Five sites in present-day New York have played important roles in archaeological narratives surrounding the development of settled village life in northeastern North America. Excavated in the mid-twentieth century, the Roundtop, Maxon-Derby, Sackett or Canandaigua, Bates, and Kelso sites include evidence related to the transition from semisedentary settlement-subsistence patterns during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries AD to those associated with fifteenth century and later settled Iroquoian villagers. Radiocarbon dates for each site were obtained early in the development of the method and again following the transition to AMS dating. Here, we present new or recently-published dates for these sites, combined with reliable existing dates in Bayesian models, including in some cases short tree-ring sequenced wiggle-matches on wood charcoal. Our results clarify the timing of each site’s occupation(s), revealing both continuity and discontinuity in the development of longhouse dwellings, sedentism, and the repeated re-use of some site locations over hundreds of years.

当今纽约的五个遗址在围绕北美东北部定居村庄生活发展的考古叙述中发挥了重要作用。朗托普 (Roundtop)、马克森-德比 (Maxon-Derby)、萨克特 (Sackett) 或卡南代瓜 (Canandaigua)、贝茨 (Bates) 和凯尔索 (Kelso) 遗址于 20 世纪中叶出土，其中包含有关从公元 12 世纪到 14 世纪期间的半定居居住模式向 15 世纪和 15 世纪相关的转变的证据。后来易洛魁村民定居。每个地点的放射性碳测年都是在该方法开发的早期获得的，并在过渡到 AMS 测年之后再次获得。在这里，我们展示了这些地点的新的或最近发布的日期，并结合贝叶斯模型中可靠的现有日期，包括在某些情况下木炭上的短树木年轮序列摆动匹配。我们的研究结果阐明了每个遗址被占用的时间，揭示了长屋住宅、定居以及数百年来某些遗址位置的重复再利用的连续性和不连续性。