It’s the holidays! This fortnight, Gabe and Ken are sitting around the table at The Cardinal Room and talking food, drink, music, movies, and even a little bit of archaeology. We then turn it over to Producers Emanuel and Cody who dive into the creative process, AI and the singularity, and your song suggestions for the holidays. Pour yourself a festive beverage (some suggestions, below), listener, as we wrap up the year of the pod that was! See you in 2026!

✨ Thank you for being part of the NBAP community. 🎁 Wishing you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Show Notes

• Pauketat’s Cahokia, William Gibson’s Jackpot Trilogy
• Lion’s Tail cocktail: Brad Parson’s Amaro
• Nonna Maria Sofia’s Limoncello
• Patisserie Jacqui, Hanover Street Chophouse
• Bourbon & Butter, Nevados

Music sourced from the Top 5 Arch Spotify playlist (compliments of Emanuel):

• Mood — Makar
• Climbing the Ginso Tree — Gareth Coker
• Waiting for the Clouds — Nujabes
• Veya, Pt. 1 — Fat Jon
• Distant Land — Madlib

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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 getting biblical, and as we thread the needle between Hannukah and Christmas, we figured what better way than to head back to the source material. That's right, it's the Early Woodland in the Levant (aka the Iron age) and we've got Dr. Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge) on the Pod to talk about the Ark of the Covenant. Ken and Gabe have read Kevin's new book Readers of the Lost Ark and we get Kevin to answer all your questions: could it be a conduit to God? is it a weapon? is it an alien radio? and just how many Finnish mystics does it take to excavate the Temple Mount? Happy holidays, listener!

Show Notes

• McGeough, Kevin M. (2025). Readers of the Lost Ark: Imagining the Ark of the Covenant from Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/readers-of-the-lost-ark-9780197653883 (also find it at Indigo and your favourite local bookseller!)
• Kevin McGeough
• Heller, Steven. (2000). The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption. Allworth Press, New York, NY
• CCRA : https://www.facebook.com/p/Canadian-Cultural-Resources-Association-61565057884135/
  • survey link

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, Ken and Gabe sit down with Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud to discuss one of the most recognizable sites in New Brunswick archaeology, the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site. We delve into George Frederick Clarke, caches, Early Woodland ceremonialism, craft production, and Alex and Gabe come dangerously close to making us the New Brunswick pseudoarchaeology podcast. They're not Solutrean, but they could be leaves. Prepare your offering to Boognish, cause lordy, lordy he’s coming home.

Show Notes

Clarke, George Frederick. 2016. Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick. Expanded Fourth Edition ed., edited by Mary Bernard. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Chapel Street Editions.

Honsinger, Alexander, Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud, Arthur Anderson, M. Gabriel Hrynick, and Hendrik Carroll-Pohls. 2025. "Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of “Quoddy Speckled Mudstone:” a Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine–new Brunswick Quoddy Region." Archaeology of Eastern North America 53: 73-86.

Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre. 2018. "The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick." MA, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick.

Rust, Horatio N. 1905. "The Obsidian Blades of California." American anthropologist 7 (4): 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1905.7.4.02a00150. https://go.exlibris.link/sZY1fSh8.

Hit Pieces

Olson, Olivia, "Birdsong: Human-Bird Relationships during the Ceramic Period in Wabanaki Homeland: a Case Study at the Frazer Point Site (Me 44-49; Acad 00110), Schoodic Peninsula, Maine" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4201.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/4201

Seymore, Deni J. 2025. Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement. American Antiquity, 90:419-445 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/extraordinary-claims-extraordinary-evidence-the-coronado-expeditions-1541-suya-settlement/2F3ACA404ED9993051E508B1562E4587?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

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

Set your clock a half hour ahead, because today on the New Brunswick Archaeology podcast we’re talking to Don Holly about Newfoundland and, especially, the Beothuk. Whether you’re interested in agency and history in hunter-gatherer studies, or you want to know about some of the earliest Indigenous-European interactions in North America, you won’t want to miss this show. Don also reflects on the legacy of his collection of American Antiquity reviews, “Talking to the Guy on the Airplane,” conspiracies, and why being an archaeologist both is and isn’t like being an HVAC guy. Finally in this Era of fast takes, he tell us why he’s going to listen to the new T-Swift album a few more times before he forms his opinions on it.

