With the knowledge and permission of the Wendat Nation we are researching connections between the Wendat, Wyandot, other Indigenous Nations and European traders using minimally destructive Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry of glass beads from Wendat village sites. The high precision data from this analysis allows for us to suggest the recipes used by glass artisans, and to reconstruct trading relationships among European and Indigenous peoples in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Team
- Alicia Hawkins, UTM Anthropology
- Heather Walder, University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse
We work with archaeometric researchers at other institutions including Laure Dussubieux, Ron Hancock, Joe Petrus.
Publications
Hawkins, Alicia, and Heather Walder. 2022. Characterizing Glass Recipes for Distinctive Polychrome Glass Bead Types in Ontario, Canada. In Glass Beads Analyzed at the Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF), edited by Heather Walder and Laure Dussubieux. pp 57-80, Studies in Archaeological Sciences. Leuven University Press, Leuven.
Walder, Heather and Stéphane Noël. 2021 Compositional Analysis of Glass Beads from Huron-Wendat Contexts at the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Mission Site, Quebec. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 45(2):135-157.
Walder, Heather, Joseph Petrus, Laure Dussubieux, Ron Hancock, and Alicia Hawkins. 2021. Comparing Chemistries: Interlaboratory Evaluation of Glass Bead Compositional Analysis in the Great Lakes. Archaeometry. 63(6): 1236-1254.
Walder, Heather, Alicia Hawkins, Brad Loewen, Laure Dussubieux, Joseph A. Petrus. 2021. “Nueva Cádiz” in the Americas – A Preliminary Compositional Comparison of Layered Beads from the 16th and 17th Centuries Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 33: 86-92.
Karklins, Karlis, Alicia Hawkins, Heather Walder, and Scott Fairgrieve. 2018. Florida Cut-Crystal Beads in Ontario. Beads: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers 30:44–51.
