ANT317H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Battlement
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Know central ontario stuff like pickering and glen meyer. Settlement pattern: nucleated villages: some palisades, long houses, middens. Only direct evidence we have about family and household organization: longhouses were observed by the french and described 1620-1649 and this information can be pushed back. Length 25-125m: vary through time and size of extended family. Matrilineal at time of contact: clan membership from mother descent traced through the female line. Matrilocal: married couple resides with the woman"s family. Matriarchal: ultimate power lies with a council of senior women. House 8: hole digging vary with sites, hearths run down the middle of the house, 10 families = 40-50 people, two family share a hearth. Occupied mainly in the winter and will disperse during other season. Body heat can heat the house as much as the hearth: cut down on smoke and consumption of firewood.
