The Changing Prey of Maine's Early Hunters

Focuses on the hunting habits of the early Indian population of Maine. Significance the Red Paint complex and the prehistoric society that sustained it; Archeological discoveries at excavation sites; Weapons; Birchbark canoes; Indications that the Maine coast hunters harpooned, fished and hunted caribou; Environmental system; Marine environment; Subsistence practices; Ecological balance; The beaver fur trade; How the Indians' fortunes came to be linked to the commercial interests of the colonial French and English.