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A population history of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650 / Gary Warrick.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Warrick, Gary A.
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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