Show Notes

Sassaman and Holly, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/hunter-gatherer-archaeology-as-historical-process

Holly, History in the Making https://www.amazon.com/History-Making-Archaeology-Subarctic-Woodlands/dp/0759120226

Holly, Talking to the Guy on the Airplane https://thekeep.eiu.edu/sociology_fac/36/

Howley., 1915. The Beothucks or Red Indians https://archive.org/details/beothucksorredin00howl

Hit Pieces

• Holyoke, K.R. (2025) Carboniferous Cherts and the Archaeology of Washademoak Lake, New Brunswick, Canada. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 29-56.
• Honsinger, A., A. Pelletier-Michaud, A. Anderson, M.G. Hrynick, and J.-H. Caroll-Pöhls. (2025). Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of Quoddy-Speckled Mudstone: A Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine-New Brunswick Quoddy Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 73-86

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 going deeper than we have--and maybe any of you have--before into geoarchaeology and the necessity for deep testing. Gabe and Ken chat with Dr. Heidi Luchsinger, RPA (Precision Geoarchaeology Inc/ERM) and Karl Kibler, RPA (Cross Timbers Geoarchaeological Services) about the Society for American Archaeology's Geoarchaeology Task Force. We talk about the importance of geoarchaeology as part of the CRM planning process, deep testing and why it should be better regulated and applied, and their work on the SAA's "Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resource Management in the United States." These might be the deepest thoughts we've ever had on the NB Arch Pod, so grab your backhoes and augers. Un-till next time, listener.

Show Notes

• Society for American Archaeology - Geoarchaeology Task Force: Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resources Management in the US (2025)
• Heidi Luchsinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-luchsinger-geoarchaeology/
• Karl Kibler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kibler-rpa-20b66214/
• SAA Geoarchaeology Interest Group

Hit Pieces

Lelièvre, M., Martin, C., Corbett, M., Brooks, S. and Martin, H. (2025), “Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki. Am. Anthropol.. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28104

Hrynick MG, Anderson AW, DeWater K, Kochtitzky W, Spiess AE. Characterizing the Erosion of Coastal Archaeological Sites on the Maritime Peninsula Using Survey, Collection Analysis, Excavation, and Modeling. American Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-16. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.25

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

If you, like us, have ever been bewildered by the Early Woodland, this is the show for you. This week we’re joined by Dr. Jess Robinson, the Vermont State Archaeologist, and while "The radiocarbon dates are not voluminous", his knowledge about the Early Woodland is. A maple creemee is of course different from an ice cream, but is Middlesex the same as Adena? And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for one show, he teases a future research project on the material culture of Vermont’s maple industry.

Show Notes

Robinson IV, Francis W. “Jess”. 2015. “The initiation and maintenance of the Early Woodland interaction sphere (ca. 3,000-2,000 B.P.) : the view from six northeastern mortuary sites”

https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/1489/

Ritchie, William A. (Bill). 1944. “The pre-Iroquoian occupations of New York State”, https://archive.org/details/preiroquoianoccu00ritc/page/n5/mode/2up

Fiedel, Stuart J. 2001. What happened in the Early Woodland? Archaeology of Eastern North America 29:101-142.

Turnbull, Christopher J. 1976. The Augustine Site: A Mound from the Maritimes. Archaeology of Eastern North America. Archaeology of Eastern North America 4:50-62.

