title: Nation Building and Social Signaling in Southern Ontario: A.D. 1350-1650.
abstract: Pottery is a mainstay of archaeological analysis worldwide. Often, high proportions of the pottery recovered from a given site are decorated in some manner. In northern Iroquoia, late pre-contact pottery and early contact decoration commonly occur on collars-thick bands of clay that encircle a pot and extend several centimeters down from the lip. These decorations constitute signals that conveyed information about a pot's user(s). In southern Ontario the period A.D. 1350 to 1650 witnessed substantial changes in socio-political and settlement systems that included population movement, coalescence of formerly separate communities into large villages and towns, waxing and waning of regional strife, the formation of nations, and finally the development of three confederacies that each occupied distinct, constricted areas. Social network analysis demonstrates that signaling practices changed to reflect these regional patterns. Networks become more consolidated through time ultimately resulting in a "small world" network with small degrees of separation between sites reflecting the integration of communities within and between the three confederacies.
authors.affiliation: Research and Collections Division, New York State Museum, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY, 12230, United States of America.
authors.forename: John P
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2009-0624
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.affiliation: University of Konstanz, Department of Computer & Information Science, Universitätsstraße 10, 78464, Konstanz, Germany.
authors.forename: Termeh
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shafie
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, 250A Baldwin Hall, Jackson Street, Athens, GA, 30602-1619, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Birch
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dermarkar
authors.affiliation: Archaeological Services Inc., 528 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2P9, Canada.
authors.forename: Ronald F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Williamson
mesh_terms: D001106:Archaeology / Q000379:methods*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D044382:Population Groups; D012931:Social Environment