Archaeological Investigations at Alcaria Longa

阿尔卡里亚隆加考古调查

• 批准号: 8907585
• 负责人: James Boone
• 金额: $ 7.77万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-08-01 至 1991-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8907585&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archaeological; Investigations; Alcaria; Longa

Following a preliminary season of NSF sponsored investigation, Dr. Boone and his colleagues will conduct an intensive archaeological investigation at the site of Alcaria Longa, an abandoned medieval village site in the Lower Alentejo region of southern Portugal. In addition to excavation, the team will also conduct limited survey to find other sites and examine comparative materials from other locations. 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 developmental 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.

在NSF赞助的初步调查之后， 布恩博士和他的同事将进行一次密集的 在Alcaria Longa遗址的考古调查， 下阿连特茹地区的一个废弃的中世纪村庄遗址， 葡萄牙南部。 除了挖掘， 进行有限的调查，以找到其他网站，并检查 其他地方的比较材料。 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， 涵盖了大约公元100年至1500年的时期。 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 伊比利亚半岛的干旱高地地区，灌溉是 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 城市与城市之间的关系是如何发展和变化的 农村发展 中世纪葡萄牙的情况 今天仍然适用于第三世界的许多地区， 农村居民与农民之间存在着复杂的关系， 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，在本发明中， 这项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。