Dissertation Research: Political Economy and Household Organization at Jachakala Bolivia

在马克·伯曼博士的指导下，克莉丝汀·博勒女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将在Jachakala遗址以及位于玻利维亚安第斯高地拉霍亚地区的两个附近考古遗址进行挖掘。该网站在时间上从CA延伸。公元800年至1,200年，因此涵盖了一个时期，这一时期早于，是当代和晚于附近的蒂瓦纳基帝国。通过一系列的测试坑和更广泛的横向挖掘，她将从一个家庭结构的样本中恢复信息，这将使她能够确定家庭之间的同步经济和地位变化的程度，以及这种变化如何随着时间的推移。她感兴趣的是目前的工艺专业化程度，以及这与社区内精英地位的相关程度。Beaule女士还将从与这些遗址相关的一系列广泛的灌溉渠中收集可追溯的陶瓷，以确定它们是何时建造的，以及大规模合作农业与社会和政治变化的关系，这些变化构成了她研究的核心。 虽然考古学家一直专注于安第斯山脉主要遗址的社会复杂性的发展，但对导致更小规模的社会变化的过程知之甚少，这些变化发生在农村内陆地区。因此，在作为帝国首都的蒂瓦纳库进行了广泛的挖掘。拉霍亚就在这个帝国的边界之外，博勒女士希望了解那里分层文化的兴起本质上是独立的，还是受到蒂瓦纳基的影响。该项目有第二个理论组成部分。考古学家已经认识到，家庭群体在文化变迁中发挥着重要作用，并推测了家庭经济生产的不同方面对这一过程的相对重要性。特别是，他们考虑了家庭背景下的工艺专业化和精英阶层的出现之间的潜在关系。Beaule女士收集的数据将使她能够解决这个问题。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将为社会复杂性的上升提供新的线索。它将为一个鲜为人知但具有潜在重要性的地区提供基本的考古数据，并将有助于一名有前途的年轻科学家的专业发展。

Under the direction of Dr. Marc Bermann, MS Christine Beaule will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will conduct excavations at the site of Jachakala as well as two nearby archaeological occurrences located in the La Joya region of the Bolivian Andean highlands. The sites extend in time from ca. 800 to 1,200 AD and thus cover a period which predates, is contemporary with and postdates the nearby Tiwanakian empire. Through a series of both test pits and more extensive lateral excavations she will recover information from a sample of domestic structures which will allow her to determine the degree of synchronous economic and status variability among households and how this changed over time. She is interested in both the degree of craft specialization which is present and the extent to which this correlates with elite status within a community. MS Beaule will also collect datable ceramics from an extensive series of irrigation canals associated with these sites to determine when they were constructed and how large scale cooperative agriculture related to social and political changes which form the core of her study. While archaeologists have focused on the development of social complexity at major Andean sites, relatively little is known about the processes that led to smaller scale social changes which took place in more rural hinterland areas. Thus extensive excavations have been conducted at Tiwanaku which served as empire capital. La Joya lies just beyond the boundary of this empire and MS Beaule wishes to understand whether the rise of a stratified culture there was essentially independent or was stimulated by Tiwanakian influence. The project has a second theoretical component. Archaeologists have come to realize that family groups play an important role in cultural change and have speculated about the relative significance of different aspects of family economic production on this process. In particular they have considered the potential relationships between craft specialization within a family context and emergence of an elite class. The data collected by MS Beaule will allow her to address this question. This research is important for several reasons. It will shed new light on the rise of social complexity. It will provide basic archaeological data for a poorly known and potentially important region and it will contribute to the professional development of a promising young scientist.