"Coastal Adaptations to the Northern Gulf of Maine and Southern Scotian Shelf"

Three decades ago, David Sanger (1988) summarized evidence for coastal adaptations to the northern Gulf of Maine (NGOM), from about 6,000 years ago to European contact. We revisit that discussion and summarize recent insights into the development of regional economies around the NGOM and its watershed. We extend the discussion by considering the entire prehistoric sequence from Paleoindians to the eve of European contact, and by considering related riverine/interior evidence and artifacts that inform on the nature of coastal economies. Biologists and ecologists often consider the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf as one system (e.g., Worcester and Parker 2010)

• JSTOR
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwvr35j.9