Dissertation Research: Archaeological Survey of Morgantina Sicily

论文研究：西西里岛摩根蒂娜考古调查

• 批准号: 9311426
• 负责人: Stephen Plog
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-07-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9311426&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Archaeological; Survey; Morgantina

Under the direction of Drs. Stephen Plog and Malcolm Bell III, Mr. Stephen Thompson will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct two seasons of survey work and analysis in a 150 square kilometer area around the site of Morgantina, a large hilltop settlement in east-central Sicily initially inhabited by non-Greek peoples during the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age (ca. 1000 - 550 B.C.) and subsequently transformed during the second half of the first millennium B.C. into a prominent Greek city state. Although extensive work has been done at the site itself, no formal archaeological investigation has been conducted beyond the city walls. Consequently, only a rudimentary knowledge exists of the site's local and regional setting and of its immediate rural territory. Through his survey, Mr. Thompson will explore basic parameters of environment, settlement, demography and land use. Through his work, Mr. Thompson wishes to address two basic issues. First he wishes to reconstruct the social and economic organization of this early Mediterranean state. It is extremely unclear how entities of this type integrate rural areas with urban centers and how political and economic systems function. Secondly, he will address questions of assimilation and change. During the early part of its history Morgantina appears to be an independent, indigenous Sicilian development. Later however it seems to either come under Greek influence or be dominated completely by Greece. How, over this interval, did relations between the center and the hinterland change? How was a new set of circumstances adapted to a traditional system? This research is important for several reasons. It will set an major archaeological site into a broader context. It will shed new light on development and change within state level societies and finally will assist in the training of a promising young scientist.

在博士的指导下。 Stephen Plog 和 Malcolm Bell III、Stephen Thompson 先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。 他将在摩根蒂纳遗址周围 150 平方公里的区域进行两季的调查工作和分析，摩根蒂纳是西西里岛中东部的一个大型山顶定居点，最初在青铜时代晚期/铁器时代早期（约公元前 1000 - 550 年）期间由非希腊人居住，随后在公元前第一个千年后半叶发生了转变。成为一个著名的希腊城邦。 尽管已在遗址本身进行了大量工作，但尚未在城墙外进行正式的考古调查。因此，对于该地点的当地和区域环境以及其直接的农村地区仅存在基本的了解。汤普森先生将通过调查探索环境、居住、人口和土地利用的基本参数。 汤普森先生希望通过他的工作解决两个基本问题。 首先，他希望重建这个早期地中海国家的社会和经济组织。目前尚不清楚此类实体如何将农村地区与城市中心整合起来以及政治和经济体系如何运作。其次，他将解决同化和变革的问题。在其历史的早期阶段，摩根蒂娜似乎是一个独立的西西里本土开发项目。然而后来它似乎要么受到希腊的影响，要么完全由希腊主导。在此期间，中央与内地的关系发生了怎样的变化？ 一系列新的情况如何适应传统系统？ 这项研究很重要，原因有几个。它将把一个主要的考古遗址置于更广阔的背景中。它将为国家级社会的发展和变革提供新的视角，并最终有助于培养有前途的年轻科学家。