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Bone Implements from Shell Heaps around Frenchman's Bay, Maine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Wendell S. Hadlock
Wendell S. Hadlock*
Affiliation:
Robert Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine
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There are several hundred known shell heaps, along the coast of Maine, some of which have been hardly dug into while others have been completely excavated. Except for their size, they appear much alike both on the surface and in their internal structure.

It is not possible to say with certainty that one tribe or group of Indians inhabited each shell heap from the time of its beginning until the heap reached its present size. It is probable that many of the shell heaps were not, in many instances, occupied year after year, while others show a continual growth without any marked indication of periods when the areas were not in use.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , April 1943 , pp. 341 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1943

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References

1 Willoughby, 1935, p. 214. Bibliography see pp. 361–362 following.

2 Skinner, 1920, pp. 125–218.

3 Ibid.

4 Ritchie, 1936.

5 Hadlock, 1941.