Dissertation: Zooarchaeological Anlaysis of Native Local Economic Systems in the Roman Imperial Frontier

论文：罗马帝国边境本土经济系统的动物考古学分析

• 批准号: 0002560
• 负责人: Glenn Storey
• 金额: $ 1.15万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0002560&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Zooarchaeological; Anlaysis; Native; Local

Under the direction of Dr. Henry Wright MS Zoe Crossland will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. Building on her past research in the area she will conduct archaeological survey and excavation in the Andrantsay region in the central highlands of Madagascar. The area provides rich agricultural land for wet rice cultivation and was the locus of an historically documented 'kingdom' observed by early European visitors at the end of the 18th century. Although they occurred relatively late in Madagascar, the processes which led to the rise of early states in other parts of the world also occurred on this island. The kingdom of Andrantsay was one of several which developed in Madagascar at approximately the same time and it was eventually incorporated, in the early 19th century into the Merina state. While written documents provide some detail about the strategies used by the Merina to subjugate this outlying region, they reflect a conqueror's perspective and require on the ground substantiation and (likely) revision. MS Crossland will examine the processes which led first to the development of the Andrantsay kingdom and then the changes which occurred during its incorporation. She will focus on shifts in the organization of settlement and transformations in mortuary architecture as a hierarchically structured and centralized polity developed. She will compare these patterns of landscape occupation and use with later changes. The research includes two components. The first involves a systematic surface survey of archaeological remains which consist mostly of ceramics. The results should provide insight into changes in population distribution and settlement pattern. Secondly MS Crossland will conduct a series of small scale excavations at selected sites. Test trenches will be placed at a minimum of 6 sites with the goal of refining ceramic chronology and providing absolute dates.Archaeologists wish to understand the processes which led over millennia to increasing social complexity and culminated in the rise of states and empires. Normally researchers focus their effort on capitals which represented the apex of the hierarchical structure. MS Crossland's study is unusual because it looks at a periphery and examines state formation within a broader regional perspective, working from the assumption that a regional scale of analysis is most suitable. In comparison to other aspects of state formation, relatively little has been written about polities at the edges of an emergent state. MS Crossland's research will provide a useful counterbalance. It will also assist in training a promising young scientist.

在亨利赖特博士的指导下，佐伊·克罗斯兰女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。基于她过去在该地区的研究，她将在马达加斯加中部高地的Andrantsay地区进行考古调查和挖掘。该地区为水稻种植提供了丰富的农业用地，并且是世纪末早期欧洲游客观察到的历史记载的“王国”的所在地。虽然马达加斯加的早期国家出现得相对较晚，但导致世界其他地区早期国家崛起的过程也发生在这个岛上。Andrantsay王国是大约在同一时期在马达加斯加发展起来的几个王国之一，它最终在世纪初被并入梅里纳国家。虽然书面文件提供了梅里纳人征服这一边远地区所使用的策略的一些细节，但它们反映了征服者的观点，需要实地证实和（可能）修订。MS Crossland将研究导致Andrantsay王国发展的过程，以及在其合并期间发生的变化。她将专注于在解决和殡葬建筑的转变，作为一个分层结构和集中的政体发展组织的变化。她将比较这些景观占用和使用模式与后来的变化。研究包括两个部分。第一个是对考古遗迹进行系统的表面调查，这些遗迹主要由陶瓷组成。研究结果将有助于深入了解人口分布和定居模式的变化。其次，MS Crossland将在选定的地点进行一系列小规模挖掘。考古学家希望了解数千年来导致社会日益复杂并最终导致国家和帝国崛起的过程。通常，研究人员将精力集中在代表等级结构顶峰的资本上。克罗斯兰女士的研究与众不同，因为它着眼于外围地区，并从更广泛的区域视角考察国家的形成，其假设是区域范围的分析最合适。与国家形成的其他方面相比，关于紧急状态边缘的政治的文章相对较少。克罗斯兰的研究将提供一种有用的平衡。它还将协助培养一名有前途的青年科学家。