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Illustrations ix
Series Foreword xiii
Foreword by Brona G. Simon xv
Preface by Jordan E. Kerber xxi
PART I: COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY 1
1. Archaeology on the Boston Harbor Islands after 25 'Years 3
Barbara E. Luedtke
2. Interpreting Diverse Marine Shell Deposits of the
Woodland Period in New England and New York:
Interrelationships among Subsistence, Symbolism, and
Ceremonialism 13
Jordan E. Kerber
3. Late Woodland Use of Coastal Resources at Mount Sinai
Harbor, Long Island, New York 27
David J. Bernstein
4. Archaeological Investigations at the Lucy Vincent Beach
Site (19-DK-148): Preliminary Results and Interpretations 41
Elizabeth S. Chilton and Dianna L. Doucette
5. Small is Beautiful: Tidal Weirs in a Low-Energy Estuary 71
Dena F. Dincauze and Elena Decima
PART II: LITHIC ANALYSIS 87
6. A Petrographic Assessment of Stone Tool Materials in
New England 89
Barbara L.A. Calogero
7. Late Woodland Lithic Resource Use and Native Group
Territories in Eastern Massachusetts 105
Duncan Ritchie
8. Landscape Interpretation on the Microscopic Scale: Case
Studies in Southern New England 125
Michael A. Volmar and Shirley Blancke
PART III: CERAMIC ANALYSIS 139
9. Reconsidering the Shantok Tradition 141
Robert G. Goodby
10. Those Puzzling Late Woodland Collared Pottery Styles:
An Hypothesis 155
Lucianne Lavin
11. An Optical Mineralogy Approach to Northeastern Ceramic
Diversity 179
John P. Pretola
12. Analysis and Interpretation of Early Ceramics from
Sewalls and Amoskeag Falls, Merrimack River Valley,
New Hampshire 207
Victoria Bunker
References 223
Index 261
About the Contributors 269