Mantle Site

Mantle Site
	View of the site looking west from Byers Pond Way.
	Shown within Regional Municipality of York Mantle Site (Southern Ontario)
Location	Whitchurch–Stouffville, Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada
Region	Regional Municipality of York, Ontario
Coordinates	43°57′49″N 79°14′13″W / 43.96361°N 79.23694°W
History
Periods	Late Precontact Period, ca. 1500–1530
Cultures	Huron (Wendat)
Site notes
Excavation dates	2003-2005

The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region.^[1] The site's southeastern access point is at the intersection of Mantle Avenue and Byers Pond Way.

Formerly thought to have been active 1500-1530, the prime period of the site has been shifted to 1587-1623, based on radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis. This has influenced new interpretations of migrations and population movement in the region among the Iroquoian peoples prior to the coalescence of the Wyandot.

^ Toronto Museum Project, Dunsmere Pipe Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. An exhaustive archaeological study of the Mantle Site is provided by Jennifer Birch, "Coalescent Communities in Iroquoian Ontario," unpublished PhD Thesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2010.

[1] Toronto Museum Project, Dunsmere Pipe Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. An exhaustive archaeological study of the Mantle Site is provided by Jennifer Birch, "Coalescent Communities in Iroquoian Ontario," unpublished PhD Thesis, McMaster University, Hamilton, 2010.

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