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Archaeology Of Maine 1922 Leather Bound
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1922. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 299 ARCHAEOLOGY OF MAINE 1922 WARREN K. MOOREHEAD
299 pages, Leather Bound
First published August 8, 2015
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October 19, 2015
I am not an archaeologist, but I appreciate the skill and workmanship required to make tools of stone, and the mystery that surrounds items from long ago.
My four stars for this old book (1922) are not about the content or writing, but in recognition that the book has a unique place in Maine history of archaeology. That is, we can learn what NOT to do. The author was active in coastal Maine in the early 1900s, in unrelenting pursuit of the burial grounds of Native Americans. He was a man of his times, but is that an excuse? He wrote disparagingly of relic hunters who got to some sites ahead of him, but by our measures he did no better, and perhaps much worse because of the number of sites he dug up over a vast area in the Northeastern U.S. He seemed impervious to native people, who were present in his time and remain with us today, and did not recognize that they prefer that their ancestors' graves should be left undisturbed. Archaeologists of our own times (some are Native Americans) would have studied the Moorehead-collected artifacts -- some sacred, some everyday tools -- in context, relating to the layers of soil in which they lay buried, and in association with other items. The author of this book plowed up fields that were formerly the campsites of the people he wanted to study, then collected artifacts that were turned up and removed them to Massachusetts. He was proud of his time-saving method, but we can only marvel at his blunt approach.
I own a print-on-demand copy of this book, for which I am grateful. I look at it from time to time to get a fix on humility. Can I guard against being so certain, in MY time, that I am respecting the cultures of others? That's a valuable lesson, even if learned by someone else's hard way.
This is the same book at that listed as "A Report on the Archaeology of Maine, being a narrative of explorations in that state 1912-1920 together with work at Lake Champlain 1917".
My four stars for this old book (1922) are not about the content or writing, but in recognition that the book has a unique place in Maine history of archaeology. That is, we can learn what NOT to do. The author was active in coastal Maine in the early 1900s, in unrelenting pursuit of the burial grounds of Native Americans. He was a man of his times, but is that an excuse? He wrote disparagingly of relic hunters who got to some sites ahead of him, but by our measures he did no better, and perhaps much worse because of the number of sites he dug up over a vast area in the Northeastern U.S. He seemed impervious to native people, who were present in his time and remain with us today, and did not recognize that they prefer that their ancestors' graves should be left undisturbed. Archaeologists of our own times (some are Native Americans) would have studied the Moorehead-collected artifacts -- some sacred, some everyday tools -- in context, relating to the layers of soil in which they lay buried, and in association with other items. The author of this book plowed up fields that were formerly the campsites of the people he wanted to study, then collected artifacts that were turned up and removed them to Massachusetts. He was proud of his time-saving method, but we can only marvel at his blunt approach.
I own a print-on-demand copy of this book, for which I am grateful. I look at it from time to time to get a fix on humility. Can I guard against being so certain, in MY time, that I am respecting the cultures of others? That's a valuable lesson, even if learned by someone else's hard way.
This is the same book at that listed as "A Report on the Archaeology of Maine, being a narrative of explorations in that state 1912-1920 together with work at Lake Champlain 1917".
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