David W Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 195362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Brunswick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Radiocarbon chronologies, coastal erosion, and archaeological visibility in the Quoddy Region, far northeastern North America
Around the world, coastal erosion is one of the greatest threats to the archaeological record. Understanding the patterns of erosion’s effects on the archaeological record is therefore crucial to interpreting apparent gaps in the archaeological record. One way to understand how erosion has affected particular eras may be to consider radiocarbon datasets to explore what periods are lost from the record and if that destruction occurred before the p…
Diagnostic Late Palaeoindian Lanceolate Projectile Points from New Brunswick, Canada
“… The most delicious fish …”—toward a zooarchaeology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis , on the coastal Northeast of North America
Recent studies have underlined the importance of shellfish in Ancestral Wabanaki diets. Green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) remains are a substantial component of shellfish assemblages from some Ancestral Wabanaki habitation sites and are present in smaller amounts in many other archaeological sites on the coastal Northeast. We summarize extant knowledge of archaeological sea urchin remains in the Quoddy Region of New Brunswick a…
Archaeological Sea Mammal Remains from the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Faunal assemblages from Maritime Woodland period shell-bearing archaeological sites in the Maritime Provinces show that people living on marine shorelines practiced foraging/collecting adaptations focused on the resources of the littoral zone and inshore waters. The hunting of sea mammals, especially the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), was a significant aspect of this adaptation. Evidence suggests that people …
Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula
Shark teeth are commonly found in mortuary and ritual contexts throughout the Northeast. On the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been identified in mortuary assemblages spanning the Late Archaic through to the Late Woodland periods (ca. 5000 B.P. to 950 B.P.). Beyond the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been recovered from Woodland period contexts ranging from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River. Amerindian perspectivism, or cosmológical dei…
L’importance du phoque dans l’alimentation des populations sylvicoles de la région de Quoddy (Nouveau-Brunswick)
Les assemblages fauniques et d’autres données concernant la subsistance sur les sites archéologiques du Sylvicole dans la région de Quoddy, au Nouveau-Brunswick, indiquent que les populations autochtones pratiquaient un mode d’acquisition centré sur les ressources de la zone littorale mais incluant également les ressources des eaux côtières et les habitats terrestres et d’eau douce proches de la côte. La chasse de deux espèces de phoque, le phoqu…
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
Western Australia
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, 19th century British anthropologist and editor of folk tales for children, represents a unique synthesis of culture and personality. A proponent of cultural evolutionism, Lang believed that prehistoric and contemporary "uncultivated" peoples inhabit an enchanted mental universe. This same pre-logical thinking, however, is expressed in Lang's own methodology, and later, when evolutionary theory had become disreputable, in Lang's Colou…
Prehistoric Shellfish Preservation and Storage on the Northeast Coast
Recently, there has been an exchange in the archaeological literature of the Northeast coast regarding the interpretation of some Northeastern coastal shell middens as resulting from the intensive exploitation and preservation of shellfish resources. This article examines both sides of this exchange critically. It is concluded that, while the ethnohistoric evidence supports interpretations of prehistoric preservation and storage, archaeological e…
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
Down the Stream or Up the Creek? The Economic Geography of a Dendritic Tributary/Exchange System in Micronesia
Several political, social and ecological explanations of the "Yapese Empire", a tributary/exchange system which existed in the western Caroline Islands of Micronesia, have been presented in the anthropological literature. This paper briefly reviews these explanations, and offers an alternative, but largely complementary, view of the tributary/exchange system as a dendritic central-place system. This model serves as a heuristic device from which a…
Recent Archaeological Research in the Insular Quoddy Region, New Brunswick, Canada
The Vichian Elements in Susanne Langer’s Thought
Rhetoric as Philosophy
Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula
Shark teeth are commonly found in mortuary and ritual contexts throughout the Northeast. On the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been identified in mortuary assemblages spanning the Late Archaic through to the Late Woodland periods (ca. 5000 B.P. to 950 B.P.). Beyond the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been recovered from Woodland period contexts ranging from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River. Amerindian perspectivism, or cosmológical dei…
Archaeological Sea Mammal Remains from the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Faunal assemblages from Maritime Woodland period shell-bearing archaeological sites in the Maritime Provinces show that people living on marine shorelines practiced foraging/collecting adaptations focused on the resources of the littoral zone and inshore waters. The hunting of sea mammals, especially the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), was a significant aspect of this adaptation. Evidence suggests that people …
