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Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America

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Manning, Sturt W., Birch, Jennifer, Conger, Megan A., Dee, Michael W., Griggs, Carol, Hadden, Carla S., Hogg, Alan G., Ramsey, Christopher Bronk +3 more·2018·Science Advances
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aav0280PMC PMC6281431
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Radiocarbon data suggest the need to reconsider current dates and assumptions for contact-era Iroquoian history.

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  • Indigenous sites in North America with strong, well-replicated connections with European trade goods and their date ranges, or association with historically attested episodes, yield compatible 14C dated calendar age ranges.

    “Indigenous sites with strong, well-replicated, connections with European trade goods and their date ranges, or association with historically attested episodes (like Samuel de Champlain spending a winter at a site), yield compatible 14 C dated calendar age ranges”

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    The Results (Warminster; page unavailable) report a radiocarbon range of 1585–1624 compatible with Champlain’s possible 1615–1616 visit, while cautioning that the dates do not prove the site’s historical identification. The paper does not establish the same compatibility for trade-good-based date ranges: the Discussion says a chronology based on the presence or absence of trade goods was off by about 50–100 years. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Manning, S. W., Birch, J., Conger, M. A., Dee, M. W., Griggs, C., Hadden, C. S., Hogg, A. G., Ramsey, C. B., Sanft, S., Steier, P., & Wild, E. M.
Affiliations
  • Cornell University (US)
  • University of Georgia (US)
  • University of Groningen (NL)
  • University of Waikato (NZ)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • University of Vienna (AT)
Corresponding author
Manning, Sturt W.
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Venue
Science Advances
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2018-12-07
Volume
4
Issue
12
Pages
eaav0280-eaav0280
ISSN
2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1126/sciadv.aav0280
PMC
PMC6281431
OpenAlex
W2902169011
Cited by
54
References
78
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 1
FWCI
6.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
cc-by-nc
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  • Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Phaidra (Universität Wien) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
  • University of Georgia
  • College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University
  • National Science Foundation (1727802)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Archaeological and Geological Studies
Keywords
radiocarbon dating, European contact, southern Ontario, 16th century, violent conflict, community coalescence, chronology

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