Ronald F Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 122002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald F Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald F |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Culture |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5763-0826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord
After the Haudenosaunee
All our relations
New insights into early paleoindian (Gainey) associations with proboscideans and canids in the niagara peninsula, southern ontario, canada
This paper presents the results of protein residue and use-wear analyses on stone tools recovered during complete salvage excavations of the Mt. Albion West archaeological site, located in the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario, Canada. Mt. Albion West is an Early Paleoindian (Gainey) locality that yielded evidence of four activity foci and dozens of Early Paleoindian stone tools including one complete and several partial fluted bifaces. Organ…
Strangers No More
In this paper, we consider how institutions of kinship facilitated the integration of peoples originating in the St. Lawrence Valley into ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD. We present some general principles regarding the role of kinship in structuring social relations, processes of population movement, and the integration of newcomers. Data on the distributions and frequencies of characteristic St. La…
Population movements of the Huron-Wendat viewed through strontium isotope analysis
Environmental isotopes can provide information about the composition of groups and the movement of people across landscapes. The archaeological record of Huron-Wendat communities in south-central Ontario is one of numerous drainage-based sequences of small villages among which families or larger population segments moved. These villages amalgamated in the early to mid-sixteenth century into fewer, larger communities. Strontium isotope values (87S…
An Early Woodland Domesticated Chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) Cache From the Tutela Heights Site, Ontario, Canada
A cache of charred, domesticated chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) seeds is reported from the Early Woodland (930-915 cal BC) Tutela Heights site (AgHb-446) in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. This is the northernmost report of the crop, approximately 800 km northeast of Kentucky where the previous northernmost occurrences contemporary with Tutela Heights are reported. The Tutela Heights chenopod dates to about 1,500 years before the …
A History of Ontario Iroquoian Multiple Burial Practice
Steatite characterization using X-ray fluorescence and insights into Northern Iroquoian interregional interaction
Archaeological Resource Management in Toronto
Forming Pots and Community
Patterns of Weaning Among Ancestral Huron-Wendat Communities, Determined From Nitrogen Isotopes
Archaeological evidence of the ancestral Huron-Wendat Nation of Southern Ontario, Canada, shows a population increase from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, suggesting high fertility. Birth timing and infant survival are influenced by mothers' decisions about weaning. This study explores trophic enrichment of δ15N in horizontal dentine slices from 35 deciduous molars (n= 33 dm1,n= 2 dm2) and 39 permanent first molars (M1) representing f…
Maize, Fish, and Deer
Following the entry of Zea mays to northeast North America, Northern Iroquoian populations expanded their numbers and range. Isotopic values from bone collagen have shown fluctuations in reliance on this dietary staple. With permission of the Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake, Quebec, we measured δ13Cenamel, δ13Cdentine and δ15Ndentine from 167 permanent teeth, retained before reburial of their ancestral skeletons, and δ13Ccollagene and δ15Ncollagen…
Navigating ancestral landscapes in the Northern Iroquoian world
Stable dietary isotopes and mtDNA from Woodland period southern Ontario people
Bioarchaeological research must balance scholarly commitment to the generation of new knowledge, descendants' interests in their collective past, and the now common practice of rapid re-interment of excavated human remains. This paper documents the first results of a negotiated protocol built on the retention of one tooth per archaeologically derived skeleton, teeth that can then be used for destructive testing associated with ancient DNA and sta…
What Will Be Has Always Been
General characteristics defining the cultural pattern of Northern Iroquoians included primary reliance on horticulture for subsistence. Perhaps one of the most interesting historical circumstances of northern Iroquoians is the appearance by historic times of an “island” of Iroquoian speakers in the middle of a “sea” of Algonquian speakers. Their origins in the lower Great Lakes region, therefore, have always been of interest to anthropologists, b…
Mantle Site
This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social proces…
Archaeology of Bruce Trigger
Bones of the Ancestors
The Moatfield ossuary
The Positioning of Archaeology within Anthropology
