The Huron-Wendat have had their ancestors’ villages and burial sites investigated archaeologically for over 170 years. Past and ongoing land disturbance and invasive archaeological excavation have erased dozens of Huron-Wendat village sites in Ontario, hindering Huron-Wendat duty to care for their ancestors. Consequently, over the last 20 years, in addition to large-scale repatriation of ancestral remains, the Huron-Wendat have requested that archaeologists make every effort to avoid any further excavation of ancestral sites. This poses a new challenge for archaeologists about how to learn about the Huron-Wendat past with minimal disturbance to ancestral sites. Honoring the cultural responsibilities of the Huron-Wendat, the authors have employed minimally invasive remote sensing methods of investigation on Ahatsistari, a forested early seventeenth-century Huron-Wendat village site in Simcoe County, Ontario. Remote sensing methods (e.g., magnetic susceptibility survey, high-resolution soil chemistry sampling, and metal detector survey) have revealed village limits and the possible location and orientation of longhouses, providing essential information in support of the Huron-Wendat imperative to find, assess, and preserve as many of their archaeological sites as possible. This is to protect the ancestors, learn from the ancestors, and preserve ancestral sites and related landscapes for future generations.

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微创遥感方法在休伦-温达考古中的重要性

Huron-Wendat 人对他们祖先的村庄和墓地进行了 170 多年的考古调查。过去和正在进行的土地动乱和侵入性考古挖掘已经抹去了安大略省数十个 Huron-Wendat 村遗址，阻碍了 Huron-Wendat 照顾祖先的责任。因此，在过去的 20 年中，除了大规模遣返祖先遗骸外，休伦-温达特人还要求考古学家尽一切努力避免进一步挖掘祖先遗址。这对考古学家提出了一个新的挑战，即如何在对祖先遗址的干扰最小的情况下了解休伦-温达特的过去。为了尊重 Huron-Wendat 的文化责任，作者采用了微创遥感方法对 Ahatsistari 进行调查，安大略省 Simcoe 县 17 世纪早期的 Huron-Wendat 村庄遗址。遥感方法（例如，磁化率调查、高分辨率土壤化学采样和金属探测器调查）揭示了村庄范围以及长屋的可能位置和方向，为支持 Huron-Wendat 发现、评估的必要性提供了重要信息，并尽可能多地保留他们的考古遗址。这是为了保护祖先，向祖先学习，为后代保留祖先的遗址和相关景观。和金属探测器调查）揭示了村庄范围以及长屋的可能位置和方向，提供了必要的信息，以支持 Huron-Wendat 发现、评估和保护尽可能多的考古遗址的必要性。这是为了保护祖先，向祖先学习，为后代保留祖先的遗址和相关景观。和金属探测器调查）揭示了村庄范围以及长屋的可能位置和方向，提供了必要的信息，以支持 Huron-Wendat 发现、评估和保护尽可能多的考古遗址的必要性。这是为了保护祖先，向祖先学习，为后代保留祖先的遗址和相关景观。