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When did the Great Peacemaker live, and when was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy he founded actually established?

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Scholarly dating methods disagree sharply: oral-tradition king-list counting, astronomical (solar eclipse) dating, and archaeological evidence for the confederacy's founding place estimates anywhere from roughly 1142 AD to 1451 AD, a span of three centuries, with no consensus resolution (Wikipedia, wikipedia-great-peacemaker).

What would resolve this A convergence of independent dating methods (archaeological, astronomical and documentary) on a single narrower window, or a documented primary source fixing the founding date.
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