Late Pleistocene archaeology & ecology in the far Northeast [electronic resource] / edited by Claude Chapdelaine ; foreword by Christopher Ellis.

"Peopling of the Americas publications"--Prelim. p.

Eight contributions adapted from presentations given at a symposium held at the 2009 annual meeting of the Quebec Archaeological Association in Sherbrooke; 2 additional contributions and the introd. written specifically for this book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: toward the consolidation of a cultural and environmental framework / Claude Chapdelaine and Richard A. Boisvert -- Regional syntheses -- Paleoindian occupations in the Hudson Valley, New York / Jonathan C. Lothrop and James W. Bradley -- Maritime mountaineers: Paleoindian settlement patterns on the west coast of New England / John G. Crock and Francis W. Robinson IV -- The Paleoindian period in New Hampshire / Richard A. Boisvert -- Geographic clusters of fluted point sites in the far Northeast / Arthur Spiess, Ellen Cowie, and Robert Bartone -- Specialized studies -- New sites and lingering questions at the Debert and Belmont sites, Nova Scotia / Leah Morine Rosenmeier, Scott Buchanan, Ralph Stea, and Gordon Brewster -- The early Paleoindian occupation at the Cliche-Rancourt site, southeastern Quebec / Claude Chapdelaine -- The burial of early Paleoindian artifacts in the podzols of the Cliche-Rancourt site, Quebec / François Courchesne, Jacynthe Masse, and Marc Girard -- The Bull Brook Paleoindian site and Jeffreys Ledge: a gathering place near Caribou Island? / Brian S. Robinson -- Between the mountains and the sea: an exploration of the Champlain Sea and Paleoindian land use in the Champlain Basin / Francis W. Robinson IV -- Late Pleistocene to early Holocene adaptation: the case of the Strait of Quebec / Jean-Yves Pintal.

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