Someone Before Us was the first book-length publication devoted substantially to the Prehistoric (pre-European Contact) archaeology of New Brunswick.
George Frederick Clarke (GFC) undertook his archaeological work at a time when there was little other such research being conducted in the province.
His period of active field research, from the mid-1920s to the early 1960s, fits almost perfectly between the demise of 19th-century, natural-history-style archaeology around 1914 an.