If you're not humming Julie Andrews right now, wait until you hear the hum of the mosquitoes as we head to the field. That's right listeners, we are closing off this season 4 arc with a banger, but we promise you won't be left fleeing to the hills. First up, Gabe played gumshoe reporter to the Lower Wolastoq Erosion Project's 2026 work at site BlDn-12 and then took his Tascam to the Maine coast for the Northeast Archaeology Survey's work.

We'll be back to regular programming and launching Season 5 in just a fortnight, so stay tuned and join us on the journey to 25k! And remember, listener, Climb ev’ry mountain, Ford ev’ry stream, Follow ev’ry rainbow, Till you find your dream...

Hit Pieces

Eren, M. I., Meltzer, D. J., O’Connell, J. F., Pobiner, B., & Speth, J. D. (2026). Did Clovis foragers hunt megafauna, scavenge their carrion, or both – And can we tell the difference? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 105896. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105896

Hrynick, M. G., Anderson, A. W., Betts, M. W., & Black, D. W. (2026). Radiocarbon chronologies, coastal erosion, and archaeological visibility in the Quoddy Region, far northeastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 74, 105930. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2026.105930

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we’re traveling back in time to our spring(!) recording with Karen Mack of the University of Maine and Crow Curation. We're talking ceramic technology on the Maritime Peninsula and, in particular, at the Rumford Falls sites on the Androscoggin River in Maine. After a primer on regional ceramic manufacture, Karen tells us why we need to run more radiocarbon dates on pottery encrustations, discusses the importance of ceramic analysis in CRM, and describes some future research directions.

Show Notes

Mack, Karen. 2023. The Rumford Falls Ceramic Assemblage and Maine Ceramic Period 2 (CP2) Pottery. Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 63(2):1-42.

Petersen, James B., and David Sanger. 1993. An Aboriginal Ceramic Sequence for Maine and the Maritime Provinces. In Prehistoric Archaeology in the Maritime Provinces: Past & Present Research, edited by Michael Deal, and Susan Blair, pp. 113-170. The Council of Maritime Premiers Maritime Committee on Archaeological Cooperation Reports in Archaeology, Vol. no. 8. The Council of Maritime Premiers Maritime Committee on Archaeological Cooperation, Fredericton.

Hit Piece

Andronowski-Brake, Jamie E. S., et al. “Labrador Beothuk: A Reconsideration of the Point Revenge Complex.” North American Archaeologist, Mar. 2026, https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931261431226.

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

WE'RE BACK! And we were LIVE at the Grizzly Paw Pub in downtown Canmore, Alberta as part of the Canadian Archaeological Association's 58th Annual Meeting. And you, dear listeners and dear attendees were LOUD! Gabe and Ken (and Emanuel and Cody) headed up into the Bow Valley gap for a great evening with a lot of friends and guests: Katie Cottreau-Robins (CAA Past-President) and TJ Hammer (CAA President); Kisha Supernant (University of Alberta Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology); Shawn Bubel and Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge), and Christian Thériault (Gov't of PEI).

Gabe may have been wearing a 10 gallon hat, but that couldn't quench the thirst of a boisterous and joyous room full of archaeologists, conference attendees, and maybe even a Canmorite or two that found themselves in a live podcast.

***Note: Because of the live recording we encountered some audio issues with this recording and about part way through some of the interviews were cut off***

Hope your summer is going well, listener!

Credits

Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)

Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke