J P Hart

Biographic Data

ID13092
NAMEJ P Hart
GIVEN NAMESJ P
FAMILY NAMEHart
SIGNATUREHART J P
AFFILIATIONSNew York State Museum
ORCID0000-0003-2009-0624
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS514
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14

  • Dietary entanglements: A meta-analysis of archaeological human and dog bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes

    Open AccessJ P Hart, Robert S FeranecARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026

  • Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA

    J P Hart, Krista Dotzel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2026References: 50

  • Smoking Pipes as Indicators of Sociopolitical Changes in Huron-Wendat Social Networks

    Open AccessJ P Hart, Jasmine Birch et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2025References: 43

    Ceramic smoking pipes are among the most distinctive artifacts recovered from Iroquoian sites dating from AD 1350 to 1650 in what is today New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In this study, we conduct network analyses of pipe forms to examine assemblages of relations among the ancestral and colonial-era Huron-Wendat during a period of coalescence, conflict, and confederacy formation. We bring these networks based on pipe form together with previous ne…

  • Farmers with a Taste for Fish: New Insights into Iroquoian Foodways at the Dawson Site

    Open AccessKarine Taché, Roland Tremblay et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2025References: 57

    Iroquoian groups inhabiting the St. Lawrence Valley in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD practiced agriculture and supplemented their diet with fish and a variety of wild plants and terrestrial animals. Important gaps remain in our knowledge of Iroquoian foodways, including how pottery was integrated to culinary practices and the relative importance of maize in clay-pot cooking. Lipid analyses carried out on 32 potsherds from the Dawson si…

  • Evaluating the Timing of Early Village Development in New York: More Dates From Classic New York Sites

    Open AccessJasmine Birch, W Manning et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2024References: 25

    Five sites in present-day New York have played important roles in archaeological narratives surrounding the development of settled village life in northeastern North America. Excavated in the mid-twentieth century, the Roundtop, Maxon-Derby, Sackett or Canandaigua, Bates, and Kelso sites include evidence related to the transition from semisedentary settlement-subsistence patterns during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries AD to those associa…

  • Effects of charring on squash (Cucurbita L) seed morphology and compression strength: Implications for paleoethnobotany

    Open AccessJ P HartARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Cited by: 1References: 9

  • Updating the Classic New York Lamoka Lake and Scaccia Sites: Refined Chronologies Through Ams Dating and Bayesian Modeling

    Open AccessJ P Hart, Jasmine Birch et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2023References: 47

    The Lamoka Lake and Scaccia sites in present-day New York have played important roles in the development of archaeology in New York, and in the case of Lamoka Lake, in eastern North America. Lamoka Lake is the type site for the “Archaic” period in eastern North American culture history and the “Late Archaic” “Lamoka phase” in New York culture history. The Scaccia site is the largest “Early Woodland” “Meadowood phase” site in New York and has the …

  • Resetting Archaeological Interpretations of Precontact Indigenous Agriculture: Maize Isotopic Evidence from Three Ancestral Mohawk Iroquoian Villages

    Open AccessJ P Hart, Susan Winchell-SweeneyARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2023Cited by: 1References: 61

    Archaeologists working in eastern North America typically refer to precontact and early postcontact Native American maize-based agriculture as shifting or swidden. Based on a comparison with European agriculture, it is generally posited that the lack of plows, draft animals, and animal manure fertilization resulted in the rapid depletion of soil nitrogen. This required Indigenous farmers to move their fields frequently. In Northern Iroquoia, depl…

  • A pre-Hispanic canoe or Wampo burial in Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

    Open AccessAlberto E Pérez, R Moulian et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2022

    The burial of Individual 3 at the Newen Antug site, a young adult woman, with a pottery grave offering characteristic of the Late Pottery period and dated to 880 years BP, is an indirect burial in a wooden structure. The form and design comprise a wooden wampo or small canoe, or a symbolic representation of one, a metaphor in current and historical Mapuche society for the voyage to the final abode of the dead, located beyond a water body which mu…

  • Tracing Maize History in Northern Iroquoia Through Radiocarbon Date Summed Probability Distributions

    Open AccessJ P HartARTICLEOpen Archaeology2022Cited by: 2References: 22

    The evolution of maize as an organism, its spread as an agricultural crop, and the evolution of Native American maize-based agricultural systems are topics of research throughout the Western Hemisphere. Maize was adopted in Northern Iroquoia, comprising portions of present-day New York, Ontario, and Québec by 300 BC. By the fourteenth-century AD, maize accounted for >50 to >70% of ancestral Iroquoian diets. Was this major commitment to maize agri…

  • Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Dating of Meadowcroft Rockshelter Maize

    Open AccessJ P Hart, J M AdovasioARTICLERadiocarbon2022Cited by: 1References: 35

    The Meadowcroft Rockshelter in southwestern Pennsylvania is best known for its pre-Clovis occupation. Potentially important for later times is the recovery of maize macrobotanical remains from higher strata dating as early as the 4th century BC based on radiometric radiocarbon ( 14 C) dates on wood charcoal. These remains have been considered to be potentially as old as the earliest microbotanical evidence for maize in Michigan, New York and Québ…

  • Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds from the Late Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Century AD Ancestral Oneida Diable Site, New York

    Open AccessJ P HartARTICLEEthnobiology Letters2022Cited by: 2References: 3

    The ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and contemporary literatures all suggest that common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) was an important component of Northern Iroquoian agronomic systems and diets. Seemingly at odds with this is the sparse occurrence of whole and partial common bean seeds on fourteenth through seventeenth century AD village sites. The recovery of a large quantity of whole and partial bean seeds from the ancestral Oneida Diable site, da…

  • The effects of charring on common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) seed morphology and strength

    Open AccessJ P HartARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021Cited by: 3References: 20

    Bean (Phaseolus L. spp.) is one of three crops along with maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) and squash (Cucurbita L. spp.) that dominated Native American agricultural systems throughout the Western Hemisphere. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) was the species present in northeastern North America and was the last of the three crops to be adopted there. Common bean macrobotanical remains become archaeologically visible as charred whole seeds and mor…

  • Radiocarbon and Artifactual Evidence for Early 17th Century A.D. Dutch Activity at the Site of Fort Orange, Albany, New York, USA

    W Manning, Paul R Huey et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2021Cited by: 2References: 16

    Dutch exploitation of the upper Hudson River Valley initiated with Henry Hudson’s voyage in 1609 a.d. This began a period of resource exploitation by the Dutch that lasted until 1664 when the English took what had become known as New Netherland from the Dutch. The Dutch formed trade relations with Native Americans in the upper Hudson Valley and beyond that focused primarily on beaver and other animal pelts. No Dutch archaeological sites dating to…

  • Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

    Open AccessJasmine Birch, J P HartARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2021Cited by: 9References: 49

    We employ social network analysis of collar decoration on Iroquoian vessels to conduct a multiscalar analysis of signaling practices among ancestral Huron-Wendat communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Our analysis focuses on the microscale of the West Duffins Creek community relocation sequence as well as the mesoscale, incorporating several populations to the west. The data demonstrate that network ties were stronger among populations i…

  • Early Maize in Northeastern North America: A Comment on Emerson and Colleagues

    Open AccessJ P Hart, William A Lovis et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2021Cited by: 5References: 8

    Emerson and colleagues (2020) provide new isotopic evidence on directly dated human bone from the Greater Cahokia region. They conclude that maize was not adopted in the region prior to AD 900. Placing this result within the larger context of maize histories in northeastern North America, they suggest that evidence from the lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley for earlier maize is 'enigmatic' and 'perplexing.' Here, we review that evid…

  • Reassessing an inferred Iroquoian village removal sequence in the Mohawk River Basin, New York, USA

    Open AccessJ P HartARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2020Cited by: 4References: 25

