American Archaeology | Spring 2012 | Vol. 16 No. 1

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Reexamining the Seneca

Nandini Sinha

Kurt Jordan believes that non-Native archaeologists’ interpretations of Native American sites are often influenced by their assumptions that the Natives were doomed to decline. By avoiding those assumptions and uncovering new data, Jordan is contradicting previous conclusions about the Seneca. By Rachel Dickinson

Kurt Jordan (wearing blue cap) supervises excavations at White Springs. 32

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