Daniel Ionico
In my M.A. research project, I analysed Contact-era ceramic vessels within the Iroquoian Neutral Confederacy. I examined samples from the Christianson (AiHa-2) and Hamilton (AiHa-5) sites, two villages occupied from A.D. 1615-1632 and A.D. 1632-1651 respectively. I employed fine-grained methodologies, such as ceramic petrography, to better understand the material impacts of regional socio-demographic turbulence on ceramic production systems and technical styles.
Currently employed as an Archaeological Technician at Wood PLC helping offer clients Stage 2-4 archaeology assessments in compliance with Ontario heritage laws and regulations.
Supervisors: Dr. Andy Roddick
Currently employed as an Archaeological Technician at Wood PLC helping offer clients Stage 2-4 archaeology assessments in compliance with Ontario heritage laws and regulations.
Supervisors: Dr. Andy Roddick
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I examined pottery production practices at the chronologically sequential Christianson and Hamilton sites through a multi-attribute analysis, ceramic petrography, and oxidation analysis. In this comparative approach, I found the likely presence of more than one community of practice at each site, speaking to the possibility of migration events. I found that a significant degree of continuities in technical style and a slight decrease in skill can speak to an adaptability of ‘open learning’ production communities, where broader numbers of persons held technical knowledge as peripheral non-specialists and they could have taken up the craft during times of community member reconstitutions after epidemics. Through time, conditions of turbulence brought about a greater diversity of practices and styles among communities of production as indicated through an increased blending of alternative practices in local operational chains and a decrease in their regimentation. These alterations are likely produced through ‘micro-histories’ at play within the household production scales constituting each village.
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I examined pottery production practices at the chronologically sequential Christianson and Hamilton sites through a multi-attribute analysis, ceramic petrography, and oxidation analysis. In this comparative approach, I found the likely presence of more than one community of practice at each site, speaking to the possibility of migration events. I found that a significant degree of continuities in technical style and a slight decrease in skill can speak to an adaptability of ‘open learning’ production communities, where broader numbers of persons held technical knowledge as peripheral non-specialists and they could have taken up the craft during times of community member reconstitutions after epidemics. Through time, conditions of turbulence brought about a greater diversity of practices and styles among communities of production as indicated through an increased blending of alternative practices in local operational chains and a decrease in their regimentation. These alterations are likely produced through ‘micro-histories’ at play within the household production scales constituting each village.