Domestic Pottery: Styles, Variation and Social Organization at the Droulers Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Droulers is a prehistoric Saint-Lawrence Iroquois village occupied during the 15th century in Southern Quebec. The site has been excavated by Université de Montréal’s field school since 2010 and the goal of the excavation, under the banner of social archaeology, was to understand the social organization of the village. In continuity with the excavation, my MA thesis aimed to document the social fabric of the group through an intrasite stylistic analysis of domestic pottery. Style can be use to document the social interactions within the village, especially the clan affiliation of the inhabitants. Indeed, the ceramic knowledge was transmitted from mother-to-daughter and the social organization among the Iroquoians revolved around matrilineal kinship. Thus, the interest of ceramic style studies lies in their scope; they help to understand choices made by potters, those being influenced by social constraints. With those premises in mind, my focus was to ultimately understand the variability through two scales: the long-house and the village. My objectives were to make a thorough attribute description of the pottery assemblage, assess if variability was seen within the village, document that variability and interpret it to discuss social organization. This poster will present the outcomes of these objectives.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25588