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州卡萨斯格兰德地区的晚期史前陶瓷。在欧洲人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卡萨斯格兰德发展起来，其影响力向北延伸到美国西南部。精心制作的异国情调的材料，包括铜器的存在表明广泛的贸易网络，并建议与广泛的区域外接触的商业社会。考古学家注意到卡萨斯格兰德的文物与墨西哥中部的文物有相似之处，有人认为该遗址代表了一个贸易前哨，揭示了该地区直接的南部存在。也有人认为，史前晚期文化的发展是西南部不是本土的，而是由于外部的推动力。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。Triadan博士的研究重点是Casas Grandes本身的组织，并试图重建该地区的贸易模式。她将侧重于Paquime，这显然是最大和最复杂的网站，并通过与Casas Grandes地区许多较小的网站进行比较，将其纳入更广泛的区域模式。由于经济、社会和政治制度紧密相连，她对陶瓷生产和分配模式的分析将为社会组织的更广泛特征提供洞察力。她希望了解陶瓷的生产和销售是如何紧密地集中和控制的Paquime精英。中心化程度越高，卡萨斯格兰德发展的可能性就越大，最好用当地土著术语来理解，而不是作为外国贸易前哨。为了实现这一目标，Triadan博士将绘制卡萨斯格兰德地区的粘土存款分布图，并对个别事件进行化学表征。她还将对大量碎片进行成分分析，对完整船只进行风格设计分析，并对这些碎片进行成分分析。还将进行有限的岩相学表征，并从该地区仍然活跃的传统陶艺家那里获得数据。由于粘土沉积物的微量元素组成可能不同，因此应该可以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。这项研究的结果将是感兴趣的区域考古学家以及社会科学家感兴趣的机制，这是复杂的社会的增长。

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.