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A population history of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650 / Gary Warrick.
Penn Museum Library E99.H9 P67 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in North American Indian history
- Studies in North American Indian history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wyandot Indians--History.
- Wyandot Indians.
- Wyandot Indians--Population.
- Wyandot Indians--Social conditions.
- Population.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Ontario--Population.
- Ontario.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Native American Population History 1
- Iroquoian Archaeology 3
- Native American Depopulation 4
- Population Change 5
- 2 The Wendat-Tionontate 7
- Names 8
- The People 9
- The Land - Wendake 12
- Study Area 15
- Settlement Pattern 21
- Subsistence 24
- Life and Death 25
- Sociopolitics, Trade, and Warfare 26
- Wendat-Tionontate History 27
- 3 Preindustrial Demography 32
- Theories of Population Change 32
- Culture History and Population Change 34
- Preindustrial Demography 39
- 4 Archaeological Methods for Estimating Population Size 52
- Middle-Range Theory in Archaeology 52
- Carrying Capacity 55
- Population Density 58
- Historical Census 59
- Artifacts and Food Remains 60
- Burials 62
- Settlement Remains 64
- 5 Estimating Wendat-Tionontate Population 73
- Seventeenth-Century Observations 73
- Iroquoian Population Research 81
- Estimating Wendat-Tionontate Population Change from Archaeological Data 89
- Site Data 90
- Identification of Village Sites 92
- Representativeness of Site Sample 101
- Site Dating 108
- Ontario Iroquoian Chronology 108
- Site Periodization 119
- Site Duration 123
- Village Size Data 123
- Hearth Counts 128
- Site Growth and Contemporaneity 134
- Relative Wendat-Tionontate Population Estimates 138
- Absolute Wendat-Tionontate Population Estimates 141
- 6 Precontact Population of the Wendat-Tionontate 154
- Wendat Origins 154
- Middle Woodland Baseline 160
- Adoption of Maize Agriculture 165
- Early Iroquoian Population Growth 168
- Uren Colonization 173
- Middleport Population Explosion 181
- Late Precontact Population Nucleation and Sociopolitical Change 185
- 7 Wendat-Tionontate Depopulation 192
- Sixteenth-Century Wendat-Tionontate Population 192
- Seventeenth-Century Wendat-Tionontate Population 210.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521440301
- 0521440300
- OCLC:
- 167764093
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- Publisher description
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