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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 wit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30625191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209689 |
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author | Hart, John P. Winchell-Sweeney, Susan Birch, Jennifer |
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description | 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 geographical location may have facilitated the brokerage positions of site clusters within pan-Iroquoian social networks. The results indicate that location was a significant factor in determining brokerage. In the sixteenth century AD, when Jefferson County was abandoned, measurable increases in social distance between other Iroquoian populations obtained. These results add to our understandings of the dynamic social landscape of fifteenth and sixteenth century AD northern Iroquoia, complementing recent analyses elsewhere of the roles played in regional interaction networks by populations located along geopolitical frontiers. |
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spelling | pubmed-63265492019-01-18 An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia Hart, John P. Winchell-Sweeney, Susan Birch, Jennifer PLoS One Research Article 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 geographical location may have facilitated the brokerage positions of site clusters within pan-Iroquoian social networks. The results indicate that location was a significant factor in determining brokerage. In the sixteenth century AD, when Jefferson County was abandoned, measurable increases in social distance between other Iroquoian populations obtained. These results add to our understandings of the dynamic social landscape of fifteenth and sixteenth century AD northern Iroquoia, complementing recent analyses elsewhere of the roles played in regional interaction networks by populations located along geopolitical frontiers. Public Library of Science 2019-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6326549/ /pubmed/30625191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209689 Text en © 2019 Hart et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hart, John P. Winchell-Sweeney, Susan Birch, Jennifer An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title | An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title_full | An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title_fullStr | An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title_short | An analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century AD Northern Iroquoia |
title_sort | analysis of network brokerage and geographic location in fifteenth-century ad northern iroquoia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30625191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209689 |
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