Each fortnight, we try to showcase important recent publications that are relevant to New Brunswick archaeology via our "Hit Pieces" segment. We also use our show notes to link important publications about regional archaeology. Archaeologists are ethically required to publish their findings, and we try to live up to this ideal ourselves and to promote the work of our colleagues on the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast. We hope to improve this section of our website in the future, but for now it's shameless self promotion of some books we've done.
Along with our colleague, Trevor Dow, we've compiled the fourth entry in the New Brunswick Bibliography Series. It also includes an essay by Isaac St. John. It contains 640 entries, many of them annotated, and accompanying essays. Stay tuned for accompanying digital resources. It was published by Gaspereau Press and is available here.
We co-edited this volume based on a session at the Canadian Archaeological Association meeting. It's a successor to volumes about the Palaeoindian Period and the Archaic Period. It's a pretty exhaustive (or at least, large) review of the archaeology from about 3000 years ago to European contact and has lots of great work by our colleagues. As you can see, we were pretty happy when it came out. The piece of paper on the bottom of the book is a French cuff, and the book got one to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Museum of History's Mercury Series. The cover art is by Austin Paul.
Gabe wrote this book with Matt Betts. It's designed to be a big culture-historical overview of the Atlantic Northeast (the Maritimes, Maine, and Newfoundland & Labrador). To paraphrase Frank Zappa, a real region ought to have a beer, an airline, and a book reviewing its archaeology. This book is pretty accessible to the general public or students, but hopefully still a useful source of information for professional archaeologists. The conclusion has a list of potential research topics for graduate student theses. The cover art is by Melissa Labrador.