Dissertation Research: Systematic Cultural Change in the U. S. Prehistoric Southwest

在玛格丽特纳尔逊博士的指导下，迈克尔·迪尔先生将 为他的博士论文收集资料。他将学习材料 在美国一些收藏考古藏品的博物馆， 来自新墨西哥州的莫戈隆地区这项工作的目标是 研究随着时间的推移社会群体中出现的不平等现象。 迪尔博士将重点放在早期和晚期皮特乌斯时期，因为 在这段时间里，生活和定居发生了明显变化， 在考古记录中有记载。皮特乌斯 人们开始是高度机动的猎人和收藏家， 时间似乎在更大的群体中安定下来。位点 长期占领和依赖农业 似乎有所增加。在世界上许多地方， 变化与社会不平等的出现有关 在家庭住户中。目前还不清楚这是否是一个 Pithouse人民之间发生的现象和Diehl先生将 研究这个问题。更重要的是，他将努力辨别 解释发生的变化的潜在机制 并试图确定精确的因果关系。到 完成这一点，他将检查挖掘文件，植物 遗迹，陶瓷和“奢侈品”项目从一系列的网站， 在这段时间内。通过这种方式，他可以重建 生存、定居和社会分化。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。社会不平等 这既是生活的事实，也是许多人面临的问题的原因。 今天的社会。人类学家希望了解 这种现象最初出现，这项研究将解决 问题.它还将协助培训有前途的年轻人 科学家

Under the direction of Dr. Margaret Nelson, Mr Michael Diehl will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will study materials at a number of U.S. museums which house archaeological collections from the Mogollon region of New Mexico. The goal of the work is to examine the emergence of inequality within social groups over time. Dr. Diehl will focus on the Early and Late Pithouse periods because over this time period clear changes in subsistence and settlement strategy are documented in the archaeological record. Pithouse peoples started as highly moble hunters and collectors and over time appear to have settled in larger groupings. Sites were occupied for longer periods of time and dependence on agriculture appears to have increased. In many parts of the world similar changes are correlated with the emergence of social inequality among domestic household units. It is unclear whether a this phenomenon occurred among Pithouse peoples and Mr. Diehl will examine this question. More importantly, he will try to discern the underlying mechanisms which underlay the changes which took place and try to determine precise cause and effect relationships. To accomplish this, he will examine excavation documents, botanical remains, ceramics and "luxury" items from a series of sites which span this time period. In this way he can reconstruct changes in subsistence, settlement and social differentiation. This research is important for several reasons. Social inequality is both a fact of life and a cause of problems which face many societies today. Anthropologists wish to understand how this phenomenon originally arose and this research will address the issue. It will also assist in the training of a promising young scientist.