a period of about a thousand years between 2 200 and 1 000 years ago.

Archaeologists call the last 2800 to 3000 years or so of maine pre contact culture the ceramic period. Application pdf accepted version. George river estuary in maine. And as in all cultures and evidenced in the archaeological record technologies and traditions changed over time.

Submit correction comment requires login. Native people have lived in the area now called maine for many thousands of years. Hunter gatherer estuarine adaptations in the st. 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. Ceramic period occupation of the central maine coast. Masters thesis memorial university of newfoundland. Your admission fees donations membership and shop purchases support education exhibits and collections care.

Manufacturing techniques appear to remain similar however. By artifacts and faunal material from six ceramic period shell midden sites located in the st. 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. The information that we have indicates that a paper copy may be located at maine historic preservation commission augusta.

The abbe museum is a private non profit. An analysis of stemmed biface morphology. Make offer pair vintage andersen design studio art pottery birds fledgling robin wren maine. Vessels were sometimes collared and vessel form was often less conical.