Jennifer Birch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3643829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Birch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Birch |
| SIGNATURE | BIRCH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The red shift reconsidered
This study demonstrates how material preference can track processes of identity negotiation, cultural transmission, and political reorganization during periods of social upheaval. It applies social network analysis (SNA) to the distribution of glass bead color types from 96 seventeenth-century archaeological sites across Northern Iroquoia, encompassing present-day New York, Ontario, and Pennsylvania. By using similarity matrices based on bead col…
Negotiating power and community in Early Baekje
During the Three Kingdoms period of Korea, the Han River Basin in Korea—capital of the early Baekje state—experienced major transformations in settlement planning, shaped by the interactions between migratory ruling groups and local commoners amid the emergence of a new sociopolitical order. Previous studies have suggested that the region began as a dispersed cluster of agriculture-based villages which were rapidly consolidated into a capital dom…
Meeting the Urgent Need and Growing Demand for Archaeological Synthesis
Douglas Price-have made the journal our discipline's premier outlet for archaeological synthesis (Feinman and Nicholas 2026).Under their stewardship, the journal became a countervailing force against an ever-expanding range of regional and methodological specializations that create subgroups within our field.While specialization is necessary to improve our knowledge of the human past, it can also isolate practitioners into small communities and d…
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes largely from colonial or imperialist outsiders who mischaracterized them as irrational and violent. This characterization masks the fact that these decentralized groups achieved large-scale strategic coordination in the absence of centralized power. This …
Radiocarbon Database Offers New Perspectives on Ancient Oaxaca - Erratum
Radiocarbon Database Offers New Perspectives on Ancient Oaxaca
We present a dataset of 1,119 radiocarbon dates and their contexts for Oaxaca, Mexico, a best effort to include all published dates, plus hundreds of unpublished samples. We illustrate its potential and limitations with five examples: (1) dated stratigraphy in stream cutbanks show how aggradation, downcutting, and stability responded to global climate and human activities; (2) 14C samples from Late/Terminal Formative contexts allow interregional …
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia
Material Networks and Culture Change
Diachronic social network analysis (SNA) of archaeological data is increasingly being used to frame and explain processes of cultural change in multiple world regions. Whether implicitly or explicitly, such studies foreground the materiality of culture change in an attempt to infer the less-tangible properties of social and cultural dynamics. This chapter considers theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying cultural change through SNA…
Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
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…
Iroquoian Archaeology
An institutional approach for archaeology
An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia
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…
Contact-Era Chronology Building in Iroquoia
Radiocarbon dating is rarely used in historical or contact-era North American archaeology because of idiosyncrasies of the calibration curve that result in ambiguous calendar dates for this period. We explore the potential and requirements for radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis to create a time frame for early contact-era sites in northeast North America independent of the assumptions and approximations involved in temporal constructs based…
Iroquoian Archaeology
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America
Social Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics
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…
Relations de pouvoir et de production au sein des communautés ancestrales Wendat
Durant la fin du XVe et le début du XVIe siècles, les sociétés iroquoiennes du nord-est de l’Amérique du Nord ont été confrontées à une généralisation des conflits et au regroupement des petites communautés villageoises en agglomérations densément peuplées. Régionalement, ces processus résultaient du réalignement du paysage géopolitique et de l’émergence de nations distinctes. Afin d’apprécier la manière dont le regroupement se déploya au niveau …
Relations of power and production in ancestral wendat communities
During the late 15th and early 16th centuries AD, the Iroquoian societies of northeastern North America experienced widespread conflict and the coalescence of small village-communities into densely populated settlements. Regionally, these processes resulted in realignment of the geopolitical landscape and the emergence of distinct nations. To assess how coalescence unfolded at the household level, insights from one well-studied ancestral Wendat c…
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
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…
Coalescent Communities
This paper explores processes of settlement aggregation among ancestral Huron-Wendat populations in south-central Ontario, Canada. During the fifteenth century A.D., numerous small communities came together, forming large, fortified village aggregates. In order to understand these processes a multiscalar analytical approach was combined with a conceptual framework emphasizing cross-cultural perspectives on coalescent societies, the archaeology of…
Coalescent Communities
This paper explores processes of settlement aggregation among ancestral Huron-Wendat populations in south-central Ontario, Canada. During the fifteenth century A.D., numerous small communities came together, forming large, fortified village aggregates. In order to understand these processes a multiscalar analytical approach was combined with a conceptual framework emphasizing cross-cultural perspectives on coalescent societies, the archaeology of…
An institutional approach for archaeology
Social Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics
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…
Contact-Era Chronology Building in Iroquoia
Radiocarbon dating is rarely used in historical or contact-era North American archaeology because of idiosyncrasies of the calibration curve that result in ambiguous calendar dates for this period. We explore the potential and requirements for radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis to create a time frame for early contact-era sites in northeast North America independent of the assumptions and approximations involved in temporal constructs based…
