Dissertation Research: Potters and Politics: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Political Competition and Craft Specialization in Paradijon, Southern Luzon, Philippines

在William Longacre博士的指导下，Mark Neupert先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他将获得在菲律宾帕拉迪洪村庄进行民族考古研究期间收集的陶瓷材料的中子活化和岩相薄片分析。他还将进行网络分析，以确定居住在村里的工匠之间的社会联系。Neupert先生的研究目标是深入了解构成社会的社会因素与个人生产的人工制品之间的关系。在他现在完成的实地考察过程中，Neupert先生研究了在当地市场上生产销售陶瓷的陶工。这项研究的一部分涉及确定个人获得粘土的来源以及他们混合和制备粘土的技术，他希望确定存在的行为差异的范围以及这与其他社会因素（如政治，经济和亲属关系）的关系。为了实现这一点，他收集了社会数据和陶器生产的范围内的个人。在他的研究在帕拉迪洪，移位分数争端导致政治重组，这有直接影响的陶工如何组织和来源，他们获得他们的原材料。Neupert先生现在将从社会和物质两个层面对这些数据进行系统分析。 考古学家希望重建他们所研究的史前社会的行为，并且由于通常通过挖掘恢复的物质遗迹有限，这一目标可能非常难以实现。由于其耐用的结构，陶器经常被大量回收，研究人员试图开发分析技术，通过研究它来产生最大量的信息。为了了解潜在的广泛行为是如何间接反映在这些材料遗骸中的，有必要检查受控的现代情况，其中行为和材料副产品都可以直接观察到。Neupert先生正是从这样的背景下获得相关信息的。 这项研究很重要，因为它将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的案例研究。它将有助于发展具有潜在广泛考古价值的分析技术，并协助培训有前途的年轻科学家。

Under the direction of Dr. William Longacre, Mr. Mark Neupert will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. He will obtain neutron activation and petrographic thin section analyses of ceramic materials collected during an ethnoarchaeological study in Paradijon a village in the Philippines. He will also conduct a network analysis to determine social ties among artisans who live in the village. The goal of Mr. Neupert's research is to gain insight into the relationship between social factors which structure a society and the artifacts which individuals produce. During the course of his now completed fieldwork, Mr. Neupert studied potters who produced ceramics for sale in local markets. Part of this research involved determining the sources from which individuals obtained clay and the techniques they employed to mix and prepare it. He wished to determine the range of behavioral variation which existed and how this related to other social factors such as political, economic and kinship ties. To accomplish this he collected both social data and pottery produced by a range of individuals .During his study in Paradijon, shifts fractional disputes resulted in political realignments and this had a direct effect on how potters were organized and the sources from which they obtained their raw materials. Mr. Neupert will now conduct systematic analyses of these data at both a social and material level. Archaeologists wish to reconstruct the behavior of the prehistoric societies they study and given the limited material remains which are usually recovered through excavation, this goal can be extremely difficult to achieve. Because of its durable structure, pottery is often recovered in large amounts and researchers attempt to develop analytic techniques which will yield the maximum amount of information through study of it. To understand how a potentially wide range of behaviors are indirectly reflected in such material remains it is necessary to examine controlled present day situations where both behavior and material byproduct can be directly observed. Mr. Neupert has obtained relevant information from just such a context. This research is important because it will provide a case study of interest to many archaeologists. It will help to develop analytic techniques of potentially broad archaeological value and assist in training a promising young scientist.