Rough Cilician Region Archaeological Survey

粗略奇里西亚地区考古调查

• 批准号: 9600617
• 负责人: Richard Blanton
• 金额: $ 10.31万
• 依托单位: Purdue Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9600617&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rough; Cilician; Region; Archaeological; Survey

With National Science Foundation support Drs. Richard Blanton, Nicholas Rauh and colleagues will conduct a two year archaeological survey in the Antioch region on the Turkish coast. During the period from ca. 139-67 B.C. this area, which was peripheral to the Roman empire was controlled by Cilician pirate societies which massed large numbers of sailors and ships to raid both seaborne commerce and port cities. These exploits of these groups are well documented but relatively little is known about the internal organization of these societies. For several years Blanton and Raugh have conducted preliminary surveys in this Cilician area and they shall now expand their survey to allow full coverage of an area of approximately 800 square kilometers. Using methods developed both in Middle America and in the Old World, crews will walk carefully over the entire region and note and map archaeological occurrences. Materials from both all time periods will be collected and analyzed. On this basis it will then be possible to reconstruct demography and settlement patterns and gain insight into Cilician social and economic organization. The historical character of the Mediterranean reflects the importance of extensive long-distance sea travel that moved commodities, culture and people and that figured into military strategy and state-building. A growing number of archaeological researchers recognize the utility of social theories that address the consequences of interaction at the scales of world-system, area and region and are working to develop models of how regional interaction occurs. During Roman times the study area while environmentally marginal, and never the site of a major polity, was well situated in a way other marginal regions were not, to intermediate in major sea-borne commercial flows along the boundaries of important polities and along major Mediterranean sea routes. It thus provides an excellent setting to study what happens in semi-peripheral areas and to compliment an extensive literature which examines interactions between core and true peripheral areas. Nations and individuals today participate in, and are affected by, worldwide systems and archaeologists wish to understand how such widespread interactions develop over time. This study should provide new insight. The research is also important because it brings together New World and Old World archaeologists and introduces into a `classical` Old World setting survey and analytic techniques which have proven highly effective in the Americas. The project will further intellectual interchange which will enrich research in both regions. It will also provide data of interest to many archaeologists.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下。理查德·布兰顿、尼古拉斯·劳及其同事将在土耳其海岸的安提阿地区进行为期两年的考古调查。公元前139年至公元前67年，这片毗邻罗马帝国的地区被西利西亚海盗组织控制，他们聚集了大量的水手和船只，袭击海上商业和港口城市。这些群体的这些行为有很好的记录，但对这些社会的内部组织却知之甚少。几年来，Blanton和Raugh在西利西亚地区进行了初步调查，现在他们将扩大调查范围，使其能够全面覆盖大约800平方公里的地区。使用在中美洲和旧大陆开发的方法，工作人员将仔细地在整个地区行走，并记录和绘制考古发现。所有时期的材料都将被收集和分析。在此基础上，将有可能重建人口和定居模式，并深入了解西利西亚的社会和经济组织。地中海的历史特征反映了广泛的长途海上旅行的重要性，它运送了商品、文化和人员，并在军事战略和国家建设中发挥了重要作用。越来越多的考古研究人员认识到社会理论的效用，这些理论解决了世界体系、区域和区域尺度上相互作用的后果，并正在努力开发区域相互作用如何发生的模型。在罗马时代，研究区域虽然处于环境边缘，从来没有一个主要政体的所在地，但它的地理位置与其他边缘地区不同，在重要政体边界和主要地中海航线的主要海上商业流动中处于中间位置。因此，它为研究半外围区域发生的事情提供了一个很好的环境，并补充了大量研究核心区域和真正外围区域之间相互作用的文献。今天的国家和个人参与并受到全球系统的影响，考古学家希望了解这种广泛的互动是如何随着时间的推移而发展的。这项研究应该提供新的见解。这项研究也很重要，因为它汇集了新世界和旧世界的考古学家，并引入了一种“经典的”旧世界背景调查和分析技术，这些技术在美洲被证明是非常有效的。该项目将进一步促进知识交流，从而丰富两地的研究。它还将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的数据。