Houses to Villages: Exploring Late Precontact Communities in the Great Lakes Region

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Structures, especially houses, are focal locations, acting as a venue for a myriad of social actions. Analyzing the size, shape, orientation, and context of houses individually and as a group allows for multiscale interpretations of past communities. This paper explores variation and organization of structures at a series of Late Precontact (ca. AD 1100-1400) village sites in the western Great Lakes region. Specifically, the paper will investigate variation within and among village sites to explore its implications for function, village organization, and community dynamics.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 40049.0