Dissertation Research: Community Organization on the Chacoan Frontier

论文研究：查科边境的社区组织

• 批准号: 9633771
• 负责人: Barbara Mills
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 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: 1996-07-01 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9633771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Community; Organization; Chacoan

Under the direction of Dr. Barbara Mills, MS Sarah Herr will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will conduct archaeological research in the Mogollon rim area of Arizona and supplement this with the analysis of museum collections. Her focus will be on the period between the 10th through 12th centuries AD. Kivas are large, usually well constructed partially underground structures with wooden roofs and were used for religions purposes. Because they serve as a central focus for a community, by determining a kiva's size, care expended on its construction and its internal organization it is possible to gain insight into the structure of the community which built it. MS Herr, will coordinate her work with the University of Arizona field school and excavate the kiva at the Hough's Great Kiva site. She will study the ceramics and other materials collected and augment these data with analyzes of materials from other Mogollon rim sites. On this basis she will reconstruct the social organization of the region and compare it to that in neighboring areas. The Southwest has long served as a focus for archaeological attention because of the imposing ruins present and the roads which linked many of them. Clearly prehistoric people achieved a significant degree of social complexity in a harsh desert environment. Most researchers have concentrated their efforts on the largest sites and the areas which contain them and relatively work has been done in what appear to be underpopulated regions. Thus little is known about how communities in these latter areas functioned and how they were integrated (or not integrated) into more `central` areas. The Mogollon Rim has traditionally been viewed by archaeologists as a peripheral area and it forms the focus of MS Herr's study. She has proposed an original perspective - frontier theory - from which to view this area and to examine its relationships with more `central` regions. This work will provide the data to test her idea. This research is important for several regions. It will provide data of interest to many archaeologists and shed new light on the American past. It will serve to develop the application of a very powerful theoretical approach and will assist in the training of a promising young scientist.

在 Barbara Mills 博士的指导下，Sarah Herr 女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将在亚利桑那州莫戈隆边缘地区进行考古研究，并通过对博物馆藏品的分析来补充这一研究。她的重点将放在公元 10 世纪至 12 世纪期间。基瓦斯是大型、通常建造良好的部分地下结构，带有木质屋顶，用于宗教目的。因为它们是社区的中心焦点，所以通过确定 kiva 的大小、对其建造的关注度及其内部组织，可以深入了解建造它的社区的结构。赫尔女士将与亚利桑那大学野外学校协调工作，并在霍夫大基瓦遗址挖掘基瓦。她将研究收集到的陶瓷和其他材料，并通过对其他莫戈隆边缘遗址的材料分析来增强这些数据。在此基础上，她将重建该地区的社会组织，并将其与邻近地区的社会组织进行比较。 西南部长期以来一直是考古关注的焦点，因为那里存在着雄伟的废墟以及连接其中许多废墟的道路。显然，史前人类在恶劣的沙漠环境中实现了相当程度的社会复杂性。大多数研究人员都将精力集中在最大的地点及其所在区域，相对而言，工作是在似乎人口稀少的地区进行的。因此，人们对这些地区的社区如何运作以及它们如何整合（或不整合）到更“中心”的地区知之甚少。传统上，考古学家将莫戈隆边缘视为外围区域，它构成了赫尔女士研究的重点。她提出了一种独创的视角——前沿理论——来观察这一地区并审视其与更“中部”地区的关系。这项工作将为检验她的想法提供数据。 这项研究对几个地区都很重要。它将提供许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并为了解美国的过去提供新的线索。它将有助于开发非常强大的理论方法的应用，并有助于培养有前途的年轻科学家。