On pottery change and northern Iroquoian origins: An assessment from the Finger Lakes region of central New York

The effects of geographical distances on pottery assemblage similarities: a case study from Northern Iroquoia

“…While it is unclear whether this kind of forced assimilation would have allowed the slave/adoptee to continue the use of natal-identifying What the present results and the earlier SNA make clear is that linking collar/wedge decoration to particular historical ethnic territories is not viable. As with other long-held archaeological traditions (Hart, 2008;Hart andBrumbach, 2003, 2009), this one needs to be reconsidered in favor of more empirically demonstrated patterns made possible by large datasets amenable to analysis various spatial and temporal scales (Knapp and Miroff, 2009). This will include an expansion of the SNA and current analyses based on many more sites.…”

Northern Iroquoian Ethnic Evolution: A Social Network Analysis

“…cal. 3200 BP (Hart and Brumbach 2009;Taché 2005). Collars do not occur on pots with any regularity until after cal.…”

“…We would expect that in aggregated populations, there would be fewer potters than in dispersed populations comprising many nuclear familybased local populations (Hart and Brumbach 2009). Trigger (1981:7) suggested that among the Huron, at least, the high level of pottery making skill indicates reliance by matrifamily members on particularly skilled potters.…”

“…Rather, it is analogous to patterns observed between and among local populations of specific biological species, with continual divergences and convergences (e.g., Williams 1992:14). Local human populations comprise kin groups at various levels of organization and are linked to other such populations through various forms of social interaction (Hart 1999;Hart and Brumbach 2009). These populations exist for varying lengths of time, depending on regional population structure, interpopulation interactions, and changing mobility patterns, among many other factors leading to splitting and fusing over time.…”

“…An alternative to this cladistic model is a rhizotic one derived from the theory of ethnogenesis as presented by Moore (1994). This model suggests that the ethnic groups historically associated with specific territories evolved relatively recently from antecedent groups with varying languages, ethnic identities, and geographical locations (Engelbrecht 1999(Engelbrecht , 2003Hart and Brumbach 2009). Rather than a bifurcating tree, the analogy is one of a tangled bank or braided stream.…”