Dissertation Research: Ceramic Production in the Maya Formative: A Study of Ceramic Technology at K'axob, Belize

论文研究：玛雅形成时期的陶瓷生产：伯利兹卡克索布陶瓷技术研究

• 批准号: 9522576
• 负责人: Patricia McAnany
• 金额: $ 0.83万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-15 至 1996-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9522576&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Ceramic; Production; Maya

McAnany Under the direction of Dr. Patricia McAnany, Ms. Mary Lee Angelini will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will analyze ceramics from the archaeological site of K'axob, a prehistoric Mayan village. Her goal is to look at changes in the manufacture of ceramics over time. To determine the types of clays which the K'axob potters exploited, she will compare ceramic pastes from three hundred and thirty-eight vessels from the site to one hundred clay samples from locations in northern Belize proximate to K'axob. Comparisons will be based on ceramic petrography and INAA. Vessels will be sampled to obtain information on the full range of types present and clay locales will be tested on the basis of soil data and topographical features. Determination of changes in production technology will be investigated through analysis of formation techniques as revealed through breakage patterns, xeroradiography and petrography and determination of clay modification strategies through petrography and experimental testing. Changes in vessel size and form will also be noted. Because ceramics are so abundant in many prehistoric sites and because they preserve well in the ground, they provide a focus for much archaeological analysis. Archaeologists try to reconstruct prehistoric social, political and economic organization on the basis of detailed analysis of such remains. The site of K'axob spans the time period when complex Mayan society emerged. Most archaeologists believe that as social complexity increases and centralized authority appears, objects such as ceramics become more standardized because production is taken over by specialists who operate under a hierarchical form of control. The case of K'axob is very interesting because - based on visual inspection of ceramic form - just the opposite seems to occur. If this is the case, it challenges a basic archaeological assumption. Ms. Angelini wishes to see if this pattern holds when one examines the same corp us of data from a technological perspective and determines where raw materials were collected and how vessels were made. This project is important for several reasons. It will provide data of interest to many Middle Americanist archaeologists. It will help scientists to refine analytic tools and models and it will assist in the training of a promising young scientist.

麦卡纳尼 在Patricia McAnany博士的指导下，玛丽·李·安吉里尼女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将分析史前玛雅村庄K 'axob考古遗址的陶瓷。她的目标是研究陶瓷制造业随着时间的推移而发生的变化。为了确定K 'axob陶工开采的粘土类型，她将比较来自现场的338艘船只的陶瓷浆料和来自北方伯利兹靠近K' axob的100个粘土样品。比较将基于陶瓷岩相学和INAA。将对船只进行取样，以获得有关现有各种类型的信息，并将根据土壤数据和地形特征对粘土地点进行测试。将通过分析破碎模式、干射线照相术和岩相学揭示的地层技术，以及通过岩相学和实验测试确定粘土改性策略，来研究生产技术变化的确定。还将记录血管尺寸和形状的变化。 由于陶瓷在许多史前遗址中非常丰富，而且它们在地下保存得很好，因此它们为许多考古学分析提供了一个焦点。考古学家试图在对这些遗迹进行详细分析的基础上重建史前的社会、政治和经济组织。 K 'axob遗址跨越了复杂的玛雅社会出现的时期。大多数考古学家认为，随着社会复杂性的增加和中央集权的出现，陶瓷等物品变得更加标准化，因为生产由专家接管，他们在等级制度的控制下运作。K 'axob的情况非常有趣，因为-基于对陶瓷形式的目视检查-似乎发生了相反的情况。如果是这样的话，它挑战了一个基本的考古假设。Angelini女士希望看到，当人们从技术角度审视同一批数据并确定原材料是在哪里收集的以及容器是如何制造的时，这种模式是否成立。 这个项目之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为许多中美洲考古学家提供感兴趣的数据。它将帮助科学家完善分析工具和模型，并将协助培训有前途的年轻科学家。