Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty: A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843 by Howard Jones; The Journals of John Edwards Godfrey, Bangor, Maine 1863-1869; The Archaeology of New England by Dean R. Sno

Book Reviews

Review of the following books: Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty; The Forerunners: The Tragic Story of 156 Down-East Americans Led to Jaffa in 1866 by Charismatic G.J. Adams to Plant the Seeds of Modern Israel by Reed M. Holmes; Islands of Maine: Where America Really Began by Bill Caldwell; Foundations of Northeast Archaeology edited by Dean R. Snow; A Short History of the American Locomotive Builders in the Steam Era by John H. Whit

Modern archaelogical research in Maine has discovered that the coast was inhabit

Modern archaelogical research in Maine has discovered that the coast was inhabited year-round for the last 5,000 years. Although erosion is destroying many of the best sites, shell heap research is yielding information on fishing, hunting, and commerce. Details

Prehistoric archaeology of the Maine coast has reconstructed ecological changes

Prehistoric archaeology of the Maine coast has reconstructed ecological changes and the relationship of early man to his environment. Shell heaps at 5000-year-old Indian sites and 800 A.D. wigwams from Allen Island show a continuity of Maine life largely uninterruped by European trading until the 1600s. Details; history of seventeenth-century Indian ethnic groups and wars. With seven related stories on the Gulf of Maine this issue

Skeleton of Extinct North American Sea Mink (\u3cem\u3eMustela macrodon\u3c/em\u3e)

Mustela macrodon (extinct sea mink) is known only from prehistoric and historic Native American shell middens dating less than 5100 years old along coastal islands of the Gulf of Maine, northeastern North America. The species is distinct from all known extant subspecies of M. vison (American mink) but still belongs to the North American subgenus Vison. Metric comparisons between M. macrodon and five subspecies of M. vison, using skull, mandible, humerus, radius, femur, and tibia skeletal elements, show that M. macrodon is larger in overall size and robustness and is proportionately larger in the dental region. Many habitat-related parallels exist between coastal island mink of the Gulf of Maine and those of the Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska, where the overall largest living subspecies of mink is found (M. v. nesolestes)