An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia.

ABSTRACT: Iroquoian villagers living in present-day Jefferson County, New York, at the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River and the east shore of Lake Ontario, played important roles in regional interactions during the fifteenth century AD, as brokers linking populations on the north shore of Lake Ontario with populations in eastern New York. This study employs a social network analysis and least cost path analysis to assess the degree to which geographical location may have facilitated the brokerage positions of site clusters within pan-Iroquoian social networks. The results indicate that location was a significant factor in determining brokerage. In the sixteenth century AD, when Jefferson County was abandoned, measurable increases in social distance between other Iroquoian populations obtained. T

SUBMITTER: Hart JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326549 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature