Avonlea and Athabaskan Migrations
A Reconsideration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9217428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dale Walde (University of Calgary, corresponding author), Dale A Walde |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 198 |
| Pages | 185-197 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/pan.2006.013 |
| OpenAlex | W1529347900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
Following the description of Avonlea projectile points from Saskatchewan in 1961, several researchers proposed an association between the points and Athabaskan migrations from the north. This paper suggests assignment of a single ethnicity to a redefined Avonlea horizon is problematic. Proposals that Avonlea represents Athabaskan people are even more difficult to sustain. Two ceramic wares associated with Avonlea points have antecedents in the Eastern Woodlands. Rock Lake Net/Fabric-Impressed pottery, perhaps produced by Siouan speakers in central Minnesota, appeared some 3,000 radiocarbon years ago, well before the proposed southern migration of Athabaskan peoples. In Alberta, continuities between the Upper Kill and Old Women’s phases in the form of Ethridge Ware suggest Avonlea horizon groups there may have been ancestral to present-day Blackfoot peoples. Participation by Avonlea horizon groups in southeastern British Columbia in the Top of the World Chert quarrying tradition suggests those groups were ancestral to present-day Tunaxa. Avonlea horizon components form a number of regional phases that demonstrate relationships with different external groups. Local adaptations are identifiable throughout the area, suggesting long-term residency rather than migration. Different selfidentifying groups, some of them probably identifiable and certainly not Athabaskans, participated in producing the horizon style
Archaeology · Geography · Horizon · Pottery · Projectile point · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citations per year | 0.38 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2018 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |