Dissertation: Iconography and Group Formation During the Late Pit Structure and Classic periods of the Mimbres Society

在帕特里夏·吉尔曼博士的指导下，瓦利·鲍威尔女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她的研究重点是新墨西哥州西南部莫高隆地区的史前明布里斯人。在公元900年代，明布雷斯山谷的居民是小规模农民，他们用野生植物和猎物来补充农业。到公元1000年，人们的生计建立在全职农业的基础上，包括灌溉和淤地坝等新的农业技术。古气候数据表明，从公元1000年到公元1089年左右，无论是降水量还是降雨量的一致性都是一个异常有利的时期，在这种情况下，人口增加，山谷中所有可用的耕地都被开垦了。然而，在接下来的一个世纪里，降雨在数量和一致性上都有相当大的波动，这导致生存压力增加。考虑到这一良好的环境记录，鲍威尔女士希望研究明布雷斯不断变化的社会战略。初步工作表明，个别村庄加入了联盟，其方向和程度随着时间的推移而发生变化，以缓解环境的不可预测性。为了实现这一目标，她将研究Mimbres生产的黑白陶瓷，这些陶瓷是通过仔细控制挖掘而回收的。基于共享设计元素既是有意识的也是无意识的联盟指示器这一假设，她目前正在对网站之间的风格相似性进行分析。然而，结果并没有区分仿制的相似性和陶瓷实际运动的相似性，这种区别很重要，因为假设食品贸易起到了缓冲不同农业生产力的作用。在美国国家科学基金会的资助下，德克萨斯A&A&M大学化学表征和分析中心将对一系列150块黑白碎片进行仪器中子活化分析。根据提供的化学成分数据，将有可能确定陶器的产地。这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将提供关于简单技术水平的农学家如何适应不可预测的起伏不定的半干旱环境的洞察。它将产生许多考古学家感兴趣的数据，并帮助培养一位有前途的年轻科学家。

Under the direction of Dr. Patricia Gilman, MS Valli Powell will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. The focus of her study is the prehistoric Mimbres people of the Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico. During the 900s A.D. the inhabitants of the Mimbres valley were small scale farmers who supplemented agriculture with wild plants and hunted game. By the A.D. 1000s subsistence was based on full-time farming which included new agricultural technologies such as irrigation and check dams. Paleoclimaatic data indicate that the period from 1,000 to ca. 1089 A.D. was an unusually favorable time in both amount and consistency of precipitation and under these conditions population increased and all available arable land in the valley was cultivated. However in the following century rainfall fluctuated considerably in both amount and consistency and this led to increasing subsistence stress. Given this well established environmental record, MS Powell wishes to examine changing Mimbres social strategies. Preliminary work indicates that individual villages entered into alliances which changed in direction and extent over time in order to buffer environmental unpredictability. To accomplish this goal she will study the Mimbres produced black and white ceramics which have been recovered by carefully controlled excavation. Working on the assumption that shared design elements are both conscious and unconscious indicators of alliance, she is currently conducting an analysis of stylistic similarities among sites. The results however do not distinguish between similarities due to imitation and those which result from the actual movement of ceramics and this distinction is important because it is hypothesized that trade in food served to buffer differential agricultural productivity. With NSF funding the Texas A&M University Center for Chemical Characterization and Analysis will perform instrumental neutron activation analysis on a series of 150 black and white sherds. Based on the chemical composition data provided it will be possible to determine the source areas in which the pottery was produced.This research is important for several reasons. It will provide insight into how agriculturalists at a simple level of technology adapted to an unpredictable fluctuating semi-arid environment. It will produce data of interest to many archaeologists and assist in training a promising young scientist.