The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast

In this special two-interview episode, we are joined by Brian Fritz (Quemahoning LLC) and Chelsea Colwell-Pasch (Colbr Consulting) for back-to-back interviews about techniques they are using for deep archaeological testing in eastern North America. They each discuss the equipment they’ve designed to conduct deep testing in the region, what sort of projects deep testing is valuable for, and some of their success stories. We also have a very special live hit piece with Michelle Bebber and Chris Wolff about their new edited volume, “From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America”. Show NotesQuemahoning https://www.quemahoning.com/Colbr https://colbr.ca/ArchaeologyX https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMifBopbH05ySFOBLr3df1wHit Pieces:From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BebberFromSociety for American Archaeology - Geoarchaeology Task Force: Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resources Management in the US (2025) https://www.saa.org/common/Uploaded%20files/saadocs/CareerPractice/SAA%20Statements%20and%20Guidelines/saa-gtf-statement-on-deep-testing-and-qualifications-for-geoarchaeologists-07mar25.pdfCreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we’re joined by Matt Betts, who argues that reports of culture-history’s death may have been premature. So tonight we’ve got paradigms and epi-paradigms, systematics, evolutionary theory, and Matt even explains why archaeological theory is like a Chinese buffet. It’s like if your grad school culture history class was not only fun, but edgy. So come be theoretically subversive and tune in. Show Notes:Betts, Matthew W, and M Gabriel Hrynick. 2021. The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast. University of Toronto Press.Lyman, R. Lee, Michael J. O'Brien, and Robert C. Dunnell. 1997. The Rise and Fall of Culture History. Plenum PressHit PieceLow, Kayla. 2026. Ceramics of the fisheries: an analysis of Breton coarse earthenwares in the North Atlantic from the 16th to the 19th centuries. MA Thesis, Department of Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland https://memorial.scholaris.ca/items/e88a78ed-5c64-4927-b337-d31b8788b082THE NB ARCH POD WILL BE LIVE IN CANMORE at the CAA ANNUAL MEETING!When: Thursday, May 7th, 7:00-9:00 PMWhere: Grizzly Paw Pub, 622 8th Street https://share.google/36cC2wrjL8i2LdRKyRSVP: https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-meeting/field-tripsFundraising for the CAA Scholarship Fund: send us a screenshot or receipt of your donation of $25 or more to get an exclusive NB Arch Pod apron! https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=17CreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we’re joined by Dr. Madeleine McLeester for a special love potion themed Valentines day episode. So whether you need a “bagger” to seduce your crush or you’re wondering how to interpret that graffiti on the brothel wall, we’ve got just the V-Day programming you’ve been looking for. We also talk about medicinal plants and landscape knowledge. So put out the roses, pour yourself a nice glass of sparkling Covassier, put the roses in a vase, and remember the reason for the season. Show NotesPaulette, Tate. 2024. In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia. Oxford. ”https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-the-land-of-ninkasi-9780197682449?cc=ca&lang=en&Seifert, Donna J. 1991. Within Site of the White House: The Archaeology of Working Women. Historical Archaeology 25(4):82-108.Seifert, Donna J., and Joseph Balicki. 2005. Mary Ann Hall’s House. Historical Archaeology 39, (1):59-73.Hit PieceMcLeester, M. 2026 “All Plants Are Medicine”: Historical Menominee Medicinal-Plant Collection Practices, Wisconsin, U.S.A.. Historical Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-025-00585-0 CreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight, we're back from our winter recording hiatus to bring your an interview we recorded before the winter, but an intro and outro that's as fresh as the 90 km/h chinook winds. Gabe and Ken spoke to Kelley Berliner who is the Eastern Regional Director at The Archaeological Conservancy about what her job entails (everything from real estate to alien bunkers under a river), how the archaeological conservancy secures, protects, and preserves archaeological sites, and weighs in once again on the merits of Ohio. Show Notes:The Archaeological Conservancy: https://www.thearchcons.org/https://www.youtube.com/@TheArchaeologicalConservancyAmundsen-Meyer, L., et al. (2026). Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAM.p5af3xtusDave Leslie on cemetery GPR https://deathetseq.com/ Madsen, D. B., Davis, L. G., Williams, T. J., Izuho, M., Iizuka, F. (2025). "Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic." Sci Adv 11(43): eady9545. 