Radiocarbon Database Offers New Perspectives on Ancient Oaxaca
We present a dataset of 1,119 radiocarbon dates and their contexts for Oaxaca, Mexico, a best effort to include all published dates, plus hundreds of unpublished samples. We illustrate its potential and limitations with five examples: (1) dated stratigraphy in stream cutbanks show how aggradation, downcutting, and stability responded to global climate and human activities; (2) 14C samples from Late/Terminal Formative contexts allow interregional …
Breaking Down the “Barbarian” Trope
Early modern history abounds with descriptions of “barbarians,” a term originating in ancient Greece and later applied to people deemed uncivilized. Historical knowledge about these groups comes largely from colonial or imperialist outsiders who mischaracterized them as irrational and violent. This characterization masks the fact that these decentralized groups achieved large-scale strategic coordination in the absence of centralized power. This …
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
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…
Relations of power and production in ancestral wendat communities
During the late 15th and early 16th centuries AD, the Iroquoian societies of northeastern North America experienced widespread conflict and the coalescence of small village-communities into densely populated settlements. Regionally, these processes resulted in realignment of the geopolitical landscape and the emergence of distinct nations. To assess how coalescence unfolded at the household level, insights from one well-studied ancestral Wendat c…
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…
The Contribution of the City University Test (1st and 2nd Editions) in a Clinical Test Laboratory
Comments on the Use of the Standard Pseudoisochromatic Plates and the New Color Test of Lanthony
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…
Coalescent Communities
This paper explores processes of settlement aggregation among ancestral Huron-Wendat populations in south-central Ontario, Canada. During the fifteenth century A.D., numerous small communities came together, forming large, fortified village aggregates. In order to understand these processes a multiscalar analytical approach was combined with a conceptual framework emphasizing cross-cultural perspectives on coalescent societies, the archaeology of…
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
From Prehistoric Villages to Cities
Relations de pouvoir et de production au sein des communautés ancestrales Wendat
Durant la fin du XVe et le début du XVIe siècles, les sociétés iroquoiennes du nord-est de l’Amérique du Nord ont été confrontées à une généralisation des conflits et au regroupement des petites communautés villageoises en agglomérations densément peuplées. Régionalement, ces processus résultaient du réalignement du paysage géopolitique et de l’émergence de nations distinctes. Afin d’apprécier la manière dont le regroupement se déploya au niveau …
Relations of power and production in ancestral wendat communities
During the late 15th and early 16th centuries AD, the Iroquoian societies of northeastern North America experienced widespread conflict and the coalescence of small village-communities into densely populated settlements. Regionally, these processes resulted in realignment of the geopolitical landscape and the emergence of distinct nations. To assess how coalescence unfolded at the household level, insights from one well-studied ancestral Wendat c…
Iroquoian Archaeology
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America
Social Networks and Northern Iroquoian Confederacy Dynamics
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…
An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia
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…
Contact-Era Chronology Building in Iroquoia
Radiocarbon dating is rarely used in historical or contact-era North American archaeology because of idiosyncrasies of the calibration curve that result in ambiguous calendar dates for this period. We explore the potential and requirements for radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis to create a time frame for early contact-era sites in northeast North America independent of the assumptions and approximations involved in temporal constructs based…
Iroquoian Archaeology
An institutional approach for archaeology
Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley
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…
Material Networks and Culture Change
Diachronic social network analysis (SNA) of archaeological data is increasingly being used to frame and explain processes of cultural change in multiple world regions. Whether implicitly or explicitly, such studies foreground the materiality of culture change in an attempt to infer the less-tangible properties of social and cultural dynamics. This chapter considers theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying cultural change through SNA…
The Global Dynamics of Inequality (Gini) project
The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the causes and consequences of inequality that are of relevance to contemporary societies globally
The materiality and temporality of St. Lawrence Iroquoian incorporation in late precolonial northern Iroquoia
Radiocarbon Database Offers New Perspectives on Ancient Oaxaca - Erratum
Radiocarbon Database Offers New Perspectives on Ancient Oaxaca
We present a dataset of 1,119 radiocarbon dates and their contexts for Oaxaca, Mexico, a best effort to include all published dates, plus hundreds of unpublished samples. We illustrate its potential and limitations with five examples: (1) dated stratigraphy in stream cutbanks show how aggradation, downcutting, and stability responded to global climate and human activities; (2) 14C samples from Late/Terminal Formative contexts allow interregional …
The red shift reconsidered
This study demonstrates how material preference can track processes of identity negotiation, cultural transmission, and political reorganization during periods of social upheaval. It applies social network analysis (SNA) to the distribution of glass bead color types from 96 seventeenth-century archaeological sites across Northern Iroquoia, encompassing present-day New York, Ontario, and Pennsylvania. By using similarity matrices based on bead col…
Negotiating power and community in Early Baekje
During the Three Kingdoms period of Korea, the Han River Basin in Korea—capital of the early Baekje state—experienced major transformations in settlement planning, shaped by the interactions between migratory ruling groups and local commoners amid the emergence of a new sociopolitical order. Previous studies have suggested that the region began as a dispersed cluster of agriculture-based villages which were rapidly consolidated into a capital dom…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · History (10 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works)