In this paper we argue that archaeologists and anthropologists should be aware of forces that encourage the separation of archaeology from anthropology. Sociological, organizational, and intellectual factors that do not necessarily have disciplinary separation as their logical consequence can nonetheless have a cumulative effect that moves the relationship between the subfields of anthropology in the direction of greater or lesser independence. W…
Snake Hill
Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Aspects of Qur'an Translating to Yoruba (Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft), Band 3
Ernest Renan as a historian of religions
The Eucharist and the Epistle to the Hebrews
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Moatfield ossuary
Stable dietary isotopes and mtDNA from Woodland period southern Ontario people
Bioarchaeological research must balance scholarly commitment to the generation of new knowledge, descendants' interests in their collective past, and the now common practice of rapid re-interment of excavated human remains. This paper documents the first results of a negotiated protocol built on the retention of one tooth per archaeologically derived skeleton, teeth that can then be used for destructive testing associated with ancient DNA and sta…
Navigating ancestral landscapes in the Northern Iroquoian world
Steatite characterization using X-ray fluorescence and insights into Northern Iroquoian interregional interaction
The Positioning of Archaeology within Anthropology
In this paper we argue that archaeologists and anthropologists should be aware of forces that encourage the separation of archaeology from anthropology. Sociological, organizational, and intellectual factors that do not necessarily have disciplinary separation as their logical consequence can nonetheless have a cumulative effect that moves the relationship between the subfields of anthropology in the direction of greater or lesser independence. W…
An Early Woodland Domesticated Chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) Cache From the Tutela Heights Site, Ontario, Canada
A cache of charred, domesticated chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) seeds is reported from the Early Woodland (930-915 cal BC) Tutela Heights site (AgHb-446) in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. This is the northernmost report of the crop, approximately 800 km northeast of Kentucky where the previous northernmost occurrences contemporary with Tutela Heights are reported. The Tutela Heights chenopod dates to about 1,500 years before the …
Patterns of Weaning Among Ancestral Huron-Wendat Communities, Determined From Nitrogen Isotopes
Archaeological evidence of the ancestral Huron-Wendat Nation of Southern Ontario, Canada, shows a population increase from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, suggesting high fertility. Birth timing and infant survival are influenced by mothers' decisions about weaning. This study explores trophic enrichment of δ15N in horizontal dentine slices from 35 deciduous molars (n= 33 dm1,n= 2 dm2) and 39 permanent first molars (M1) representing f…
Maize, Fish, and Deer
Following the entry of Zea mays to northeast North America, Northern Iroquoian populations expanded their numbers and range. Isotopic values from bone collagen have shown fluctuations in reliance on this dietary staple. With permission of the Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake, Quebec, we measured δ13Cenamel, δ13Cdentine and δ15Ndentine from 167 permanent teeth, retained before reburial of their ancestral skeletons, and δ13Ccollagene and δ15Ncollagen…
What Will Be Has Always Been
General characteristics defining the cultural pattern of Northern Iroquoians included primary reliance on horticulture for subsistence. Perhaps one of the most interesting historical circumstances of northern Iroquoians is the appearance by historic times of an “island” of Iroquoian speakers in the middle of a “sea” of Algonquian speakers. Their origins in the lower Great Lakes region, therefore, have always been of interest to anthropologists, b…
Strangers No More
In this paper, we consider how institutions of kinship facilitated the integration of peoples originating in the St. Lawrence Valley into ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD. We present some general principles regarding the role of kinship in structuring social relations, processes of population movement, and the integration of newcomers. Data on the distributions and frequencies of characteristic St. La…
Population movements of the Huron-Wendat viewed through strontium isotope analysis
Environmental isotopes can provide information about the composition of groups and the movement of people across landscapes. The archaeological record of Huron-Wendat communities in south-central Ontario is one of numerous drainage-based sequences of small villages among which families or larger population segments moved. These villages amalgamated in the early to mid-sixteenth century into fewer, larger communities. Strontium isotope values (87S…
Mantle Site
This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social proces…
Archaeology of Bruce Trigger
The Eucharist and the Epistle to the Hebrews
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ernest Renan as a historian of religions
Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Aspects of Qur'an Translating to Yoruba (Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft), Band 3
Snake Hill
The Positioning of Archaeology within Anthropology
