A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500–1650
A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500–1650
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GBPA Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500–1650, reconstructs the population history of the Wendat-Tionontaté (Huron-Petun) people using archaeological, paleodemographic, historical, and epidemiological research. This book argues that the Wendat-Tionontaté occupied southern Ontario for thousands of years and that maize agriculture was gradually adopted by groups who were not experiencing population pressure, but who were simply interested in supplementing their hunting, gathering, and fishing diet with a reliable food that could also be stored to avert winter famine deaths. The book demonstrates that gradual population growth followed the adoption of maize agriculture, but that rapid population growth did not occur until the fourteenth century, encouraged by the colonization of new lands. The book also documents and explains why epidemic diseases of European origin did not occur among the Wendat-Tionontaté and other Native peoples of eastern North America until the 1630s.
- First population history of a Native American group from ancient times to European contact
- Provides estimates of the actual population of Wendat-Tionontaté for several centuries
- Argues that population growth did not cause or immediately follow the adoption of maize agriculture by ancestral Wendat-Tionontaté
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May 2008Hardback
9780521440301
312 pages
236 × 162 × 21 mm
0.56kg
22 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Native American Population History: Part II. The Wendat-Tionontaté:
- 1. Names
- 2. The people
- 3. The land - Wendake
- 4. Study area
- 5. Settlement pattern
- 6. Subsistence
- 7. Life and death
- 8. Sociopolitics, trade, and warfare
- 9. Wendat-Tionontaté history
- Part III. Pre-Industrial Demography:
- 1. Theories of population change
- 2. Culture history and population change
- 3. Pre-industrial demography
- Part IV. Archaeological Methods for Estimating Population Aize:
- 1. Middle-range theory in archaeology
- 2. Carrying capacity
- 3. Population density
- 4. Historical census
- 5. Artifacts and food remains
- 6. Burials
- 7. Settlement remains
- Part V. Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté Population:
- 1. Seventeenth-century observations
- 2. Iroquoian population research
- 3. Estimating Wendat-Tionontaté population change from archaeological data
- 4. Site data
- 5. Identification of village sites
- 6. Representativeness of site sample
- 7. Site dating
- 8. Ontario Iroquoian chronology
- 9. Site periodization
- 10. Site duration
- 11. Village size data
- 12. Hearth counts
- 13. Site growth and contemporaneity
- 14. Relative Wendat-Tionontaté population estimates
- 15. Absolute Wendat-Tionontaté population estimates
- Part VI. Pre-Contact Population of the Wendat-Tionontaté:
- 1. Wendat origins
- 2. Middle woodland baseline
- 3. Adoption of maize agriculture
- 4. Early Iroquoian population growth
- 5. Uren colonization
- 6. Middleport population explosion
- 7. Late pre-contact population nucleation and sociopolitical change
- Part VII. Wendat-Tionontaté Depopulation:
- 1. Sixteenth-century Wendat-Tionontaté population
- 2. Seventeenth-century Wendat-Tionontaté population
- Conclusions.
