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Migration in Prehistory: Princess Point and the Northern Iroquoian Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gary W. Crawford  and
David G. Smith
Gary W. Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6Canada
David G. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6Canada
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Abstract

Snow has recently challenged the in situ theory of the origins of the Northern Iroquois, arguing that it is a controlling model that does not account for certain linguistic, social, ceramic, and settlement anomalies he identifies in the record of prehistoric Iroquoian development. He proposes a migration model that purports to respond to these anomalies. Data recently gathered from a project focusing on the Princess Point Complex of southern Ontario shed light on Snow’s hypothesis for a migration after A.D. 900. These new data do not support Snow’s migration scenario, at least as this model concerns Ontario and Princess Point.

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Snow ha desafiado recientemente la teoría de los orígenes in situ de los iroqueses norteños, arguyendo que es un modelo dominante que no explica ciertas anomalias lingüisticas y sociales, así también como anomalias en los asentamientos y en la cerámica que él identifica en los documentos del desarrollo prehistórico iroqués. El propone un modelo do migración que intenta responder a estas anomalías. Datos recientemente recolectados en un proyecto que se centra en el complejo Princess Point del sur de Ontario clarifican la hipótesis de una migración después del 900 a.D. Esta información no sustenta la teoría de la migración de Snow, por lo menos en lo que concierne a Ontario y Princess Point.

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American Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 782 - 790
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1996

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