A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650, reconstructs the population history of the Wendat-Tionontaté (Huron-Petun) people using archaeological, paleodemographic, historical, and epidemiological research. This book argues that the Wendat-Tionontaté occupied southern Ontario for thousands of years and that maize agriculture was gradually adopted by groups who were not experiencing population pressure, but who were simply interested in supplementing their hunting, gathering, and fishing diet with a reliable food that could also be stored to avert winter famine deaths. The book demonstrates that gradual population growth followed the adoption of maize agriculture, but that rapid population growth did not occur until the fourteenth century, encouraged by the colonization of new lands. The book also documents and explains why epidemic diseases of European origin did not occur among the Wendat-Tionontaté and other Native peoples of eastern North America until the 1630s.
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"Gary Warrick's population history of the Wendat-Tiononataté (Huron-Petun) is a must read for all scholars of Native American demographic history. His historiographic analysis of population numbers combined with a critical archaeological assessment of prehistoric population estimates make for a compelling argument that, although devastating, infectious diseases were a late introduction to the region. Disease outbreaks postdated indirect contact by nearly 100 years and direct contact by at least 20 years." -Anne F. Ramenofsky, University of New Mexico
"The rare peculiarities of Northern Iroquoian archaeology make the study of population history possible even in the absence of documentary sources. Gary Warrick's landmark study of the Huron-Petun is in the grand tradition of Canadian scholarship founded by Bruce G. Trigger, a foundation upon which much future scholarship will certainly be based. While future research will no doubt lead to revisions here than there, as a whole this book is certain to be an enduring classic." -Dean R. Snow, Penn State University
"Garry Warrick's idea of 'community-based archaeology', as evinced in this beautiful book he has given us, offers living people of all traditions a simple way for understanding how other fellow-humans have gone about living. Since Life works in cycles, the wisdom of the Huron-Petun can guide and inspire us all in times to come. As a Huron-Wyandot, I feel that Gary Warrick's respectful, vibrant, future-oriented gaze on my people's tragic history can help my people and other Indigenous peoples come to terms with the grief we have had." -Georges Sioui, University of Ottawa
"In this major study, Warrick (anthropology, Wilfrd Laurier U., Brantford, Ontario, Canada) offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontat<'e> people of what is now Ontario, Canada. Using a wide range of sources, Warrick reconstructs the population size of the Wendat-Tionantat<'e> over a lengthy period, with detailed discussion of the shifts in family size, in part through the development of maize agriculture. The process of determining population size and change from archaeology, and the theory of population change are discussed at length. A history of Native American population, depopulation, and Iroquoian archaeology are also provided. This is a substantial revision of Warrick's Ph.D. dissertation with the celebrated late archaeologist Bruce Trigger, at McGill U., Canada, and will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of Native American history and culture." -Book News Inc
"In this major study, Warrick offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontaté people of what is now Ontario, Canada." -Reference & Research Book News
"Overall, Warrick has written a well-researched and cogently argued book." -Roger M. Carpenter, Canadian Journal of History
"Warrick previously studied under the late Bruce Trigger while a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University; this definitive study now makes him Trigger's heir apparent as principal scholar in the realm of Huron-Petun studies." -Timothy D. Willig, The Historian
"The rare peculiarities of Northern Iroquoian archaeology make the study of population history possible even in the absence of documentary sources. Gary Warrick's landmark study of the Huron-Petun is in the grand tradition of Canadian scholarship founded by Bruce G. Trigger, a foundation upon which much future scholarship will certainly be based. While future research will no doubt lead to revisions here than there, as a whole this book is certain to be an enduring classic." -Dean R. Snow, Penn State University
"Garry Warrick's idea of 'community-based archaeology', as evinced in this beautiful book he has given us, offers living people of all traditions a simple way for understanding how other fellow-humans have gone about living. Since Life works in cycles, the wisdom of the Huron-Petun can guide and inspire us all in times to come. As a Huron-Wyandot, I feel that Gary Warrick's respectful, vibrant, future-oriented gaze on my people's tragic history can help my people and other Indigenous peoples come to terms with the grief we have had." -Georges Sioui, University of Ottawa
"In this major study, Warrick (anthropology, Wilfrd Laurier U., Brantford, Ontario, Canada) offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontat<'e> people of what is now Ontario, Canada. Using a wide range of sources, Warrick reconstructs the population size of the Wendat-Tionantat<'e> over a lengthy period, with detailed discussion of the shifts in family size, in part through the development of maize agriculture. The process of determining population size and change from archaeology, and the theory of population change are discussed at length. A history of Native American population, depopulation, and Iroquoian archaeology are also provided. This is a substantial revision of Warrick's Ph.D. dissertation with the celebrated late archaeologist Bruce Trigger, at McGill U., Canada, and will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of Native American history and culture." -Book News Inc
"In this major study, Warrick offers a detailed history of the Wendat- Tionontaté people of what is now Ontario, Canada." -Reference & Research Book News
"Overall, Warrick has written a well-researched and cogently argued book." -Roger M. Carpenter, Canadian Journal of History
"Warrick previously studied under the late Bruce Trigger while a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University; this definitive study now makes him Trigger's heir apparent as principal scholar in the realm of Huron-Petun studies." -Timothy D. Willig, The Historian
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The Wendat-Tionontaté, or the Huron-Petun, occupied southern Ontario, Canada, when they were contacted by the French in the early seventeenth century. This book provides the first population history of a Native American group from their recognizable origins to their first contact with Europeans.
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hearth density, unpalisaded villages, roofed floor area, wall post densities, hearth densities, glass bead assemblages, hearth counts, archaeological settlement data, acute crowd infections, direct contact period, precise size estimates, paleodemographic data, precontact sites, direct historic analogy, past population size, momentary population, absolute population estimates, hearth totals, post density, precontact population estimates, regional population estimates, unregistered sites, precontact villages, early direct contact, village duration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Woodland, Early Iroquoian, Simcoe County, Five Nations, Lawrence Iroquoians, Direct Contact, Ontario Iroquoian, Lake Ontario, North America, Middle Iroquoian, Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté Population, Princess Point, New France, Native American, Victoria County, Wendat-Tionontaté Depopulation, New York State, Credit River, New England, Lake Simcoe, Trent Valley, Dean Snow, New World, Seventeenth-Century Wendat-Tionontaté Population, Georgian Bay Browse Sample Pages:
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hearth density, unpalisaded villages, roofed floor area, wall post densities, hearth densities, glass bead assemblages, hearth counts, archaeological settlement data, acute crowd infections, direct contact period, precise size estimates, paleodemographic data, precontact sites, direct historic analogy, past population size, momentary population, absolute population estimates, hearth totals, post density, precontact population estimates, regional population estimates, unregistered sites, precontact villages, early direct contact, village duration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Woodland, Early Iroquoian, Simcoe County, Five Nations, Lawrence Iroquoians, Direct Contact, Ontario Iroquoian, Lake Ontario, North America, Middle Iroquoian, Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté Population, Princess Point, New France, Native American, Victoria County, Wendat-Tionontaté Depopulation, New York State, Credit River, New England, Lake Simcoe, Trent Valley, Dean Snow, New World, Seventeenth-Century Wendat-Tionontaté Population, Georgian Bay Browse Sample Pages:
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- In Search of Ancient North America: An Archaeological Journey to Forgotten Cultures by Heather Pringle in Back Matter
- The Iroquois (Peoples of America) by Dean Snow in Back Matter
- Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany (New York State Museum Bulletin #494) by John P. Hart in Back Matter
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