ANT317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Iroquois, Northeast Megalopolis, Oak Ridges Moraine
Document Summary
Several communities merging together to form a heavily defended "super-community: more than 2, draper site - 4-5 times bigger than any community situated there before, heavily defended with palisades around the community, don"t use fusion and coalescence interchangeably. In ad 1450-1550 - coalescence of communities at draper site. First expansion: few longhouses attached themselves to the core village, rebuilt 4 rows of palisade. Second expansion: added 5 longhouses, rebuilt 4 rows of palisade, temporary village outside of palisade, hypothesis that these people decided to join in later, third expansion, extended previous expansions - tore down palisades in between. Fourth expansion: extended previous expansions - tore down palisades in between. Fifth expansion: final expansion - added 2 more longhouses, population going from about 500 to 2000 people, ad 1450-1550, moved from draper to sprang site, mantle site. Paradigm: theoretical framework, anthropology does not have a single paradigm - has a number of competing ones.
