Research and Collections Division, New York State Museum, 3140 Cultural Education Center, Albany, New York, United States of America.
Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2019 Jan 9;14(1):e0209689. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209689. eCollection 2019.
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.
居住在现今纽约州杰斐逊县圣劳伦斯河源头和安大略湖北岸东海岸的易洛魁村民在公元 15 世纪的区域互动中扮演了重要角色，他们是将安大略湖北岸的人口与纽约东部的人口联系起来的中间人。本研究采用社会网络分析和最小成本路径分析来评估地理位置在多大程度上促进了泛易洛魁社会网络中遗址群的中介地位。结果表明，位置是决定中介地位的一个重要因素。在公元 16 世纪，当杰斐逊县被遗弃时，其他易洛魁人群之间的社会距离明显增加。这些结果增加了我们对公元 15 世纪和 16 世纪 AD 北部易洛魁社会动态景观的理解，补充了最近对位于地缘政治边界沿线的人口在区域互动网络中所扮演角色的其他分析。
