Abstract

Understanding the Iroquoian presence in the St. Lawrence Valley is challenged by growing regionalism but we can still study this vast Iroquoian world as an interaction sphere with a sornewhat long story of reproduction success. Increase cultural variability at the regional level has led most archaeologists to divide the Valley into several homogeneous cultural areas. The current state of pottery seriation (the emergence of the diagnostic St. Lawrence Iroquoian pottery) and settlement patterns as well as other general aspects of these cultural groupe will be addressed within geographic divisions.