Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction and theoretical orientation
  • The status of middle range theory
  • Rethinking middle range theory
  • Analogy and interpretive theory
  • The interpretive pyramid
  • ch. 2. An historical overview of early Iroquoian research
  • Early Iroquoian ethnographic archaeology
  • Early Iroquoian chronological-classification archaeology
  • Early Iroquoian spatial archaeology
  • ch. 3. An introduction to the Calvert Site
  • Location and physical setting
  • History of investigation of the Calvert Site
  • The Calvert data base:
  • Artifactual data
  • Settlement data
  • Ecofactual data
  • ch. 4. The environmental setting of the Calvert Site
  • Physiography
  • Glacial history
  • Topography
  • Drainage
  • Climate
  • Soils
  • Flora and fauna:
  • Mammals
  • Fish
  • Birds
  • Reptiles and amphibians
  • Flora
  • Natural areas:
  • Dorchester Swamp
  • Foster ponds and mud lakes
  • Historic vegetation
  • Definition of microenvironments:
  • The Sandy Upland Plateua
  • The Thames River, Dorchester Swamp Creek, and associated floodplains
  • The Dorchester Swamp
  • The Upland Forests
  • The Glacial Ponds
  • ch. 5. The occupational history of the Calvert Site
  • Analytical method
  • Analysis of occupational history:
  • Stratigraphic analysis
  • Spatial organization of structures and features
  • Ceramic cross-mend analysis
  • Chronometric dating
  • House wall post densities as an index of length of occupation
  • Summary of occupational history:
  • House 1
  • The early phase
  • The middle phase
  • Problematic structures
  • Ch. 6. Domestic life in the Calvert community : economy
  • Faunal analysis:
  • Faunal identification and taxonomic abundance
  • Faunal remains by zoological class
  • Butchering evidence
  • Floral analysis:
  • Methodology and sampling
  • Results
  • Carbonized wood
  • Seasonality:
  • Faunal seasonality indices
  • Floral seasonality indices
  • Catchment analysis
  • ch. 7. Domestic life in the Calvert community : technology
  • Lithic technology:
  • Lithic raw materials (cherts)
  • Debitage analysis
  • Flake morphology and reduction sequences
  • Results
  • Chipped stone tool analysis
  • Rough and ground stone tool analysis
  • Discussion
  • Lithic assemblage variability
  • Ceramic technology:
  • Background
  • Methodology and results
  • Juvenile ceramics
  • Smoking pipes
  • Fired clay mass
  • Bone, antler, and shell technology
  • Feature function and formation:
  • Previous feature analyses
  • Ethnohistoric data
  • Experimental data
  • Feature analysis
  • Refuse disposal technology:
  • Refuse disposal theory
  • Refuse disposal at the Calvert Site
  • Ceramic cross-mends and waste streams
  • Building technology
  • settlement pattern analysis:
  • Ethnohistorical, archaeological, and experimental data
  • Settlement pattern data
  • Ch. 8. Social and political organization within and beyond the Calvert community
  • Ethohistorical data on Iroquoian socio-political organization
  • Archaeological models of Iroquoian socio-political development:
  • The determinants of village organization
  • Settlement patterns and socio-political development
  • Forces of change in Iroquoian socio-political development
  • The social and political organization of the Calvert community:
  • House 1
  • The early phase
  • The middle phase
  • The late phase
  • External relationships of the Calvert community:
  • Regional comparisons
  • Chronology of compared sites
  • Ceramic comparisons
  • Settlement pattern comparisons
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • a model of socio-politicl development in the early to middle Iroquoian transition
  • ch. 9. Ritual, belief, and death at the Calvert Site
  • Ethnohistorical background
  • Archaeological evidence of ritual and belief at Calvert:
  • Calendrical ceremonies and feasting
  • Shamanism and curing societies
  • Mortuary practices
  • ch. 10. Summary and conclusions
  • Spatio-temporal analysis
  • Techno-economic analysis
  • Socio-political analysis
  • Cultural analysis.