Tracing the Distribution of Late 16th and Early 17th Century European Copper Artefacts in Southern Québec and Ontario, Canada
Tracing the Distribution of Late 16th and Early 17th Century European Copper Artefacts in Southern Québec and Ontario, Canada
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追踪 16 世纪末和 17 世纪初欧洲铜制品在加拿大魁北克省南部和安大略省的分布
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2018
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R. Hancock
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L. Pavlish;Konstantina;J. Moreau;R. Farquhar;W. Fox;L. Anselmi;C. Garrad;C. Walker;Gary Warrick;Dean H. Knight;S. Aufreiter;R. Hancock
To understand the nature of trade/exchange of ‘Basque’ copper kettles and their fragments among Indigenous communities from Quebec to Ontario, Canada, we examined 948 copper samples from 75 archaeological sites. We found that 936 samples were sortable into 11 coarse chemical groups: seven biased towards Ontario, three favouring Quebec and only one balanced between the two provinces. This pattern may represent kettles and pieces ‘mostly traded’ or ‘mostly kept’ by Indigenous groups within Quebec. Chemical group distribution within individual provinces is complex. A tentative chronology of copper chemical groups provides additional insight into the complex trading/exchange patterns among the Indigenous groups of southern Ontario.