<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spiess, Arthur</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">James Petersen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">End of the Susquehanna Tradition circa 3000 BP in Maine</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2000</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ottawa</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Our view of the beginning of the Ceramic or Woodland period in Maine just after 3000 BP (radiocarbon) is tempered by how we view the end of the Susquehanna tradition. There is currently disagreement among Maine archaeologists, with some assuming that the Susquehanna tradition comes to an end circa 3400 BP with the disappearance of the broad biface knives and points that characterize the early Susquehanna tradition. Other Maine archaeologists, notably Jim Petersen and I, focus on continuity in some material culture aspects of the Susquehanna tradition after 3400 BP, with stylistic change in projectile points through broadly side-notched forms ending in an Orient-like style of stemmed point. A review of Maine contract archaeology reports and Maine site files indicates that sites of the Susquehanna tradition are geographically widespread across the state, and that points of late Susquehanna tradition and Orient form are not rare or restricted geographically. It is, perhaps, a matter of finally recognizing them. This paper reports data from two Maine sites excavated by Spiess: Fort Halifax with two stratified occupations dating circa 3100 to 3200 BP underneath a Vinette-I early Ceramic occupation, and the Purinton House with radiocarbon dated hearth and aceramic occupation circa 3000 BP. The Fort Halifax terminal archaic levels records the persistence of some Susquehanna tradition material culture, such as classic drill forms, to 3100 BP. The Purinton house occupation is loosely associated with Perkiomen point and steatite vessel fragment, both late Susquehanna tradition markers. In sum, I think we can prove cultural continuity within a terminal Archaic sequence until almost 3000 BP, however one wants to name the culture, and I prefer to call it simply late (small 'l') Susquehanna tradition. The nature of the transition to Early Ceramic or Woodland, marked by Vinette I pottery, within a radiocarbon century or two maximum, however, continues to be poorly understood.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>