The Hamilton Site: A Late Historic Neutral Town

<p>This thesis presents the description, analysis and interpretation of the Hamilton Site (AiHa-5), a large 6-acre Neutral Iroquois town occupied circa 1638 to 1650 A.D. Analysis of the settlement patterns and the material culture clearly indicates historic Neutral occupancy, but a significantly high (64 percent) incidence of shell tempered pottery also occurs. This presence of foreign pottery raised interpretational hypotheses to account for it, and an influx of foreign female potters is seen as the best explanation. Use of ethnohistoric documentation offers several alternatives for the identification of the foreign population. Finally, the possibility that Hamilton represents a Jesuit "mission" site is raised.</p>

Department dc:contributor.department

Anthropology

Year dc:date.issued

1977

Author dc:creator

• Lennox, Anthony Paul

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Noble, Wm. C.

• Anthropology

Dc Identifier Other

opendissertations/5456
6479
2107123

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