| This is a re-examination of the settlement pattern of seventeenth century Neutral town, village and hamlet sites within the Fairchild-Big Creeks and Spencer-Bronte Creeks drainages. The updated analysis is intended to take into consideration the questions of the relationships of site size, economic factors and socio-political organization, which have been raised in the years subsequent to earlier studies of the Neutral settlement pattern. GIS is used to tabulate the contents of catchments and comparisons of the results by site size and locations are used to examine the relationships between sites and environmental features.; This analysis confirms existing assumptions about the association of Neutral sites with respect to individual environmental variables, namely streams, elevated locations and well-drained light textured soils. This analysis also reveals differences between the Glass Bead Period 2 and Glass Bead Period 3 site locations indicating greater association with larger streams, population concentration southwards in the Fairchild-Big Creeks site cluster, and movement eastwards into the Spencer-Bronte site cluster.; Keywords: Ontario Archaeology, historic Neutral, Iroquoians, GIS and archaeology, site location, Ontario Iroquoian economy. |