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

    Open AccessJ P Hart, Susan Winchell-Sweeney et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2019

    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 geographica…

  • Radiocarbon Dating the Iroquoian Occupation of Northern New York

    Open AccessTimothy J Abel, Jessica L Vavrasek et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2019Cited by: 5References: 24

    The results of Bayesian analysis using 43 new high-precision AMS radiocarbon dates on maize, faunal remains, and ceramic residues from 18 precontact Iroquoian village sites in Northern New York are presented. Once thought to span AD 1350-1500, the period of occupation suggested by the modeling is approximately AD 1450-1510. This late placement now makes clear that Iroquoians arrived in the region approximately 100 years later than previously thou…

  • Social Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics

    Open AccessJasmine Birch, Jennifer Birch et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2018Cited by: 16References: 65

    The Wendat (Huron) and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) confederacies of northeastern North America are often presented as functionally equivalent political formations despite their having distinct cultural traits and unique geopolitical and developmental histories. In this article we employ social network analysis of collar decoration on ceramic vessels both to examine organizational differences in the social network that composed each group and to eval…

  • New Trends in Prehistoric North-eastern North American Agriculture Evidence: A View from Central New York

    J P HartCHAPTEROxford Handbook of the…2016

    A primary focus of research on plant use by Native Americans in temperate north-eastern North America has been on the adoption of agricultural crops domesticated elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. The adoption of the triad maize, common bean, and squash, particularly, has been seen as transformative—changing mobile hunter-gatherers into sedentary or semi-sedentary agriculturists. Based on a decade and a half of research, focused on central New …

  • Comment on Cook and Comstock's “Evaluating the Old Wood Problem in a Temperate Climate: A Fort Ancient Case Study“

    Open AccessJ P Hart, K C NolanARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2015

    In their recent report, Cook and Comstock (2014) purport to address the "old wood" problem in temperate eastern North America. Here we point out several interpretive and analytical errors in their work. We conclude that careful selection of wood charcoal for radiocarbon assay can result in accurate chronology for events of interest. However, this does not obviate the need to critically assess the extant database of wood charcoal dates in any chro…

  • Fishing for Dog Food: Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Insights on the Freshwater Reservoir in Northeastern North America

    Open AccessWilliam A Lovis, J P HartARTICLERadiocarbon2015Cited by: 3References: 32

    A review of current research reveals multiple lines of evidence suggesting that no single freshwater reservoir offset (FRO) correction can be applied to accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) ages obtained on carbonized food residue from cooking vessels. Systematically evaluating the regional presence, magnitude, and effects of a freshwater reservoir effect (FRE) is a demonstrably difficult analytic problem given the variation of ancient carbon rese…

  • Charlemagne's Summit Canal: An Early Medieval Hydro-Engineering Project for Passing the Central European Watershed

    Open AccessChristoph Zielhofer, Eva Leitholdt et al.ARTICLEPLoS ONE2014

    The Central European Watershed divides the Rhine-Main catchment and the Danube catchment. In the Early Medieval period, when ships were important means of transportation, Charlemagne decided to link both catchments by the construction of a canal connecting the Schwabian Rezat and the Altmühl rivers. The artificial waterway would provide a continuous inland navigation route from the North Sea to the Black Sea. The shortcut is known as Fossa Caroli…

  • A Re-Evaluation of the Reliability of AMS Dates on Pottery Food Residues from the Late Prehistoric Central Plains of North America: Comment on Roper (2013)

    Open AccessJ P Hart, William A LovisARTICLERadiocarbon2014Cited by: 6References: 5

    Ancient carbon reservoirs in freshwater bodies have the potential to introduce ancient carbon into charred cooking residues adhering to pottery wall interiors when aquatic organisms are parts of cooked resource mixes. This ancient carbon results in old apparent ages when these cooking residues are subjected to accelerator mass spectrometry dating, the so-called freshwater reservoir effect (FRE). Roper's (2013) assessment of the FRE on 14 C ages f…