Production and Distribution of Polychrome Ceramics in the Casas Grandes Region, Chihuahua, Mexico

在国家科学基金会的支持下，Daniela Triadan博士将分析一系列来自墨西哥奇瓦瓦大卡萨斯地区的晚期史前陶瓷。在欧洲接触之前的几个世纪里，一个以帕奎姆遗址为中心的复杂社会在大卡萨斯发展起来，其影响向北延伸到美国西南部。包括铜制品在内的精心制作的外来材料的存在表明了广泛的贸易网络，并表明了一个具有广泛区域外联系的商业社会。考古学家已经注意到卡萨斯·格兰斯文物与墨西哥中部的对应文物之间的相似之处，有人认为该遗址代表着一个贸易前哨，揭示了该地区直接的南部存在。也有人认为，史前文化的晚期发展是因为西南部不是土著，而是它的存在得益于外部动力。对于希望了解复杂社会如何发展和相互作用的科学家来说，这个问题意义重大。特里亚丹博士的研究重点是大赌场的组织本身，并试图重建该地区的贸易模式。她将把重点放在帕基姆，这显然是最大和最复杂的遗址，并通过与大卡萨斯地区众多较小的遗址进行比较，将其置于更广泛的区域模式中。由于经济、社会和政治系统是紧密相连的，她对陶瓷生产和分配模式的分析将提供对社会组织更广泛特征的洞察。她希望了解陶瓷的生产和分销由帕基姆精英阶层集中和控制得有多紧密。集中度越高，Casas Grand发生的可能性就越大。为了实现这一目标，Triadan博士将绘制Casas Grand地区粘土矿床的分布图，并对个别矿点进行化学表征。她还将对一大系列碎片进行成分分析，对完整的容器进行风格设计分析，并对这些容器进行成分分析。还将进行有限的岩石学表征，并将从仍然活跃在该地区的传统陶工那里获得数据。由于粘土沉积物的微量元素组成可能不同，因此应该有可能将单个物体与原材料来源联系起来，从而重建整个系统的运动。这项研究的结果将使区域考古学家以及对复杂社会发展的基础机制感兴趣的社会科学家感兴趣。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Daniela Triadan will analyze a series of late prehistoric ceramics derived from the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. In the centuries just prior to European contact, a complex society, centered on the site of Paquime developed in Casas Grandes and its influence extended northwards into the Southwestern USA. The presence of carefully crafted exotic materials including copper objects indicate widespread trade networks and suggest a mercantile society with broad extra-regional contacts. Archaeologists have noted similarities between Casas Grandes artifacts and counterparts in Central Mexico and it has been argued that the site represents a trading outpost which reveals a direct southern presence in the region. It has also been argued that late prehistoric cultural development is the Southwest is not indigenous but rather owes its presence to an outside impetus. For scientists who wish to understand how complex societies develop and interact this question is significant. Dr. Triadan's research focuses on the organization of Casas Grandes itself and attempts to reconstruct trade patterns in the region. She will focus on Paquime which is clearly the largest and most complex site and set it into a broader regional pattern through comparison with the numerous smaller sites in the Casas Grandes area. Because economic, social and political systems are closely linked, her analysis of ceramic production and distribution patterns will provide insight into broader features of social organization. She wishes to understand how tightly the production and distribution of ceramics were centralized and controlled by Paquime elites. The greater the degree of centralization the greater the probability that Casas Grandes developed and is best understood in local indigenous terms rather than as a foreign trading outpost.To accomplish this goal Dr Triadan will map clay deposit distribution in the Casas Grandes area and chemically characterize individual occurrences. She will also conduct compositional analysis of a large series of shreds, undertake a stylistic design analysis of complete vessels and subject these also to compositional analysis. Limited petrography characterization will also take place and data will be obtained from traditional potters still active in the region. Because clay deposits are likely to differ in trace element composition, it should be possible to link individual objects to raw material source and thus reconstruct movement across the system. The results of this research will be of interest to regional archaeologists as well as social scientists interested in the mechanisms which underlie the growth of complex societies.