In this paper we argue that archaeologists and anthropologists should be aware of forces that encourage the separation of archaeology from anthropology. Sociological, organizational, and intellectual factors that do not necessarily have disciplinary separation as their logical consequence can nonetheless have a cumulative effect that moves the relationship between the subfields of anthropology in the direction of greater or lesser independence. W…
Bones of the Ancestors
The Moatfield ossuary
Archaeology of Bruce Trigger
What Will Be Has Always Been
General characteristics defining the cultural pattern of Northern Iroquoians included primary reliance on horticulture for subsistence. Perhaps one of the most interesting historical circumstances of northern Iroquoians is the appearance by historic times of an “island” of Iroquoian speakers in the middle of a “sea” of Algonquian speakers. Their origins in the lower Great Lakes region, therefore, have always been of interest to anthropologists, b…
Mantle Site
This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social proces…
Stable dietary isotopes and mtDNA from Woodland period southern Ontario people
Bioarchaeological research must balance scholarly commitment to the generation of new knowledge, descendants' interests in their collective past, and the now common practice of rapid re-interment of excavated human remains. This paper documents the first results of a negotiated protocol built on the retention of one tooth per archaeologically derived skeleton, teeth that can then be used for destructive testing associated with ancient DNA and sta…
Navigating ancestral landscapes in the Northern Iroquoian world
Maize, Fish, and Deer
Following the entry of Zea mays to northeast North America, Northern Iroquoian populations expanded their numbers and range. Isotopic values from bone collagen have shown fluctuations in reliance on this dietary staple. With permission of the Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake, Quebec, we measured δ13Cenamel, δ13Cdentine and δ15Ndentine from 167 permanent teeth, retained before reburial of their ancestral skeletons, and δ13Ccollagene and δ15Ncollagen…
Archaeological Resource Management in Toronto
Forming Pots and Community
Patterns of Weaning Among Ancestral Huron-Wendat Communities, Determined From Nitrogen Isotopes
Archaeological evidence of the ancestral Huron-Wendat Nation of Southern Ontario, Canada, shows a population increase from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries, suggesting high fertility. Birth timing and infant survival are influenced by mothers' decisions about weaning. This study explores trophic enrichment of δ15N in horizontal dentine slices from 35 deciduous molars (n= 33 dm1,n= 2 dm2) and 39 permanent first molars (M1) representing f…
A History of Ontario Iroquoian Multiple Burial Practice
Steatite characterization using X-ray fluorescence and insights into Northern Iroquoian interregional interaction
An Early Woodland Domesticated Chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) Cache From the Tutela Heights Site, Ontario, Canada
A cache of charred, domesticated chenopod (Chenopodium berlandierisubsp.jonesianum) seeds is reported from the Early Woodland (930-915 cal BC) Tutela Heights site (AgHb-446) in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. This is the northernmost report of the crop, approximately 800 km northeast of Kentucky where the previous northernmost occurrences contemporary with Tutela Heights are reported. The Tutela Heights chenopod dates to about 1,500 years before the …
Population movements of the Huron-Wendat viewed through strontium isotope analysis
Environmental isotopes can provide information about the composition of groups and the movement of people across landscapes. The archaeological record of Huron-Wendat communities in south-central Ontario is one of numerous drainage-based sequences of small villages among which families or larger population segments moved. These villages amalgamated in the early to mid-sixteenth century into fewer, larger communities. Strontium isotope values (87S…
Strangers No More
In this paper, we consider how institutions of kinship facilitated the integration of peoples originating in the St. Lawrence Valley into ancestral Huron-Wendat communities in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD. We present some general principles regarding the role of kinship in structuring social relations, processes of population movement, and the integration of newcomers. Data on the distributions and frequencies of characteristic St. La…
New insights into early paleoindian (Gainey) associations with proboscideans and canids in the niagara peninsula, southern ontario, canada
This paper presents the results of protein residue and use-wear analyses on stone tools recovered during complete salvage excavations of the Mt. Albion West archaeological site, located in the Niagara Peninsula of Southern Ontario, Canada. Mt. Albion West is an Early Paleoindian (Gainey) locality that yielded evidence of four activity foci and dozens of Early Paleoindian stone tools including one complete and several partial fluted bifaces. Organ…
The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord
After the Haudenosaunee
All our relations
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