Coalescent Communities: Settlement Aggregation and Social Integration in Iroquoian Ontario
Coalescent Communities: Settlement Aggregation and Social Integration in Iroquoian Ontario
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联合社区：安大略省易洛魁人的定居聚合和社会融合
作者：
J. Birch
摘要本文探讨了加拿大安大略中南部休伦-温达特族祖先群体的定居聚集过程。在公元世纪，无数的小社区聚集在一起，形成了大型的、坚固的村庄。为了理解这些过程的多尺度分析方法相结合的概念框架，强调跨文化的角度对联合社会，考古学的社区，社会变革的历史轨迹。本报告提供了区域定居点数据，以说明定居点的移动和规模的扩大。为了确定如何形成和维持个别联合社区，一个单一的村庄搬迁序列进行了详细的研究。这个序列说明了人们如何在这些新的社区集合体中建造，居住和谈判家庭和公共空间。对这些地点的职业历史的详细分析表明，随着时间的推移，新的社区身份、公司决策结构和日益增加的社会融合正在形成。这项研究的结果表明，虽然可以记录在区域一级的解决聚集，只有详细的intrasite分析可以确定小规模的变化，在实践中，反映了生活的经验，合并。
Abstract This paper explores processes of settlement aggregation among ancestral Huron-Wendat populations in south-central Ontario, Canada. During the fifteenth century A.D., numerous small communities came together, forming large, fortified village aggregates. In order to understand these processes a multiscalar analytical approach was combined with a conceptual framework emphasizing cross-cultural perspectives on coalescent societies, the archaeology of communities, and historical trajectories of societal change. Regional settlement data are presented to illustrate the movement and increasing size of settlements. In order to determine how individual coalescent communities were formed and maintained, a single village relocation sequence is examined in detail. This sequence illustrates how people constructed, inhabited, and negotiated domestic and public spaces in these new community aggregates. Detailed analyses of the occupational histories of these sites point to the creation of new community-based identities, corporate decision-making structures, and increasing social integration over time. The results of this study demonstrate that while settlement aggregation can be documented at the regional level, only detailed intrasite analyses can identify the small-scale changes in practice that reflect the lived experience of coalescence.