Archeological Investigations of Medieval Settlements

布恩博士和他的同事们将进行考古实地考察， 南部的下阿连特茹和阿尔加维山脉地区 葡萄牙 该项目包括测绘和系统挖掘 在一个废弃的村庄，可以追溯到伊斯兰时期， 可能不久后就被遗弃了 表面特征的映射和 此外，还将在另外两个 村 这项初步的小规模工作将提供 一个更大的项目的基础。 布恩博士希望解决的根本问题是， 社区在社会上和经济上应对 经济和人口的增长和下降 征服和管理的成功政权。 在葡萄牙 包括罗马人、西哥特人、穆斯林和基督徒， 涵盖公元100年至1500年左右的时期 要解决的附带问题是种族问题， 中世纪居住在欧洲的人口的社会组织 伊比利亚半岛半岛的干旱高地，那里的灌溉系统 不可能的 已知这些种群 来自水源较好地区的群体。 这项研究很重要，因为它将提供深入了解 关系是如何随着时间的推移而发展和变化的， 城乡发展 中世纪的情况 葡萄牙今天仍然适用于第三世界的许多地区， 农村居民之间存在的复杂关系 和统治城市的精英（他们往往在文化上与众不同） 使区域政治和发展努力复杂化。 因此 工作可能具有实际意义。 考古学有着独特的 在这些研究中做出贡献，因为它可以检查这种 长期的关系。

Dr. Boone and colleagues will conduct archaeological fieldwork in the Lower Alentejo and Serra do Algarve region of Southern Portugal. The project includes mapping and systematic excavation in a deserted village which dates to the Islamic period and was probably abandoned soon after. Mapping of surface features and limited soundings will also be carried out in two additional villages. This preliminary small scale work will provide the basis for a larger project. The fundamental question Dr. Boone wishes to address is how rural communities respond socially and economically to cycles of economic and demographic growth and decline associated with succeeding regimes of conquest and administration. In Portugal these include the Romans, Visigoths, Muslims and Christians and cover the period from approximately 100 to 1500 A.D. An ancillary issue to be addressed is the problem of ethnicity and the social organization of medieval populations inhabiting the dry, upland areas of the Iberian Peninsula where irrigation was impossible. These populations are known to have been distinct from groups in better watered regions. This research is important because it will provide insight into how relationships develop and are changed over time between urban and rural areas. The conditions which held in medieval Portugal still apply today to many areas in the Third World and the complex relationships which exist between rural inhabitants and the ruling urban elite (who are often culturally distinct) complicate regional politics and development efforts. Thus the work may have practical relevance. Archaeology has a unique contribution to make in such studies because it can examine such relations over long spans of time.