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This fortnight, we’re kicking off season two in conversation with Emily Draicchio, who recently defended her MA thesis, “Excavating Archives: Mapping Enslaved People and Locating their Living Quarters in New Brunswick’s Loyalist Landscape” at UNB. We discuss Black Loyalists and the forgotten history of slavery in Atlantic Canada. And we have a new Ecofor prize winner for NB Archaeology Bingo!

• Chan, Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm, https://utpress.org/title/slavery-in-the-age-of-reason/

• Hartman, Saidiya. 2008. Venus in Two Acts. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 12(2):1-14. [Introduces the concept of “critical fabulation”]Whitfield, North to Bondage, https://www.ubcpress.ca/north-to-bondage

• Ecofor, https://www.ecofor.ca/

Hit Pieces:

• Elliott Smith, E. A., P. Szpak, T. J. Braje, B. Newsom, and T. C. Rick. 2023. Pre-industrial ecology and foraging behavior of swordfish Xiphias gladius in the eastern North Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series 711:129-134.

• Kitchel, Nathaniel R., Brandi L. MacDonald, Matthew T. Boulanger, and Heather M. Rockwell. 2023. Preliminary results on the applicability of neutron activation analysis (NAA) to identify cherts from the Munsungun Lake Formation, Maine, USA. Geoarchaeology 38(5):665-676.

• Taylor, Marla “Creating an Indigenous Collections Care Guide”https://peabody.andover.edu/2023/08/17/creating-an-indigenous-collections-care-guide/?fbclid=IwAR0CZ1iY6H3xxYhjsu2YROrG7lCPJsU-5iKCBH4ScX-Vdwp3ZrxLKgeWvgE

• Wheeler, Ryan J., and Bonnie Newsom. 2023. Chapter 11 Sacred Places and Contested Spaces in Maine: The Long Shadow of Colonial Science in the Light of Repatriation. Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 34(1):132-144.

Music:

Justin Hoenke: https://tinyurl.com/mu7v7unw

Shayne Dahl

Sponsor:

Association of Professional Archaeologists of New Brunswick: apanb.ca