10.1126/sciadv.ady9545 Credits:Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we’re traveling with the Northeastern Archaeological Survey van to Fort William Henry and Lake George New York for a recap of the 2025 Eastern States Archaeological Federation Meeting held in Lake George, New York in November of 2025. In addition to commentary from Gabe and his colleagues and students on the ride through the snowy Northeast, you’ll hear from...Linda Seminario (DNREC) on salvage archaeology and public archaeologyZac Singer (State of Maryland) on the MD Fluted Point SurveyEmily Draicchio on Black Loyalists in NBSydney Dufresne (Salve Regina) on Geophysics at Revolutionary War era sites in Newport, and Mandy Ranslow (ConnDOT). And stay tuned! Next year’s meeting is in Connecticut. ESAF: https://esaf-archeology.org/index.htmlCreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces:Justin Hoenke

It’s the holidays! This fortnight, Gabe and Ken are sitting around the table at The Cardinal Room and talking food, drink, music, movies, and even a little bit of archaeology. We then turn it over to Producers Emanuel and Cody who dive into the creative process, AI and the singularity, and your song suggestions for the holidays. Pour yourself a festive beverage (some suggestions, below), listener, as we wrap up the year of the pod that was! See you in 2026!✨ Thank you for being part of the NBAP community. 🎁 Wishing you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!Show NotesPauketat’s Cahokia, William Gibson’s Jackpot TrilogyLion’s Tail cocktail: Brad Parson’s AmaroNonna Maria Sofia’s LimoncelloPatisserie Jacqui, Hanover Street ChophouseBourbon & Butter, NevadosMusic sourced from the Top 5 Arch Spotify playlist (compliments of Emanuel):Mood — MakarClimbing the Ginso Tree — Gareth CokerWaiting for the Clouds — NujabesVeya, Pt. 1 — Fat JonDistant Land — MadlibAll music is credited to the original artists and copyright holders. This video does not claim ownership of any third-party audio used. The music is included for artistic and creative purposes only. If you are a rights holder and have any concerns regarding the use of your work, please contact us.Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we're getting biblical, and as we thread the needle between Hannukah and Christmas, we figured what better way than to head back to the source material. That's right, it's the Early Woodland in the Levant (aka the Iron age) and we've got Dr. Kevin McGeough (University of Lethbridge) on the Pod to talk about the Ark of the Covenant. Ken and Gabe have read Kevin's new book Readers of the Lost Ark and we get Kevin to answer all your questions: could it be a conduit to God? is it a weapon? is it an alien radio? and just how many Finnish mystics does it take to excavate the Temple Mount? Happy holidays, listener!Show NotesMcGeough, Kevin M. (2025). Readers of the Lost Ark: Imagining the Ark of the Covenant from Ancient Times to the Present. Oxford. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/readers-of-the-lost-ark-9780197653883 (also find it at Indigo and your favourite local bookseller!)Kevin McGeoughHeller, Steven. (2000). The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption. Allworth Press, New York, NYCCRA : https://www.facebook.com/p/Canadian-Cultural-Resources-Association-61565057884135/survey linkCreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight, Ken and Gabe sit down with Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud to discuss one of the most recognizable sites in New Brunswick archaeology, the Bristol-Shiktehawk Site. We delve into George Frederick Clarke, caches, Early Woodland ceremonialism, craft production, and Alex and Gabe come dangerously close to making us the New Brunswick pseudoarchaeology podcast. They're not Solutrean, but they could be leaves. Prepare your offering to Boognish, cause lordy, lordy he’s coming home.Show NotesClarke, George Frederick. 2016. Someone Before Us: Buried History in Central New Brunswick. Expanded Fourth Edition ed., edited by Mary Bernard. Woodstock, New Brunswick: Chapel Street Editions.Honsinger, Alexander, Alexandre Pelletier-Michaud, Arthur Anderson, M. Gabriel Hrynick, and Hendrik Carroll-Pohls. 2025. "Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of “Quoddy Speckled Mudstone:” a Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine–new Brunswick Quoddy Region." Archaeology of Eastern North America 53: 73-86.Pelletier-Michaud, Alexandre. 2018. "The Bristol-Shiktehawk bifaces and Early Woodland ceremonialism in the Middle Saint John Valley, New Brunswick." MA, Department of Anthropology, University of New Brunswick.Rust, Horatio N. 1905. "The Obsidian Blades of California." American anthropologist 7 (4): 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1905.7.4.02a00150. https://go.exlibris.link/sZY1fSh8.Hit PiecesOlson, Olivia, "Birdsong: Human-Bird Relationships during the Ceramic Period in Wabanaki Homeland: a Case Study at the Frazer Point Site (Me 44-49; Acad 00110), Schoodic Peninsula, Maine" (2025). