Dissertation Research: Settlement Organization and Sociopolitical Evolution in China

沃森 在Patty Jo沃森博士的指导下，Jimmy Railey先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。雷利先生曾与中国考古学家一起调查和挖掘位于中国黄河中游的垣曲盆地南部的考古遗址。该团队发现了一系列的定居点，包括新石器时代和青铜时代早期，从而记录了该地区复杂分层社会的出现。在国家科学基金会的支持下，莱利先生将继续这项工作。他将参加正在进行的挖掘在三个地点在盆地，并进行调查的周围地区。对他收集的数据进行的空间分析将提供关于区域人口和定居模式长期趋势的信息。它将记录特定社区的规模和内部组织随时间的变化，并阐明陶瓷生产和销售的组织。他将对发现的陶瓷材料进行详细分析，并检查从遗址中发现的花卉和动物遗骸。 考古学家希望了解复杂的社会是如何产生的，因为这些社会构成了我们今天生活的基本社会结构。为了深入了解所涉及的基本过程，有必要利用比较方法，并审查发生这种转变的一些个别情况。 只有这样，才能把一般的趋势同历史的个别情况分开。在这方面，中国的黄河流域是极其重要的，因为这是世界文明的独立摇篮之一。莱利先生在跨越这种过渡的网站上工作。这项研究还将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的数据，促进美国和中华人民共和国之间的科学合作，并有助于培养一名有前途的年轻科学家。

Watson Under the direction of Dr. Patty Jo Watson, Mr. Jimmy Railey will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. Mr. Railey has worked with Chinese archaeologists in the survey and excavation of archaeological sites in the southern Yuanqu basin, located in the middle Yellow River in China. The team has found a series of settlements which encompass both the Neolithic and early Bronze Age periods and thus document the emergence of complex stratified societies in this region. With National Science Foundation support, Mr. Railey will continue this work. He will participate in on-going excavations at three sites in the Basin and also conduct a survey of the surrounding area. Spatial analyses of the data he collects will provide information on the long-term trends in regional demography and settlement patterns. It will document changes in the size and internal organization of specific communities over time and shed light on the organization of production and distribution of ceramics. He will conduct a detailed analysis of ceramic materials recovered and also examine floral and faunal remains recovered from the sites. Archaeologists wish to understand how complex societies arose since these form the basic social structure within which we live today. To gain insight into the underlying processes involved, it is necessary to utilize a comparative method and examine a number of individual instances in which this transformation took place. Only in this way can general trends be separated from historical particulars. In this context the Yellow River region of China is extremely important because this was one of the independent cradles of world civilization. Mr. Railey works on sites which span this transition. The research will also provide data of interest to many archaeologists, further scientific cooperation between the United States and the Peoples Republic of China and help to train a promising young scientist.