Dissertation Research: Community Organization on the Chacoan Frontier

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。她将在亚利桑那州的莫高伦边缘地区进行考古研究，并对博物馆藏品进行分析。她的重点将是公元10世纪到12世纪之间的时期。基瓦斯是大型的，通常建造得很好，部分是地下结构，有木制屋顶，用于宗教目的。因为它们是一个社区的中心焦点，通过确定kiva的大小，对其建造和内部组织的关注，可以深入了解建造它的社区的结构。Herr女士将与亚利桑那大学野外学校协调工作，并在霍夫的大基瓦遗址挖掘基瓦。她将研究收集到的陶瓷和其他材料，并通过分析其他莫高伦边缘遗址的材料来补充这些数据。在此基础上，她将重构该地区的社会组织，并与周边地区进行比较。西南地区长期以来一直是考古学关注的焦点，因为这里有壮观的遗址和连接许多遗址的道路。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。大多数研究人员都把精力集中在最大的遗址和包含这些遗址的地区，而在人口稀少的地区也做了相对的工作。因此，人们对这些地区的社区如何运作以及它们如何被整合（或不被整合）到更“中心”的地区知之甚少。传统上，考古学家认为莫高伦边缘地区是一个边缘地区，它形成了赫尔女士研究的重点。她提出了一种新颖的观点——前沿理论——从这个角度来看待这个地区，并研究它与更多“中心”地区的关系。这项工作将为验证她的想法提供数据。这项研究对几个地区都很重要。它将为许多考古学家提供感兴趣的数据，并为美国的过去提供新的线索。它将有助于发展一种非常有力的理论方法的应用，并将有助于培养有前途的年轻科学家。

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.