01883nas 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.2011.09.010