Dissertation Research: Prehispanic Maya Community Organization and Settlement Hierarchy in the Chichen Itza Area

论文研究：奇琴伊察地区前西班牙玛雅社区组织和聚落等级制度

• 批准号: 8918793
• 负责人: Alan Kolata
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-01-01 至 1991-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8918793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Prehispanic; Maya; Community

Under the direction of Dr. Alan Kolata, Ms. Patricia Anderson will conduct archaeological research to collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Ms. Anderson will carry out both survey and excavation at the Mayan site of Yula which dates from the classic/post-classic period and is located near the major ceremonial center of Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Because of extensive work which has been done at Chichen Itza, it should be possible to place Yula into a broader regional context. With a team of assistants, Ms. Anderson will clear site overgrowth and then construct a site map. Site boundaries will be determined and microenvironmental and hydrological resources noted. Buildings and other cultural remains will be plotted and non-ceramic objects collected. Test excavations will then be placed in rich midden areas to retrieve pottery and other material remains. On this basis it should be possible to determine the size of the community and the range of activities conducted there. Although much archaeological research has been conducted in the Yucatan peninsula, the focus has been almost exclusively on "elite sites" with impressive temples and public buildings. What makes this project important is its examination of a small non- elite settlement. This should aid in producing a more balanced picture of Mayan society. It should also increase archaeological understanding of how communities of different sizes interacted and the over-arching political and economic system which linked them. This research is important for several reasons. First, it will assist in the training of an extremely promising young scientist. Secondly, it will provide new insight into how complex societies develop. The information on economic interactions between larger and smaller agrarian based entities and how these change over time may help us to understand processes of development in the Third World.

在Alan Kolata博士的指导下，Patricia安德森女士 将进行考古研究，为她收集资料 博士论文 安德森女士将进行这两项调查 在尤拉玛雅遗址的发掘， 古典/后古典时期，位于附近的主要 尤卡坦半岛奇琴伊察的仪式中心， 墨西哥 由于在奇琴所做的大量工作， Itza，它应该是可能的地方尤拉到一个更广泛的区域 上下文 安德森女士将带着一队助手清理现场 过度生长，然后构建一个网站地图。 场地边界将 微环境和水文资源 知道了 建筑物和其他文化遗迹将被标绘， 收集的非陶瓷物品。 测试挖掘将在 放置在丰富的midden地区，以恢复陶器和其他 材料仍然。 在此基础上，应该可以 确定社区的规模和活动范围 在那里进行。 尽管在考古学上进行了大量的研究， 尤卡坦半岛，焦点几乎完全集中在 “精英网站”与令人印象深刻的寺庙和公共建筑。 什么 使这个项目重要的是它的检查一个小的非- 精英定居点 这应该有助于产生一个更平衡的 玛雅社会的图片 它还应该增加考古 了解不同规模的社区如何互动 以及与之相联系的过于复杂的政治和经济制度， 他们 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。 一是 协助培养一位极有前途的年轻科学家。 其次，它将提供新的见解，复杂的社会如何 开发. 关于大型企业之间经济互动的信息 和较小的农业为基础的实体，以及如何改变这些 时间可以帮助我们理解发展的过程， 第三世界。