Dr. Ingeborg Marshall

As she turns 95 on 11 May 2024, this blog post celebrates Dr. Ingeborg Marshall’s more than fifty years of commitment as a private scholar to the province’s history, and in particular to Beothuk history and archaeology. When she began this work in the early 1970s, original copies of James P. Howley’s 1915 volume on […]

Shamblers Cove

The Shamblers Cove site, located near Greenspond on the north side of Bonavista Bay, gains prominence in Newfoundland and Labrador archaeology due to the unique characteristics of its Dorset component. It should also be recognized for its multiple instances of First Nation occupations. The Historic Resources Division first became aware of this site in June […]

Archaic branches

The Archaic period begins around 9000 years ago in Newfoundland and Labrador with the oldest recognized Archaic site in the province at Pinware Hill in the community of Pinware, radiocarbon dated to 8850+/-100 (SI-2309). Prior to the late 1960s little was known about the Archaic occupation of the province. This drastically changed with the excavation […]