The Maritime Archaic was a Late Archaic cultural complex of subarctic sea-mammal hunters along the Atlantic coasts of Newfoundland, the Canadian Maritimes, and northern New England, notable for long-distance trade and elaborate mortuary practices.
Disappeared from the archaeological record by approximately 1200 BCE (3200 BP), most likely displaced by southward-expanding Palaeo-Eskimo populations who arrived in northern Labrador around 2000 BCE; no direct named successor polity.
Covers Maritime Archaic as part of the broader Late Archaic survey.
Scholarly reference for Atlantic Canada Archaic peoples.