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4201.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/4201 Seymore, Deni J. 2025. Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement. American Antiquity, 90:419-445 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/extraordinary-claims-extraordinary-evidence-the-coronado-expeditions-1541-suya-settlement/2F3ACA404ED9993051E508B1562E4587?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmarkCreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

Set your clock a half hour ahead, because today on the New Brunswick Archaeology podcast we’re talking to Don Holly about Newfoundland and, especially, the Beothuk. Whether you’re interested in agency and history in hunter-gatherer studies, or you want to know about some of the earliest Indigenous-European interactions in North America, you won’t want to miss this show. Don also reflects on the legacy of his collection of American Antiquity reviews, “Talking to the Guy on the Airplane,” conspiracies, and why being an archaeologist both is and isn’t like being an HVAC guy. Finally in this Era of fast takes, he tell us why he’s going to listen to the new T-Swift album a few more times before he forms his opinions on it.Show NotesSassaman and Holly, Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/hunter-gatherer-archaeology-as-historical-processHolly, History in the Making https://www.amazon.com/History-Making-Archaeology-Subarctic-Woodlands/dp/0759120226Holly, Talking to the Guy on the Airplane https://thekeep.eiu.edu/sociology_fac/36/Holly Jr, D. H. and T. M. Friesen (2025). "The Archaeology of Forgetting, the Dorset, and Arctic Antiquity." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 35(4): 648–660.Holly, D. H., Erwin, J. C., Wolff, C. B., Hull, S. H., Samuels, A., & Brake, J. (2023). Scaling up and hunkering down: The evolution of Beothuk houses and households. North American Archaeologist, 44(4), 146-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231190427 Howley., 1915. The Beothucks or Red Indians https://archive.org/details/beothucksorredin00howlHit PiecesHolyoke, K.R. (2025) Carboniferous Cherts and the Archaeology of Washademoak Lake, New Brunswick, Canada. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 29-56.Honsinger, A., A. Pelletier-Michaud, A. Anderson, M.G. Hrynick, and J.-H. Caroll-Pöhls. (2025). Provenance, Petrography, and Distribution of Quoddy-Speckled Mudstone: A Distinctive Lithic Raw Material from the Maine-New Brunswick Quoddy Region. Archaeology of Eastern North America, 53: 73-86CreditsSponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke

This fortnight we're going deeper than we have--and maybe any of you have--before into geoarchaeology and the necessity for deep testing. Gabe and Ken chat with Dr. Heidi Luchsinger, RPA (Precision Geoarchaeology Inc/ERM) and Karl Kibler, RPA (Cross Timbers Geoarchaeological Services) about the Society for American Archaeology's Geoarchaeology Task Force. We talk about the importance of geoarchaeology as part of the CRM planning process, deep testing and why it should be better regulated and applied, and their work on the SAA's "Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resource Management in the United States." These might be the deepest thoughts we've ever had on the NB Arch Pod, so grab your backhoes and augers. Un-till next time, listener.Show NotesSociety for American Archaeology - Geoarchaeology Task Force: Statement on Deep Testing for Terrestrial Sites and Professional Qualifications for Geoarchaeologists in Cultural Resources Management in the US (2025)Heidi Luchsinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-luchsinger-geoarchaeology/Karl Kibler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karl-kibler-rpa-20b66214/SAA Geoarchaeology Interest GroupHit PiecesLelièvre, M., Martin, C., Corbett, M., Brooks, S. and Martin, H. (2025), “Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki. Am. Anthropol.. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.28104Hrynick MG, Anderson AW, DeWater K, Kochtitzky W, Spiess AE. Characterizing the Erosion of Coastal Archaeological Sites on the Maritime Peninsula Using Survey, Collection Analysis, Excavation, and Modeling. American Antiquity. Published online 2025:1-16. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.25Credits:Sponsors: APANB, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)Producers: Emanuel Akel (Audio Engineer); Cody Pai (Video/Socials)Music Credits: Intro/Outro (Remix): Emanuel Akel, Original Title/Hit Pieces: Justin Hoenke