A population history of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650 /
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
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| Description: | xv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in North American Indian history Cambridge studies in North American Indian history. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6696891 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- 1. Native American Population History
- Iroquoian Archaeology
- Native American Depopulation
- Population Change
- 2. The Wendat-Tionontate
- Names
- The People
- The Land - Wendake
- Study Area
- Settlement Pattern
- Subsistence
- Life and Death
- Sociopolitics, Trade, and Warfare
- Wendat-Tionontate History
- 3. Preindustrial Demography
- Theories of Population Change
- Culture History and Population Change
- Preindustrial Demography
- 4. Archaeological Methods for Estimating Population Size
- Middle-Range Theory in Archaeology
- Carrying Capacity
- Population Density
- Historical Census
- Artifacts and Food Remains
- Burials
- Settlement Remains
- 5. Estimating Wendat-Tionontate Population
- Seventeenth-Century Observations
- Iroquoian Population Research
- Estimating Wendat-Tionontate Population Change from Archaeological Data
- Site Data
- Identification of Village Sites
- Representativeness of Site Sample
- Site Dating
- Ontario Iroquoian Chronology
- Site Periodization
- Site Duration
- Village Size Data
- Hearth Counts
- Site Growth and Contemporaneity
- Relative Wendat-Tionontate Population Estimates
- Absolute Wendat-Tionontate Population Estimates
- 6. Precontact Population of the Wendat-Tionontate
- Wendat Origins
- Middle Woodland Baseline
- Adoption of Maize Agriculture
- Early Iroquoian Population Growth
- Uren Colonization
- Middleport Population Explosion
- Late Precontact Population Nucleation and Sociopolitical Change
- 7. Wendat-Tionontate Depopulation
- Sixteenth-Century Wendat-Tionontate Population
- Seventeenth-Century Wendat-Tionontate Population
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- Index
