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Professor David Putnam's Publications, Reports, and Presentations

PUBLICATIONS

 

Jerome, Bernard, and David E. Putnam, Constructing Alliances Along the Northern Border. In: Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Archaeology in the Northeastern United States. Jordan Kerber (Editor). University of Nebraska Press.

 

Putnam, David E., 2004, Alone in a Crowded Wilderness. Essay in: Maine Voices:A celebration of the people of Maine and the places they love. Jeremy Scheaffer, Sarah Cecil, and Steven J. Holmes editors.  Wilderness Society, Washington DC.

 

Dixon, E. James, Timothy H. Heaton, Terence Fifield, Thomas D. Hamilton, David E. Putnam and Frederick Grady, 1997, Late Quaternary Regional Geoarchaeology of Southeast Alaska Karst: A Progress Report.  Geoarchaeology 12(6): 689-712.

 

David E. Putnam, 1994, Vertical Accretion of Flood Deposits at a Deeply Stratified Archaeological Site in Central Maine, USA.  Geoarchaeology, 9(6): 467-502.

 

Petersen, James B., and David E. Putnam, 1992, Early Holocene Occupation in the Central Gulf of Maine Region. In: Early Holocene Occupation in Northern New England. Edited by Brian S. Robinson, James B. Petersen, and Ann K. Robinson. Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology 9.

 

Jacobson, Heather A, James B. Petersen and David E. Putnam, 1988, “Evidence of Pre-Columbian Brassica in the Northeastern United States.”  Rhodora 90(864): 355-362.

 

Petersen, James B., and David E. Putnam, 1987, “Another Holocene Sequence and Recent Progress of the Piscataquis Archaeological Project in Central Maine.”  Current Research in the Pleistocene 4.

 

Petersen, James B., and David E. Putnam, 1987, “Early Holocene Archaeological Sequences in the Piscataquis River Drainage of Central Maine.”  Northeastern Anthropological Association Special Paper.

 

REPORTS and MANUSCRIPTS  ( Selected Examples Only)

 

Putnam, David E., Bertrand Pelletier, and Adam Michaud, 2006, Reconnaissance archaeological survey of the Grande and Petite Cascapedia River drainages, Gaspésie, Québec.  Report prepared for the Gesgapegiag First nation and the Ministry of Culture and Communication, Québec, Canada.

 

Putnam, David E., and Aaron E. Putnam, 2004, Glacial Geology Field Reconnaissance, Deboullie Lakes Reserve, T15R9, Aroostook Co., Maine.  Report prepared for the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and lands, Augusta.

 

Putnam, David E., JoAnne W. Putnam, Bernard Jerome, and Ramona Jerome, 2003, Plamu Wesit. A Mi’kmaq Atlantic salmon curriculum for 8th grade at the Wejgwapniag School, Gesgapegiag, Quebec.

 

Putnam, David E., 2003, Reconnaissance Archaeological Survey of the Upper St. John River: Baker Lake to Ninemile Bridge, Maine. Report prepared for the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, Brunswick, Maine.

 

Putnam, David E. and Robb Engel, 2003, Phase II Archaeological Testing of ME 168.1. Report prepared for the Presque Isle Water Department, Presque Isle, Maine

 

Putnam, David E., Robb Engel, and Aaron Putnam, 2002, Archaeological Phase I Survey of the Presque Isle Water District’s Proposed Higgins Groundwater Site, Presque Isle, Maine.

 

Putnam, David E., 2000, Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Johns Bridge Access, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Piscataquis County, Maine.  A report prepared for the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands.

 

Putnam, David E., 1997, Archaeological Investigation of the Headwater Lakes Region, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Northern Maine.  Annual summary report prepared for the Maine Dept. of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands.

 

Putnam, David E., Dariel McKee, and Tom Coon, 1997, Archaeological Survey of the Churchill Dam Impoundment, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, Northern Maine.

 

Spiess, Arthur, Leon Cranmer, and David Putnam, 1996, Archaeological Assessment of the Maine Department of Transportation Proposal for the Extension of I-95 from Houlton to Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine.  Maine DOT, Augusta.

 

Putnam, David E. and Terence Fifield, 1995, Estuarine Archaeology and Holocene Sea-Level Change on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.  Paper presented at the “Hidden Dimensions” conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

 

2005, Archaeology of the “Two Maines”.  Presented at the International Appalachian Trail Resource Conference, May 6, Shin Pond, Maine.

 

2005, Allagash Archaeology: Culture History, Research, and Management. Presented at “Citizens to Protect the Allagash” April 30, U. Maine.

 

2003, “The Deep History of the Meduxnekeag River: Deglaciation to Euro-American Settlement” Presented to the Meduxnekeag River Coalition, Houlton. Maine.

 

2003, “Identifying Traditional Cultural Properties”.  6th annual New England Tribal Environmental Training Conference. University of Maine at Presque Isle. 

 

2003, “Scientific Exploration of Alaska, Bottom to Top” Keynote presentation, Arctic Theme Weekend, Maine School of Science and Mathematics, Limestone, Maine.

 

2002, “Unconscious Habitat” Why do humans grow flowers?  Presentation to the Federated Garden Clubs of Maine, University of Maine at Presque Isle.

 

2001, “Cultural Security: the ramifications of consolidation for efficiency” Presented at the annual meeting of the St. John Valley Soil and Water Conservation District, USDA Farm Service Agency.

 

1998, “Traditional Iñupiat Eskimo Whaling” Presented at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service meeting, Indian Island, Maine.

 

1997, “Seeking Refuge in the Mud” A presentation of wet site archaeology in southeast Alaska.  Barrow Arctic Science Consortium Lecture Series, Barrow, Alaska.

 

1998, “Holocene Sea-Level Indicators on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.” Paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Anchorage.

 

1997, “The Maliseet Archaeology Project: Shared Goals on Common Ground”,  Presented at the Conference of Wabanaki Education, Orono, Maine.

 

1997,  “The Archaeology of Southeast Alaska.”  Presented at the Maine Archaeological Society Spring Meeting, Augusta.

 

1995, “Estuarine Archaeology and Holocene Sea-Level Change on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.”   Paper presented at “Hidden Dimensions: the Cultural Significance of Wetland Archaeology” an international conference in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, April 28.

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