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Comments on “The Huron and Lalonde Occupations of Ontario”*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

J. N. Emerson  and
Robert E. Popham
J. N. Emerson
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Robert E. Popham
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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In his systematic analysis and delineation of a Lalonde focus in southern Ontario, Ridley (1952) has made an important contribution to our knowledge of the prehistoric Iroquoian occupations of a region as yet ill-represented in the archaeological literature. However, the writers do not find themselves in agreement with Ridley's inclination to consider the Lalonde diagnostic high collar ware “to be the ancestor of the late Mohawk, Onondaga and Susquehannock collared vessel” (p. 205). Evidently considerable antiquity would have to be assigned to Lalonde if it were to be the prototype for such a profound metamorphosis. On the other hand, it is felt that the possibility of a late prehistoric status for this focus and a cultural position as a stage of “developmental Huron” should not be rejected despite the clear cut differences between Lalonde and contact Huron which Ridley has shown in his trait analysis. The remarks which follow are offered to substantiate this point of view. Some of the data presented have not yet been published and were largely unknown to Ridley (Emerson, 1952).

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , October 1952 , pp. 162 - 164
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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Footnotes

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This article was written before the appearance of “The Fallis Site,” American Antiquity, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1952.

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