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Ontario Archaeology – OA025, 1975

New trends in the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  REID, C. S.
Page Range:  7 – 20
Abstract:  At the tenth-century Boys site, a Pickering branch village in Ontario County, some specific environmental and/or behavioural factors are evident in the dietary practices. In addition, comparisons with other early Ontario Iroquois sites, including a synchronic Glen Meyer village, demonstrate a number of both exclusive and dominant ceramic traits which typify the Pickering branch. Possible adaptive response to a shortage of chert in the area is also apparent, and a palisade construction which is unusual among Ontario Iroquois villages reported on to date appears at Boys. One of the two excavated structures is believed to have served a specialized-possibly ceremonial-function.

The Emergence and Development of the Younge and Ontario Iroquois Traditions
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  STOTHERS, D. M.
Page Range:  21 – 30
Abstract:  Recent research has disclosed that Middle Woodland, Point Peninsula cultural remains are present throughout the Grand River Valley-Niagara Peninsula region of southwestern Ontario. There does not appear to be cultural continuity from this Point Peninsula base to later Princess Point Complex remains, but a strong cultural intrusion into Ontario is postulated sometime after 500 A.D. It is suggested that the close correspondence of the cultural remains of the Younge Tradition and the western branch of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition at all time levels is a reflection of the ethnic identity of the Younge Tradition people as Iroquois. It is furthermore suggested that the Younge Tradition people shifted into southwestern Ontario to be absorbed by late prehistoric Iroquois, and that this cultural displacement was the result of northward intruding Upper Mississippian people and culture.

Investigations of Iroquoian Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at Crawford Lake, Ontario – A Preliminary Report
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  FINLAYSON, W. D., & R. BYRNE
Page Range:  31 – 36
Abstract:  No Abstract

Corn, and the Development of Village Life in Southern Ontario
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  NOBLE, W. C.
Page Range:  37 – 46
Abstract:  The transition to and development of formal village life poses an important research topic in Iroquoian studies. Recent work on corn horticulture and early villages within the Ontario Iroquois Tradition helps answer or shed light on many pertinent questions associated with this topic.

An In-Situ Hypothesis to Explain the Origin of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  PENDERGAST, J. F.
Page Range:  47 – 55
Abstract:  No Abstract

Indian Historians Examine the Prehistory and History of the Iroquois: Problems in Methodology and Records
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  HILL, R., & D. A. GRINDE, jr.
Page Range:  57 – 59
Abstract:  No Abstract

Late Ceramics in Central Eastern Ontario: Iroquois or Algonkin ?
Volume:  OA25
Year:  1975
Author:  MITCHELL, B. M.
Page Range:  61 – 77
Abstract:  No Abstract