Archaeology and the Evolution of the Cultural Traditions of 16th-17th Century Wendat Sites

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

In Ontario a great deal of early contact period archaeology along the northern shore of Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay has uncovered large sites related to the settlement of this area by the Wendat Nation from circa A.D. 1500 to A.D.1649. This session will elaborate on developments that have recently occurred regarding the identification of significant Huron-Wendat sites and events. The Huron-Wendat Nation is a First Nation whose community and reserve today is located at Wendake, Quebec in Canada. The Huron-Wendat Nation were greatly tested by famine, conflicts and contagious diseases during the early contact period. Dispersed from their homeland, Huronia, after 1650 they had relocated in the province of Quebec, just north of Quebec City as well as in the United States.

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Documents

Closing Pandora’s Box: From Salvage Archaeology to In-Situ Preservation of Contact Period Aboriginal Sites in Ontario (2014)

Fish and Fowl: An examination of changes in Wendat subsistence practices from the sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries (2014)

Incorporating historic archaeology to inform osteological interpretations of the Kleinburg ossuary skeletal collection (2014)

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, a late 17th century Wendat mission in the Quebec city area (2014)

Respecting the Past: Archaeology and Aboriginal Burial Grounds (2014)

Wendat Use of Introduced Copper-Base Metal: Evolution of forms and motifs from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (2014)