Dissertation Research: Archaeological Survey of Morgantina Sicily

在斯蒂芬·普洛格博士和马尔科姆·贝尔三世的指导下，斯蒂芬·汤普森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为期两个季度的调查工作和分析。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)由非希腊人居住。随后在公元前第一个千年的下半叶转变为一个著名的希腊城邦。虽然该遗址本身已经进行了广泛的工作，但在城墙以外还没有进行正式的考古调查。因此，对遗址的当地和区域背景及其直接的农村领土只有基本的了解。通过他的调查，汤普森将探索环境、居住地、人口统计学和土地利用的基本参数。通过他的工作，汤普森希望解决两个基本问题。首先，他希望重建这个早期地中海国家的社会和经济组织。这种类型的实体如何将农村地区与城市中心结合起来，以及政治和经济系统如何发挥作用，目前还非常不清楚。其次，他将讨论同化和变革的问题。在其历史的早期，摩甘蒂纳似乎是一个独立的、西西里本土的发展。然而，后来它似乎要么受到希腊的影响，要么完全被希腊主导。在这段时间里，中部和腹地之间的关系发生了怎样的变化？一套新的环境是如何适应传统体系的？这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将把一个主要的考古遗址置于更广泛的背景下。它将为国家一级社会的发展和变化提供新的线索，并最终将有助于培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

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.