{"id":219331,"date":"2025-05-02T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/new-radiocarbon-dates-challenge-colonial-myths-in-eastern-north-america\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:18:34","slug":"new-radiocarbon-dates-challenge-colonial-myths-in-eastern-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=219331","title":{"rendered":"New Radiocarbon Dates Challenge Colonial Myths in Eastern North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>For decades, the presence or absence of European trade goods\u2014glass beads, iron knives, brass kettles\u2014has guided archaeologists in determining whether a North American Indigenous site was occupied before or after European contact. If European objects were found, the site was \u201chistoric.\u201d If not, it was pre-contact. But that tidy timeline is crumbling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg\" width=\"1216\" height=\"804\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:804,&quot;width&quot;:1216,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:385475,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.anthropology.net\/i\/162702633?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null}\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8efb8cf9-edb2-4962-9976-9a80accc9c75_1216x804.jpeg 1456w\" sizes=\"100vw\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">Carbon dating individual tree rings helps archaeologists construct more accurate chronologies for past societies.Tree-rings and Archaeological Wood at Georgia Lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Recent advances<\/span><span> in radiocarbon dating are providing more precise historical chronologies and challenging assumptions about how Indigenous communities responded to European intrusion. Instead of abrupt collapse or assimilation, the new data show stories of continuity, adaptation, and strategic resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople paint the picture that colonization was adopted abruptly\u2014a one-night stay [by a European], and we changed our life completely,\u201d said RaeLynn Butler of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation during a session at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting in Denver. \u201cAnd that\u2019s just not the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the heart of this scientific shift is the Jean-Baptiste Lain\u00e9 Site in Ontario, once considered a textbook example of a village abandoned shortly after European arrival. The site, associated with ancestral Wendat communities, yielded few European items, and so was long assumed to have been left around 1535.<\/p>\n<p>But when archaeologist Jennifer Birch of the University of Georgia partnered with radiocarbon specialist Sturt Manning of Cornell, the picture changed. Using advanced models that integrate tree-ring and carbon data, they dated the site\u2019s occupation to between 1590 and 1615\u2014more than two generations later than expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d been off by two or three whole generations,\u201d Birch recalled. \u201cI was in disbelief for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The implications ripple far beyond a single site. Sites across eastern North America\u2014long assumed to have been abandoned or fundamentally altered in the wake of European contact\u2014are now being redated. The Lamar site in Georgia\u2019s Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, traditionally dated to before 1540, may have hosted Indigenous towns a full century later. New dates suggest it was likely the Ichisi town encountered by Hernando de Soto during his expedition.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, archaeologist Michelle Pigott is re-examining villages in North Carolina\u2019s Joara region. Her preliminary data show that these communities continued to thrive long after they destroyed a Spanish fort in 1568\u2014contrary to longstanding narratives of their disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>The revised dates don\u2019t just correct timelines\u2014they challenge assumptions about power and agency. In southern Ontario, radiocarbon data from beaver-processing sites show that Indigenous groups were actively engaged in large-scale fur production before formal European trade networks were established. Rather than passive responders to colonial economies, these communities were proactively reshaping their own.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJust because European stuff exists, that doesn\u2019t mean Indigenous people want it,\u201d said archaeologist Jacob Holland-Lulewicz. \u201cThey\u2019re not passive recipients.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The breakthrough lies in how scientists now treat time. Instead of lumping broad historical periods into categories based on ceramics or colonial artifacts, radiocarbon specialists are assembling what they call \u201cmicrohistories.\u201d These are high-resolution timelines based on dendrochronology (tree rings) and advanced statistical modeling of carbon-14 data.<\/p>\n<p>The approach allows archaeologists to pinpoint events within the span of a single human life\u2014offering a more intimate view of history. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOn a generation scale, you can tell a human story,\u201d said Erik Marsh, a radiocarbon expert based in Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But this precision comes at a cost. The techniques require well-preserved wood or charcoal and are expensive. And because each site requires its own analysis, there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all framework. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEach chronology has to be scaffolded together from scratch,\u201d Birch said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many of the sites being redated today hold meaning not just for archaeologists but for the descendant communities who still live on or near these lands. But this work has not always respected Indigenous sovereignty. For much of the 20th century, archaeologists often removed human remains and cultural artifacts without consultation or consent.<\/p>\n<p>That practice is slowly changing.<\/p>\n<p>At Ocmulgee, radiocarbon research is being conducted in direct collaboration with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. \u201cThe research helps us tell a fuller story of who we were and who we still are,\u201d said Butler, who now oversees cultural preservation for the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even now, too many Indigenous nations learn about new research through academic journals rather than in partnership with researchers. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t take a tribal historic preservation officer luckily reading a paper to make that connection with the researcher,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it that this contact time period is so critical and important?\u201d she asked. \u201cAnd not necessarily what happened to our people after that?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The power of precise dating lies not just in correcting facts, but in rewriting the broader narrative. The old model\u2014a swift colonial encounter, followed by Indigenous decline and disappearance\u2014has been used to justify land dispossession and historical erasure.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new picture is coming into view. One in which Indigenous peoples stayed, adapted, persisted, and resisted. The history of North America after 1492 is not one of blank pages but of interrupted stories waiting to be re-read with better tools and deeper respect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><span>Manning, S. W., Birch, J., Conger, M. A., Dee, M. W., Sanft, S., Griggs, C., et al. (2023). High-precision radiocarbon dating of Iroquoian villages in Ontario, Canada: Implications for contact-period chronology. <\/span><em>American Antiquity<\/em><span>, 88(2), 307\u2013328. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/aaq.2022.7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span>Holland-Lulewicz, J., Thompson, V. D., &amp; Peres, T. M. (2020). Persistent places, shifting practices: New AMS dates from Ocmulgee National Monument and the archaeology of the late Mississippian Southeast. <\/span><em>American Antiquity<\/em><span>, 85(3), 474\u2013492. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/aaq.2020.31<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><span>Conger, M. A., Birch, J., &amp; Manning, S. W. (2024). A Bayesian re-evaluation of fur trade chronology in northeastern North America. <\/span><em>Radiocarbon<\/em><span>, 66(1), 97\u2013113. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/RDC.2024.5<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the presence or absence of European trade goods\u2014glass beads, iron knives, brass kettles\u2014has guided archaeologists in determining whether a North American Indigenous site was occupied before or after European contact. If European objects were found, the site was \u201chistoric.\u201d If not, it was pre-contact. But that tidy timeline is crumbling. 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