Prehistoric Shellfish Preservation and Storage on the Northeast Coast
Recently, there has been an exchange in the archaeological literature of the Northeast coast regarding the interpretation of some Northeastern coastal shell middens as resulting from the intensive exploitation and preservation of shellfish resources. This article examines both sides of this exchange critically. It is concluded that, while the ethnohistoric evidence supports interpretations of prehistoric preservation and storage, archaeological e…
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
Rhetoric as Philosophy
The Vichian Elements in Susanne Langer’s Thought
Down the Stream or Up the Creek? The Economic Geography of a Dendritic Tributary/Exchange System in Micronesia
Several political, social and ecological explanations of the "Yapese Empire", a tributary/exchange system which existed in the western Caroline Islands of Micronesia, have been presented in the anthropological literature. This paper briefly reviews these explanations, and offers an alternative, but largely complementary, view of the tributary/exchange system as a dendritic central-place system. This model serves as a heuristic device from which a…
Recent Archaeological Research in the Insular Quoddy Region, New Brunswick, Canada
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, 19th century British anthropologist and editor of folk tales for children, represents a unique synthesis of culture and personality. A proponent of cultural evolutionism, Lang believed that prehistoric and contemporary "uncultivated" peoples inhabit an enchanted mental universe. This same pre-logical thinking, however, is expressed in Lang's own methodology, and later, when evolutionary theory had become disreputable, in Lang's Colou…
Prehistoric Shellfish Preservation and Storage on the Northeast Coast
Recently, there has been an exchange in the archaeological literature of the Northeast coast regarding the interpretation of some Northeastern coastal shell middens as resulting from the intensive exploitation and preservation of shellfish resources. This article examines both sides of this exchange critically. It is concluded that, while the ethnohistoric evidence supports interpretations of prehistoric preservation and storage, archaeological e…
"A Conservative Generation of Students? Comments on "Anthropology's Other Press
Western Australia
JAS review of books
Andrew Scott, Running on Empty, Pluto Press, 2000, pp 330, $32.95 Carol Johnson, Governing Change Keating to Howard, University of Queensland Press in association with the API network, 2000, pp v + 175, pb $29.95 Marian Simms and John Warhurst (eds), Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Australian Election, University of Queensland Press, pp xxi + 260, pb $29.95 Charles Fox, Fighting Back: The Politics of the Unemployed in Victoria in the Great Depression, …
L’importance du phoque dans l’alimentation des populations sylvicoles de la région de Quoddy (Nouveau-Brunswick)
Les assemblages fauniques et d’autres données concernant la subsistance sur les sites archéologiques du Sylvicole dans la région de Quoddy, au Nouveau-Brunswick, indiquent que les populations autochtones pratiquaient un mode d’acquisition centré sur les ressources de la zone littorale mais incluant également les ressources des eaux côtières et les habitats terrestres et d’eau douce proches de la côte. La chasse de deux espèces de phoque, le phoqu…
Perspectivism, Mortuary Symbolism, and Human-Shark Relationships on the Maritime Peninsula
Shark teeth are commonly found in mortuary and ritual contexts throughout the Northeast. On the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been identified in mortuary assemblages spanning the Late Archaic through to the Late Woodland periods (ca. 5000 B.P. to 950 B.P.). Beyond the Maritime Peninsula, shark teeth have been recovered from Woodland period contexts ranging from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River. Amerindian perspectivism, or cosmológical dei…
Archaeological Sea Mammal Remains from the Maritime Provinces of Canada
Faunal assemblages from Maritime Woodland period shell-bearing archaeological sites in the Maritime Provinces show that people living on marine shorelines practiced foraging/collecting adaptations focused on the resources of the littoral zone and inshore waters. The hunting of sea mammals, especially the harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) and the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), was a significant aspect of this adaptation. Evidence suggests that people …
“… The most delicious fish …”—toward a zooarchaeology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis , on the coastal Northeast of North America
Recent studies have underlined the importance of shellfish in Ancestral Wabanaki diets. Green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) remains are a substantial component of shellfish assemblages from some Ancestral Wabanaki habitation sites and are present in smaller amounts in many other archaeological sites on the coastal Northeast. We summarize extant knowledge of archaeological sea urchin remains in the Quoddy Region of New Brunswick a…
Diagnostic Late Palaeoindian Lanceolate Projectile Points from New Brunswick, Canada
Radiocarbon chronologies, coastal erosion, and archaeological visibility in the Quoddy Region, far northeastern North America
Around the world, coastal erosion is one of the greatest threats to the archaeological record. Understanding the patterns of erosion’s effects on the archaeological record is therefore crucial to interpreting apparent gaps in the archaeological record. One way to understand how erosion has affected particular eras may be to consider radiocarbon datasets to explore what periods are lost from the record and if that destruction occurred before the p…
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