St. Lawrence Iroquoians
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This paper, written for a publication in 2015 that was never published, summarizes the state of our knowledge concerning the Iroquoian occupation of northern New York. Long a curiosity, these sites have at times been considered as part of... more
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... more
Twenty-eight new high-precision AMS radiocarbon dates have been obtained for thirteen late pre-contact Iroquoian sites in northern New York state. The new dates have altered our understanding of site chronology and the pace of cultural... more
At the time of contact with the first Europeans, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians occupied a territory that extended from the mouth of Lake Ontario to the Cap Tourmente area, near Quebec City, with a southward extension to the northern tip of... more
The St. Lawrence River valley was home to the northernmost case of plant cultivation in Northeastern North America prior to the arrival of the first Europeans. Recent analyses of phytoliths recovered from ancient pottery vessels in this... more
(Cet exposé n'est qu'une esquisse sans pretention) (This presentation is simply an unpretentious sketch) The census started on April 7 1891, and from the notice on the last page of the 1st enumerator, the Indian Agent A. Brosseau, it... more
In the late prehistoric period, the St. Lawrence Valley was home to several distinct yet related village clusters occupied by Iroquoian cultures. Among them were villages in what is now northern New York. Like so many of these... more
The McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal, Quebec, holds many collections of prehistoric artifacts from archaeological sites located in Canada and the United States. The exact provenance and donor of many of these collections are... more
(Cet exposé n'est qu'une esquisse sans pretention) (This presentation is simply an unpretentious sketch) The analysis of this census is made in 2 parts: this first concerns a briefing of the history, the full demographic statistics and... more
A descriptive catalog of all the known various groups of Iroquoian-speaking peoples in eastern North America, most of which are extinct, some of their descendants surviving among the still extant tribes.
Iroquoian populations of North America are known for having developed a subsistence pattern that was largely based on the cultivation of maize, squash, and beans. Hunting and fishing are traditionnally interpreted as representing... more
A case study is presented from the Benson site, a small, late 16th century community in south-central Ontario, that appears to have been occupied by members of two or possibly three ethnic groups. While ceramic motifs and pipe styles,... more
The Pine Hill collection was discovered in the archaeology lab at State University of New York College at Potsdam after remaining unstudied for over 30 years since its initial excavation in the 1960s and 1970s. Pine Hill has been... more
As Long as Water Runs combines ethnohistory, environmental history, and spatial history to narrate the evolution of the St. Lawrence watershed from a pre-contact Native American borderland into an international border between the modern... more
Today, practical, functional and symbolic choices inform the selection of raw materials for worked objects. in cases where we can discern the origin of worked bone, tooth, ivory and antler objects in the past, we assume that similar... more
Commentatio Vicipaedica Latina de Iacobo Quarterio (Jacques Cartier), ab Andrea Dalby aliisque auctoribus scripta (vide indicem auctorum)
This chapter introduces a global perspective on the analysis of faunal and worked bone assemblages through the adoption of an integrative approach. Using a series of Pre-Contact Iroquoian sites from southern Quebec (Canada) as a case... more
The McDonald and Droulers sites, located in Southwestern Quebec, are village settlements of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians dating from the fifteenth century A.D. The collections from these sites contain a group of 11 bone projectile points... more
Recent Bayesian modeling of new high-precision AMS dates has caused a revision of the Iroquoian chronology of northern New York. The Iroquoian occupation is now estimated to date between AD 1425-1520, with no good evidence for... more
On considère depuis longtemps les Iroquoiens du Saint-Laurent comme culturellement distincts des autres groupes iroquoiens, une position soutenue par la disparition de leurs manifestations caractéristiques au milieu du xvi e siècle. Dans... more
A routine Phase 1 archaeological survey for a proposed dairy farm operation discovered the likely location of a lost Iroquoian Village. The Fulton Site was first described by archaeologists more than 100 years ago, based on reports of... more
This paper lays out the evidence for contact between the Balsam Lake region in south central Ontario and the St. Lawrence valley, in the late 15th to late 16th centuries. An important issue is the variability in the nature and scale of... more
Monitoring and data recovery documented portions of a 14th century St. Lawrence Iroquoian village site thought long lost to residential and agricultural development.
This paper examines the occurrence and distribution of a new ceramic motif among the Upper Trent Valley Huron-Wendat of the mid 16th century: stamped horizontal bars on the neck of the vessel. I suggest that the motif originally occurred... more
ENGLISH: It is rare to find bone tools on prehistoric sites in Québec. However, a large quantity were uncovered in excavating the McDonald and Mailhot-Curran sites and expecially the Droulers site, three Iroquoian villages in the... more
Rio de Janeiro 1992 > UN Year of Indigenous People summit & UN General Assembly 1992 > the CMPCC summit 2010 of Climate Change and Mother Earth's Rights: the long pursuit of Hopi to get their ethnoclimatology investigated. Rio de... more
Between ca. A.D. 1350-1550, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in New York State were home to no less than three communities of people who produced an Iroquoian material culture. Reconnaissance survey since the mid-nineteenth century has... more
ENGLISH: The McCord Museum has a large number of prehistoric archaeological collections from throughout Québec and North America. Since most of these collection are the result of chance discoveries made many years ago, they have long been... more