The Cerro de Trincheras Excavation Project

特林切拉斯山 (Cerro de Trincheras) 挖掘项目

• 批准号: 9320224
• 负责人: Randall McGuire
• 金额: $ 22.91万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Binghamton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-09-01 至 1997-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9320224&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cerro; de; Trincheras; Excavation; Project

McGuire With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Randall McGuire and his colleagues will continue archaeological excavation at the site of Cerro de Trincheras. Located on a large isolated volcanic hill in northwest Sonora, Mexico, the site covers over a hectare and includes more than 870 terraces on the slopes of the hill. Some observable walls run for a hundred meters or more and approach heights of up to 3 meters. Previous work at the site indicates an occupation which extends from approximately 800-1450 AD. Excavation to date shows that terraces were used for cultivation. Domestic structures were also constructed on these surfaces. Building on a completed site map, Dr., McGuire and his team will excavate approximately 3-5% of the surface area. The excavation sample will be double-stratified by feature types and by loci defined in the mapping project. This procedure will allow for the estimation of parameters such as the number of houses per residential terrace and permit inferences about population and labor investment. The broadly based sample will provide chronometric dates for all portions of the site and allow reconstruction of synchronic activity structure across the site. The materials to be recovered - these include among other categories, ceramics, lithics, shell, bone and pollen - will be analyzed by a range of specialists. Cerro de Trincheras is a major and little known archaeological site which lies just South of the US border. The project will test a number of propositions about its prehistoric socio- political organization. At a lower level the research will address issues such as the timing of growth, the size and permanence of the human population, the nature of activities at the site and the role of the site in a larger regional and inter- regional economic system. At a higher level the work will address the nature of regional interaction in technologically simple prehistoric systems. It has been argued that major arhaeological cultu res in the US Southwest owe their existence to ties with central Mexico and that they can best be interpreted as parts of a much larger interaction network. An equally plausible interpretation sees the two as only weakly linked, essentially independent phenomena. Cerro de Trincheras because of its location between the two provides a means to examine these alternatives.

McGuire 在国家科学基金会的支持下，兰德尔·麦圭尔博士和他的同事将继续在Cerro de Trincheras遗址进行考古挖掘。该遗址位于墨西哥索诺拉西北部的一座大型孤立火山上，占地面积超过一公顷，山坡上有870多个梯田。 一些可观察到的墙壁长达100米或更长，接近3米的高度。该遗址以前的工作表明，大约从公元800年到1450年的占领。迄今为止的挖掘表明，梯田被用于耕作。在这些表面上也建造了家庭结构。根据一个完整的网站地图，博士，McGuire和他的团队将挖掘大约3-5%的表面面积。挖掘样本将按特征类型和制图项目中定义的轨迹进行双重分层。这一程序将允许估计参数，如每个住宅露台的房屋数量，并允许有关人口和劳动力投资的推断。基础广泛的样本将提供该网站的所有部分的计时日期，并允许重建整个网站的同步活动结构。 待回收的材料-其中包括陶瓷，石器，贝壳，骨头和花粉-将由一系列专家进行分析。 Cerro de Trincheras是一个主要而鲜为人知的考古遗址，位于美国边境以南。该项目将测试一些关于其史前社会政治组织的命题。在较低的层次上，研究将解决诸如增长的时间、人口的规模和持久性、遗址活动的性质以及遗址在更大的区域和区域间经济体系中的作用等问题。 在更高的层次上，这项工作将解决技术简单的史前系统中区域互动的性质。有人认为，美国西南部的主要考古学文化的存在归功于与墨西哥中部的联系，它们可以被最好地解释为一个更大的互动网络的一部分。一个同样合理的解释认为，这两个只有微弱的联系，基本上是独立的现象。Cerro de Trincheras由于其位于两者之间，因此提供了一种检查这些替代品的方法。