02035nas a2200253 4500008004100000022001400041245009100055210006900146300001200215490000700227520125400234653002201488653001501510653001901525653003101544653001201575100001501587700001701602700001601619700001701635700001701652700001801669856009401687 2025 eng d a0002-731600aFarmers with a Taste for Fish: New Insights into Iroquoian Foodways at the Dawson Site0 aFarmers with a Taste for Fish New Insights into Iroquoian Foodwa a157-1730 v903 a

Iroquoian groups inhabiting the St. Lawrence Valley in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD practiced agriculture and supplemented their diet with fish and a variety of wild plants and terrestrial animals. Important gaps remain in our knowledge of Iroquoian foodways, including how pottery was integrated to culinary practices and the relative importance of maize in clay-pot cooking. Lipid analyses carried out on 32 potsherds from the Dawson site (Montreal, Canada) demonstrate that pottery from this village site was used to prepare a range of foodstuffs—primarily freshwater fish and maize, but possibly also other animals
and plants. The importance of aquatic resources is demonstrated by the presence of a range of molecular compounds identified as biomarkers for aquatic products, whereas the presence of maize could only be detected through isotopic analysis. Bayesian modeling suggests that maize is present in all samples and is
the dominant product in at least 40% of the potsherds analyzed. This combination of analytical techniques, applied for the first time to Iroquoian pottery, provides a glimpse into Iroquoian foodways and suggests that sagamité was part of the culinary traditions at the Dawson site

10aBayesian modeling10aIroquoians10alipid analysis10anortheastern North America10aPottery1 aTaché, K.1 aTremblay, R.1 aLucquin, A.1 aAdmiraal, M.1 aHart, J., P.1 aCraig, O., E. uhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731624000519