Archaeological Excavations at a Creek Indian Town

溪印第安小镇的考古发掘

• 批准号: 8907700
• 负责人: Gregory Waselkov
• 金额: $ 6.5万
• 依托单位: University of South Alabama
• 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: 1989-03-01 至 1991-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8907700&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archaeological; Excavations; Creek; Indian; Town

This grant provides the first of an expected two years of support. It allows Dr. Waselkov and his colleagues to excavate the early historic Creek Indian site of Fusihatchee which is located in Alabama. Preliminary work shows that this extremely rich and well preserved site contains undisturbed house floors and buried chache pits as well as human skeletal remains. Dr. Waselkov and his team will follow up their now complete preliminary excavations with large scale work. Mechanized equipment will strip overburden off horizontal areas and this will be followed by careful excavation. Analyses will focus on the faunal and floral materials recovered as well as the human burials, and material remains both locally produced and obtained through trade. The goal of this research is to understand how the Creek responded to European contact. When Columbus discovered the New World, the Creek constituted one of the largest and most highly organized tribes in the U.S. Southeast. By 1840 their independence has been lost. While the outcome of this interaction is not surprising, the process of interaction between Creek and European cultures is of great interest. After an initial depopulation and disruption caused by disease, it appears that Creek culture actually flourished as a result of contact. As they became part of a commercial network and supplied products such as deer skins to the European market, social complexity, status and internal differentiation actually increased. Dr. Waselkov's excavation will serve to confirm and provide new insight into this process. This research is important because it provides new insight into the effects of contact between more and less advanced social groups. In many less developed parts of the world this process still continues today and directly affects politics in such countries as the Philippines. It is important to understand how this works. Fusihatchee is also an endangered site. It has been subjected to looting and the and on which it lies will soon become a gravel pit. //

这笔赠款提供了预期的两年支持中的第一个。这使得Waselkov博士和他的同事们能够挖掘位于阿拉巴马州的历史悠久的早期克里克印第安人遗址Fusihatchee。初步的工作表明，这个极其丰富和保存完好的遗址包括未受干扰的房屋地板和掩埋的墓坑以及人类骨骼遗骸。瓦瑟尔科夫博士和他的团队将在他们已经完成的初步挖掘之后进行大规模的工作。机械化设备将剥离水平区域的覆盖层，然后进行仔细的挖掘。分析将集中在恢复的动物和植物材料以及人类埋葬，以及当地生产和通过贸易获得的材料。这项研究的目的是了解克里克人如何应对欧洲人的接触。当哥伦布发现新大陆时，克里克人构成了美国东南部最大、组织最严密的部落之一。到1840年，他们失去了独立。虽然这种互动的结果并不令人惊讶，但希腊文化和欧洲文化之间的互动过程却非常有趣。在最初的人口减少和疾病造成的破坏之后，看起来克里克文化实际上是由于接触而繁荣起来的。随着他们成为商业网络的一部分，并向欧洲市场供应鹿皮等产品，社会复杂性、地位和内部分化实际上增加了。瓦瑟尔科夫博士的发掘将有助于确认并为这一过程提供新的见解。这项研究很重要，因为它为研究更先进和更不先进的社会群体之间接触的影响提供了新的视角。在世界上许多欠发达地区，这一进程今天仍在继续，并直接影响到菲律宾等国家的政治。理解这是如何工作的是很重要的。fususihatchee也是濒危物种。它遭到洗劫，它所在的地方很快就会变成一个砾石坑。//