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 sit down with his dudeliness, Dr. Gary Coupland (Prof. Emeritus, University of Toronto), ostensibly to talk about complexity but in doing so have to ask, what really is complexity? We’re talking status inequality, a wealth of beads, and the best way to cook salmon. Unfortunately, Ken didn’t remember to ask Gary how the Leafs will do this year, but we can be reasonably assured they will win it all. Well, I hope you folks enjoy yourselves, catch you later on down the trail.

Show Notes

Coupland, Gary G., and E. B. Banning. 1996. People who lived in big houses : archaeological perspectives on large domestic structures.Monographs in world archaeology, no. 27. Madison, Wis: Prehistory Press.

Coupland, Gary, David Bilton, Terence Clark, Jerome S. Cybulski, Gay Frederick, Alyson Holland, Bryn Letham, and Gretchen Williams. 2016. "A Wealth of Beads: Evidence for Material Wealth-Based Inequality in the Salish Sea Region, 4000–3500 Cal B.P." American Antiquity 81 (2): 294-315. https://doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.81.2.294

Coupland, Gary, Terence Clark, and Amanda Palmer. 2009. "Hierarchy, Communalism, and the Spatial Order of Northwest Coast Plank Houses: A Comparative Study." American Antiquity 74 (1): 77-106. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25470539

Matson, R. G., and Gary G. Coupland. 1995. The prehistory of the Northwest Coast. Toronto: Academic Press.

McGuire, Randall H. 1983. "Breaking Down Cultural Complexity: Inequality and Heterogeneity." In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by Michael B. Schiffer, 91-142. San Diego: Academic Press.

Moss, Madonna L. 2012. "Understanding Variability in Northwest Coast Faunal Assemblages: Beyond Economic Intensification and Cultural Complexity." Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 7 (1): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586090. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2011.586090.

Sassaman, Kenneth E. 2004. "Complex Hunter-Gatherers in Evolution and History: A North American Perspective." Journal of Archaeological Research 12 (3): 227-280.

Hit Pieces

Vermont Archaeology Month! https://www.facebook.com/VermontArchaeologyMonth/

This fortnight, just like the September weather, a Canadian cold front is movin' in as we sit down to talk with Dr. Jonathan Fowler (St. Mary’s University) to talk about le Grand dérangement, and how historical archaeology is exploring Acadian deportation stories at Grand-Pré National Historic Site and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Jonathan tells us about terrestrial geophysics, the irony in the source material for Longfellow's Evangeline, landscape archaeology, and uncovering a perspective on the past from the diaries of British officers and soldiers present at the time. The keen listener will also hear a little something new in the intro/outro compliments of Emanuel…

Show Notes:

• Fowler, Jonathan, and Earle Lockerby, eds. 2013. Diaries of the Acadian Deportations: Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour & Grand-Pré. Vol. 1. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press.
• ---, eds. 2025. Diaries of the Acadian Deportations: John Winslow at Grand-Pré. Vol. 2. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press.
• Fowler, Jonathan and Noël, Stéphane 2017 Poetry is Always Truer than History: The Curious Parentage of Acadian Archaeology, in Brooks, A. and Mehler, N. (eds.) The Country Where My Heart Is: Historical Archaeologies of Nationalism and National Identity. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 37-68.
• Robertson, Robbie. 1975. Acadian Driftwood. Northern Lights – Southern Cross. https://youtu.be/SycgViWySeE?si=K6x6kqH4HTKNOk6w
• Grand-Pré National Historic Site: https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/grandpre

Hit Pieces:

• SAPIENS anthropology magazine: https://www.sapiens.org/
• Dusseault, Marisa, Matthew Betts, Kristin M. Poduska, and Meghan Burchell. 2025. "Preliminary investigation of the local marine reservoir effect in Port Joli Harbour, Nova Scotia using archaeological M. arenaria shells." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 658: 112584. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112584 . https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101822400573X
• Holly DH, Friesen TM. The Archaeology of Forgetting, the Dorset, and Arctic Antiquity. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Published online 2025:1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774325100061

Credits:

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

Producer: Emanuel Akel LinkedIn

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