Optimum Diet Models and Prehistoric Hunter‐Gatherers: A Test on Martha's Vineyard

Perlman, Stephen M.

doi:10.1525/cia.1981.3.2.23

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“…On Martha's Vineyard, historic documentation and oral histories from modern Wampanoag communities show that the island has been occupied for thousands of years. Prior research on Martha's Vineyard has ranged from amateur archaeologists and local historians to professional cultural resource management (CRM) companies and academic researchers (Guernsey 1916;Byers and Johnson 1940;Speck and Dexter 1948;Huntington 1959;Waters 1967Waters , 1969Ritchie 1969;Perlman 1977;Richardson 1985;Chilton andDoucette 2002a, 2002b;Largy et al 2002;Herbster and Cherau 2006;Chilton and Herbster 2008;Duranleau 2009;Kirakosian 2015). Together, their results present a long history of the island, beginning with Paleoindians moving across the region when Martha's Vineyard was an inland knoll and continuing to the present as an island with modern Native communities.…”

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An Updated History of Pre-Contact New England: New Ams Dates for the Hornblower Ii and Frisby-Butler Archaeological Sites

Watson

2020

Radiocarbon

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Faunal assemblages from the pre-Contact period sites Frisby-Butler and Hornblower II on Marthaʼs Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA, remain unstudied since excavation during the 1980s. This project establishes radiocarbon (14C) dates from faunal remains and evaluates occupation and abandonment at each site. 14C measurements were collected from 17 specimens and 13 dates from previous analyses were re-examined. Dates were identified from the archaeological time periods Transitional Archaic (2700–3700 BP), Early Woodland (2000–2700 BP), and Late Woodland (450–1200 BP) at Frisby-Butler. Occupation likely represented seasonal visitations during autumn and winter to hunt based on white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) demographic profiles. A combined dataset of new and re-calibrated 14C measurements from Hornblower II date to the Late Archaic (3700–6000 BP), Early Woodland, Middle Woodland (1200–2000 BP), and Late Woodland periods. Settlement was focused on gathering warm-weather foods like demersal fish and lakebirds. Together, the sites demonstrate periodic seasonal use of the southwest coast of the island throughout the Late Holocene and fit within an established regional pattern in southern New England.

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