Dissertation Research: Archaeological Investigation of Exchange in the Caroline Islands

小行星9412851 在William Ayres博士的指导下，Christopohe Descantes先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将在位于太平洋雅普岛的Gachpar村和位于雅普海岸外的珊瑚环礁Ulithi进行人种学、人种历史学和考古学研究。 人种学数据表明，在雅普地区，如同在太平洋的许多地方一样，存在着广泛的交换网络，在资源贫乏的岛屿之间分配货物，这种交换网络在岛屿政体的政治组织中发挥着核心作用。在雅普，情况似乎相当复杂，因为该岛的某些地区与个别外围环礁保持着专属联系。在更精细的层面上，这些联系似乎是由个别家庭和世系所具体规定的。Descantes先生将对雅普和乌利西进行人种学和考古学实地考察。他将在雅普村进行采访和挖掘，根据传统，雅浦村与乌里希村有贸易联系。他也将在乌利西做类似的工作。在此基础上，他将确定目前存在哪些贸易关系，并首先通过历史记录，然后通过挖掘的考古材料追溯到史前。 考古数据表明，数千年前，地理上孤立的太平洋小岛屿上有人居住。 虽然这种扩张所涉及的最初的航海壮举早已得到承认，但较少关注允许持续占领岛屿的社会、经济和政治制度，这些岛屿往往缺乏可加工的石头、粘土和其他必需品。本研究就是围绕这一主题展开的。它之所以重要，是因为它深刻的时间顺序视角将允许人们研究该系统如何发展和维持了数千年。M.德尚的收藏品会引起许多人类学家的兴趣。该项目还将帮助培养一名有前途的年轻科学家。

9412851 Ayres Under the direction of Dr. William Ayres, Mr Christopohe Descantes will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will conduct ethnographic, ethnohistorical and archaeological research in the village of Gachpar, located on the Pacific island of Yap, and at Ulithi, a coral atoll located off Yap's coast. Ethnographic data indicates that in the Yap region, as in many parts of the Pacific, extensive exchange networks existed to distribute goods among resource poor islands and this exchange network played a central role in the political organization of island polities. In Yap the situation appears quite complex since specific areas of the island maintained exclusive links with individual outlying atolls. At an even finer level, these linkages appeared specified by individual family and lineage. Mr. Descantes will carry out ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork on both Yap and Ulithi. He will conduct interview and excavation in the Yap village which, by tradition is linked through trade to Ulithi. He will do similar work at Ulithi as well. On this basis, he will determine what trading ties exist at the present time and trace them backwards first through the historical record and then, by means of excavated archaeological material into the prehistoric past. Archaeological data indicates that small and geographically isolated Pacific islands were inhabited thousands of years ago. While the original feats of navigation involved in this expansion have long been recognized, less attention has been focussed on the social, economic and political systems which permitted sustained occupation of islands which were often lacking in workable stone, clay and other essential goods. This research is focussed on this topic. It is important because its deep chronological perspective will permit one to examine how the system developed and was maintained over millennia. The data which M. Deschantes collects will be of interest to many anthropologists. The proj ect will also assist in the training of a promising young scientist.