An Updated Radiocarbon Chronology of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition in Southern Ontario: Regional Variation in the Dynamics of Cultural Change

Author(s): James Conolly; Daniel Smith

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Middle to Late Woodland transition in southern Ontario extends over approximately 500 years and encompasses several changes in subsistence and settlement patterns, ritual practices, and ceramic and lithic crafting traditions. The last major review of the radiocarbon chronology related to these changes was over 20 years ago. New data combined with methodological advances in analytical modelling of radiocarbon dates encourages the revisiting of the chronology of this period to build on our understanding of patterns of change. In this paper I update the radiocarbon chronology of the transition, identify regional variation in the timing of key elements of cultural change, and discuss how the patterning informs understanding of the emergence of Late Woodland village communities during the twelfth century.

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An Updated Radiocarbon Chronology of the Middle to Late Woodland Transition in Southern Ontario: Regional Variation in the Dynamics of Cultural Change. James Conolly, Daniel Smith. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450571)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -141.504; min lat: 42.553 ; max long: -51.68; max lat: 73.328 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 23678