We employ social network analysis of collar decoration on Iroquoian vessels to conduct a multiscalar analysis of signaling practices among ancestral Huron-Wendat communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Our analysis focuses on the microscale of the West Duffins Creek community relocation sequence as well as the mesoscale, incorporating several populations to the west. The data demonstrate that network ties were stronger among populations in adjacent drainages as opposed to within drainage-specific sequences, providing evidence for west-to-east population movement, especially as conflict between Wendat and Haudenosaunee populations escalated in the sixteenth century. These results suggest that although coalescence may have initially involved the incorporation of peoples from microscale (local) networks, populations originating among wider mesoscale (subregional) networks contributed to later coalescent communities. These findings challenge previous models of village relocation and settlement aggregation that oversimplified these processes.

我们使用易洛魁人船只上的项圈装饰的社交网络分析，对安大略湖北岸的祖伦休伦特-温达特社区中的信号传导行为进行了多尺度分析。我们的分析着眼于西达芬斯克里克社​​区搬迁顺序的微观尺度以及中尺度，将西部的一些人口纳入其中。数据表明，邻近排水系统的人口之间的网络联系更强，而不是特定于排水系统的人口，这为西向东的人口流动提供了证据，尤其是在16世纪Wendat和Haudenosaunee人口之间的冲突升级时。这些结果表明，虽然合并最初可能涉及微观（本地）网络中人们的融入，来自更广泛的中尺度（次区域）网络的人口促成了后来的结盟社区。这些发现挑战了以前的村庄搬迁和定居聚集模型，这些模型过分简化了这些过程。