Across the Tickle: The Gould Site, Port au Choix-3 and the Maritime Archaic Indian Mortuary Landscape

Abstract

This chapter links two Maritime Archaic Indian (MAI) sites in Port au Choix, the extensive mortuary site of Port au Choix-3 (EeBi-2) and the younger Maritime Archaic component of the Gould site (EeBi-42) (Fig. 3.1). This is the first detailed description of the latter site and we argue that it was an intermittently used field camp connected directly to Port au Choix-3. Understanding the 5,000 year-old coastal topography is fundamental to establishing this connection. We argue that the importance of Port au Choix-3 lay in its key position on the coastal travel route along the Northern Peninsula and that it was an important landmark for Maritime Archaic not just at Port au Choix, but throughout the larger region.