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A Comment on Emery and Edwards’ “Archaeological Potential of the Atlantic Continental Shelf”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bert Salwen
Bert Salwen*
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New York University, New York, New York
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Abstract

After expressing general agreement with the major conclusions reached by Emery and Edwards, the author comments on two points. 1. He takes issue with the oft repeated assertion that Archaic peoples of the Northeast coast did not “learn to eat marine mollusks,” and suggests, instead, an environmental explanation for the absence of shellfish debris from some Archaic sites. 2. He adds to the list of archaeological sites now under water, points out that, at some of these, artifactual materials seem to have been protected from scattering by the development of peat layers over the occupation areas, and he suggests that this fact may hold out hope for the future discovery of relatively undisturbed drowned sites in the waters off the Atlantic Coast.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 546 - 547
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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