ANT317H5 Lecture 8: ANT317 - Topic 8 Study Notes
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Late ontario iroquoian: neutral, 600-350 bp (ad 1400-1650, lawson site, southwold site, clearville site, wolfe creek site. Nanticoke triangular projectile points: neutral made and used thousands of lithic artifacts. Longhouses, palisade, middens: lots of palisade rows, village was expanded once. Little smaller than lawson: double earthworks that go all the way around the village, trench and burm, had a spring - internal water supply. David boyle (1842-1911: report on southwold, founded the royal ontario museum (rom) Sir daniel wilson (1816-1892: one of the first english speaking archaeologists in the world. Archaeology: 1976 parks canada, museum of indian archaeology, uwo, london, ont, project director: w. d. "cyclical" sedentism: ethnographic analogy, pre-contact ontario iroquoian villages and longhouse, modern yanomamo (amazon rain forest, do not live in longhouses, swidden horticulture, cyclically-sedentary villages: autonomous and self-sufficient. Swidden horticulture: clear a forested area, burn the refuse for fertilization, plant crops until soil is exhausted, yanomamo grow plantains - main staple, repeat process in another place.
