Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Williamson.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of interior Newfoundland is a poorly understood subject, and yet, there are more than 70 Beothuk housepits in the Exploits River Valley, comprising the majority of these features. The topography of these features has been recorded using traditional survey methods, producing poor data for spatial and morphological studies. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Hrynick.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Architectural history relies on the idea that the human-built environment reflects and reinforces cultural ideas about how people view the world. Architecture therefore permits cultural changes to be tracked through time. Despite this, a literature review of past considerations of hunter-gatherer-built environments reveals remarkably little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Patton. M. Gabriel Hrynick. Arthur Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we consider the temporal relationships between dwellings and shell-bearing deposits at the Reversing Falls site in the Maine-Maritimes region of the far Northeast. Shell middens are multitemporal, comprised of the archaeological signatures of historical processes that took place over vastly different durations. They are also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Holly. Christopher Wolff. James Williamson. Jessica Watson.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We report on recent excavations at an unusual Beothuk housepit feature located on Red Indian Lake, in the interior of the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The housepit is remarkable for its large size and hexagonal shape, for having escaped destruction from logging, flooding, and earlier avocational investigations, and for the fact that it does...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Farley.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the nature of cultural change and continuity during the early colonial period (ca. 1615–1637), an understudied period in southern New England. The earliest years of intercultural exchange between Europeans and Native people in the region is believed to have brought sweeping disturbances to Native American lifeways; however,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph (Jay) Waller, Jr..

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site RI 110 on the southern Rhode Island coast has yielded evidence of a large Narragansett Indian settlement occupied between AD 1000 and 1500. Archaeological investigations exposed more than 20 individual *wetus (house sites) within an approximate 0.81 ha (2-acre) portion of the larger site. This paper will describe precontact Narragansett...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Goodby.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Four well-defined Paleoindian house floors radiocarbon dated to 12,600 BP were excavated at the Tenant Swamp site in Keene, New Hampshire. Believed to be a winter occupation during the Younger Dryas, these dwellings were oval in shape and organized in defined zones with a central hearth, a defined work area, and an “empty” space along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Rankin. Peter Ramsden.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation we each draw on our research in diverse societies to illustrate how house structure, layout, and use all participate in creating, signaling, and reinforcing power structures and relationships, both within and between households, and even between communities. Our geographical areas of research encompass southern Ontario’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Gates St-Pierre. Jean-Christophe Ouellet. Claude Chapdelaine.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have been largely interested in documenting the architecture, variability, evolution, and even the symbolism of Iroquoian longhouses for several decades in the Northeast, often using the village or the region as the preferred scale of analysis. However, the study of daily life inside these longhouses has not received the same...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Dorland.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigations of childhood practices in the Great Lakes have emerged through ceramic analysis and skill evaluations. This approach has been effective in tracing direct material interactions of potters and social relations within a communities of practice. However, there is less focus on potters and their relations to the village environment....