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human bone. Drawing on the Mollo Kontu data, we argue that our most important insightsdo not necessarily occur when the findings of specialists from different fields lead tosimilar conclusions to a common research question, but rather when their resultscontradict each other. Such experiences challenge us to re-evaluate our workinghypotheses and to question the accepted paradigms and agendas particular to eachinvestigator’s sub-discipline. As such, meaningful interdisciplinary and collaborativeresearch entails not just the division of labor between investigators, but also tacking backand forth during all stages of the research process.Cowie, Ellen R. (Northeast Archaeology Research Center) St. Lawrence IroquoianPottery in Maine: A Review and Update of the Evidence (5) Twenty years ago, actual St.Lawrence Iroquoian ceramics were recovered from four site locations at Norridgewock inthe central Kennebec River Valley in Maine. This concentrated sample of over 17individual vessels added to a few other isolated St. Lawrence Iroquoian ceramic finds in acoastal setting, as well as inland settings in the upper Penobscot and St. John Riverdrainages of Maine. The ceramics from Norridgewock were variably dated at the SandyRiver site at AD 1450-1650 and all ceramics but those from one site were found inassociation with other non-Iroquoian, proto-Abenaki vessels. This paper reviews pastfindings and interpretations and presents the results of new radiocarbon analyses of theNorridgewock samples and the results of a recent search for other St. Lawrence Iroquoianceramics among known Late Woodland sites in the Kennebec River valley in Maine.Craig, David and Peter Whitridge (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Not sobig: Inuit dwellings and the “small house” movement (7) Precontact Inuit archaeologyavails of a rich architectural record. House outlines and some construction details aretypically visible on the ground surface, allowing preliminary analysis of the size andfabrication of even unexcavated dwellings. A striking feature of this record is thediminutive scale of most houses, in stark contrast with the vast scale of the routinelyutilized landscape, made possible in part by an extraordinarily elaborate travel technology.Indeed, compact and modular house design (e.g., the snow house) is an intimate correlateof Inuit mobility. An interesting analogue for these miniature dwellings is provided by therecent “small house” movement, which champions compact living spaces such as microloftsand tiny houses. Rationales for small houses emphasizing reduced housing costs andenergy expenditure, and hence greater environmental sustainability, are clearly germaneto the Inuit case, as is the hyper-mobile lifestyle to which small houses seem like a logicalsolution.Crema, Enrico (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Exogenic andendogenic forces in group fission-fusion dynamics: an abstract model (26) Humanresource exploitation are generally characterised by a non-linear relation between groupsize and individual fitness. Increasing group size provides benefits (e.g. cooperating, risksharing,mutual defence etc.) up to a certain point, when negative frequency dependence(e.g. higher resource exploitation, interference) starts to predominate, and being part of agroup is no longer a viable strategy. Such relation has evolutionary implications in humanmeta-populations where individuals can improve their fitness by fissioning to smallergroups or joining larger communities. This paper will seek to explore the consequences ofsuch decision making process by means of an abstract agent-based simulation. I will