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More on Migration in Prehistory: Accommodating New Evidence in the Northern Iroquoian Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Dean R. Snow
Dean R. Snow*
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Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Abstract

Crawford and Smith have developed important new evidence that bears on the hypothesis that the Northern Iroquoians migrated into the lower Great Lakes region sometime after A.D. 900. Clarification of the Princess Point Complex in Ontario forces a revision of the hypothesis. While an Appalachian origin for the Northern Iroquoians and their subsequent migration is not rejected, new evidence strongly suggests that the population shift took place three centuries earlier than I previously proposed. The situation calls for both further refinement of paleodemographic theory and new empirical research into Owasco and other earlier Northern Iroquoian complexes.

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Crawford y Smith han desarrollado nueva e importante evidencia con respecto a la hipótesis de que los iroqueses del norte emigraron hacia el sur de la región de los Grandes Lagos alrededor de 900 d. C. Un reexamen del complejo Princess Point en Ontario amerita la revision de esta hipótesis. Si bien no se rechaza un origen en los Apalaches para los iroqueses del norte ni se descarta su migración subsiguiente, la nueva evidencia sugiere fuertemente que el cambio de población ocurrió tres sighs antes de lo anteriormente propuesto. La situación exige un mayor refinamiento de la teoría paleodemográfica y de las nuevas investigaciones sobre el Owasco y otros complejos de los iroqueses del norte.

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American Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 791 - 796
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1996

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