Kenneth Roy Holyoke

Stone quarries are often archaeologically framed from a processual perspective as raw material sources which influenced hunter-gatherer mobility and exchange relationships. But, quarries were also important social places which persisted through time as fixtures in ancient landscapes. Thinking about quarries from a place-making perspective, and considering the importance of the movement of lithic material from those places, are steps in aligning quarry and sourcing research with contemporary theory in archaeology and with descendent community perspectives. Wenner-Gren funds supported costs associated with collections research documenting archaeological sites with Washademoak Multi-coloured Chert, logistics and equipment for an archaeological survey and testing program, community engagement, and a geochemical sourcing study. This research uses a case study of archaeological sites spanning from the Palaeoindian through to the post-Contact period, to argue that Ancestral Wabanaki groups were both “making place” at the Belyeas Cove quarry in south-central New Brunswick, Eastern Canada, for several millennia, and, in their circulation of Washademoak Multi-coloured Chert, were creating a type of portable place-making throughout the ancestral landscapes of the Maritime Peninsula.