01817nas a2200217 4500008004100000022001400041245010000055210006900155260001600224300001400240490000700254520107500261653003301336653002501369653002301394653002801417653003001445100001401475700001701489856009301506 2021 eng d a0002-731600aConflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology0 aConflict Population Movement and Microscale Social Networks in N cJan-04-2021 a350 - 3670 v863 a

We employ social network analysis of collar decoration on Iroquoian vessels to conduct a multiscalar analysis of signaling practices among ancestral Huron-Wendat communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Our analysis focuses on the microscale of the West Duffins Creek community relocation sequence as well as the mesoscale, incorporating several populations to the west. The data demonstrate that network ties were stronger among populations in adjacent drainages as opposed to within drainage-specific sequences, providing evidence for west-to-east population movement, especially as conflict between Wendat and Haudenosaunee populations escalated in the sixteenth century. These results suggest that although coalescence may have initially involved the incorporation of peoples from microscale (local) networks, populations originating among wider mesoscale (subregional) networks contributed to later coalescent communities. These findings challenge previous models of village relocation and settlement aggregation that oversimplified these processes.

10aancestral Wendat archaeology10amultiscalar analysis10asettlement systems10aSocial network analysis10aVillage removal sequences1 aBirch, J.1 aHart, J., P. uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0002731621000056/type/journal_article01399nas a2200193 4500008004100000022001300041245010400054210006900158260001600227300001100243490000700254520073600261653002600997653002401023653002801047653003001075100001701105856008301122 2020 eng d a0278416500aReassessing an inferred Iroquoian village removal sequence in the Mohawk River Basin, New York, USA0 aReassessing an inferred Iroquoian village removal sequence in th cOct-27-2020 a1012360 v603 a

All archaeologists use suppositions in their narratives to bridge gaps in empirical knowledge. If these suppositions are reasonable, they often become parts of regional archaeological traditions. However, such suppositions must be testable as new methods and techniques create new empirical evidence. In ancestral Mohawk Iroquoian archaeology, three village sites in the Caroga Creek drainage, thought to date to the sixteenth-century AD, have been accepted as a chronological sequence of villages occupied by the same community over the course of several generations. As reported here, however, social network analysis based on pottery collar design motifs demonstrates it is unlikely the sites represent such a sequence.

10aIroquoian archaeology10aMohawk River valley10aSocial network analysis10aVillage removal sequences1 aHart, J., P. uhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416520302099?via%3Dihub01883nas a2200241 4500008004100000022001400041245006400055210006400119260001200183300001000195490000700205520116900212653001601381653001801397653001501415653002301430653001901453653002801472653001101500100002001511700001701531856009301548 2018 eng d a0002-731600aSocial Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics0 aSocial Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics c01/2018 a13-330 v833 a

The Wendat (Huron) and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacies of northeastern North America are often presented as functionally equivalent political formations despite their having distinct cultural traits and unique geopolitical and developmental histories. In this article we employ social network analysis of collar decoration on ceramic vessels both to examine organizational differences in the social network that composed each group and to evaluate women’s participation in political activities as potters who produced and transmitted social and political signals. The concept of social capital and the dimensions along which it varies are employed to understand variability in network statistics and topologies. Our results indicate that the Wendat confederacy formed a “complete” network characterized by bonding ties of social capital, whereas the Haudenosaunee confederacy was a “coalitional” network characterized by bridging ties. The results suggest that women’s signaling networks were integral to how each confederacy functioned and the norms of reciprocity, trust, and information-sharing that defined each political formation.

10aconfederacy10aHaudenosaunee10aIroquoians10apottery decoration10asocial capital10aSocial network analysis10aWendat1 aBirch, Jennifer1 aHart, J., P. uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0002731617000592/type/journal_article01952nas a2200241 4500008004100000245007900041210006900120260001600189300001300205490000700218520118500225653002201410653002301432653002801455653002101483100001701504700001901521700002001540700002101560700002701581700002301608856007901631 2016 eng d00aNation Building and Social Signaling in Southern Ontario: A.D. 1350–16500 aNation Building and Social Signaling in Southern Ontario AD 1350 cJan-05-2018 ae01561780 v113 a

Pottery is a mainstay of archaeological analysis worldwide. Often, high proportions of the pottery recovered from a given site are decorated in some manner. In northern Iroquoia, late pre-contact pottery and early contact decoration commonly occur on collars—thick bands of clay that encircle a pot and extend several centimeters down from the lip. These decorations constitute signals that conveyed information about a pot’s user(s). In southern Ontario the period A.D. 1350 to 1650 witnessed substantial changes in socio-political and settlement systems that included population movement, coalescence of formerly separate communities into large villages and towns, waxing and waning of regional strife, the formation of nations, and finally the development of three confederacies that each occupied distinct, constricted areas. Social network analysis demonstrates that signaling practices changed to reflect these regional patterns. Networks become more consolidated through time ultimately resulting in a “small world” network with small degrees of separation between sites reflecting the integration of communities within and between the three confederacies.

10anorthern Iroquoia10apottery decoration10aSocial network analysis10asouthern Ontario1 aHart, J., P.1 aShafie, Termeh1 aBirch, Jennifer1 aDermarkar, Susan1 aWilliamson, Ronald, F.1 aCrawford, Gary, W. uhttp://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.015617801478nas a2200169 4500008004100000245011400041210006900155300001200224490000700236520090200243653002301145653002301168653002401191653002801215100001701243856004801260 2012 eng d00aThe Effects of Geographical Distances on Pottery Assemblage Similarities: A Case Study from Northern Iroquoia0 aEffects of Geographical Distances on Pottery Assemblage Similari a128-1340 v393 a

A basic premise of archaeology is that the more frequently two human populations interacted with one another the more similar was their material culture. A corollary of this is that the closer two human populations are to one another geographically, the more frequently they will interact. This corollary has been expressed in the archaeological study of northern Iroquoia since the 1950s on the basis of historical ethnic territories. The expectation has been that after ca. A.D. 1000 to 1300 there was more interaction between village populations within these historical territories than between village populations located in different historical territories. Here I test this corollary with pottery decoration data from 114 northern Iroquoian village sites dating from c. A.D. 1350 to 1640. Results indicate that geographic distance has little effect on pottery assemblage similarity.

10aNorthern Iroquoian10apottery decoration10aRegression analysis10aSocial network analysis1 aHart, J., P. uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.09.01001383nas a2200181 4500008004100000245006700041210006600108300001200174490000700186520082400193653001701017653003301034653002101067653002801088100001701116700002001133856004801153 2012 eng d00aNorthern Iroquoian Ethnic Evolution: A Social Network Analysis0 aNorthern Iroquoian Ethnic Evolution A Social Network Analysis a322-3490 v193 a

Ethnicity is one kind of social relationship that archaeologists explore. The evolution of the northern Iroquoian ethnic landscape in New York, southern Ontario, and the St. Lawrence Valley has been of long-standing interest to archaeologists. Since MacNeish’s (1952) pottery typology study, the predominant model for this evolution has been cladistic. Collar decoration served as a means of signaling attributes of the potter and pottery users that mirrored other more visible signals. We use social network analysis to determine whether pottery collar decoration data best fit MacNiesh’s cladistic or an alternative rhizotic model. The results better fit the rhizotic model.

10aEthnogenesis10aNorthern Iroquoian ethnicity10aSignaling theory10aSocial network analysis1 aHart, J., P.1 aEngelbrecht, W. uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-011-9116-1