Calvert Site : An Interpretive Framework for the Early Iroquoian Village /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hull, Quebec :
Canadian Museum of Civilization,
1997.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.