LANGUAGES PAST AND PRESENT: ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE APPEARANCE OF NORTHERN IROQUOIAN SPEAKERS IN THE LOWER GREAT LAKES REGION OF NORTH AMERICA

摘要: Archaeological accounts of the spread agriculture tend to favor either (im)migration/demic diffusion or in situ development/stimulus diffusion. Having moved away from early twentieth-century's community-wide migration model for Iroquoian origins Lower Great Lakes region and southern Ontario particular, orthodox archaeological belief over past half-century had come place Northern speakers area since at least 2,000 years ago likely much earlier. In what appear be modified versions older migrationist arguments, contemporary thought within archaeology once more seems allow that wholesale relocations were responsible bringing farming into region. It has been suggested, example, entered as recently middle centuries first millennium A.D. this paper, I recount routes debate taken show appearance maize (Zea mays) agriculture, alongside a few other materials, bound up with documenting arrival Iroquoian-speaking communities. conclude by reiterating cautions advised number researchers how we read ethnicity materials role plays political discourse between First Nations others.