DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IMPROVEMENT GRANT: IDENTITY, RITUAL, AND EXCHANGE ALONG THE LOWER RIO PUERCO DRAINAGE NEW MEXICO

博士论文改进补助金：新墨西哥州下里约普尔科流域沿线的身份、仪式和交流

• 批准号: 0109885
• 负责人: Keith Kintigh
• 金额: $ 0.46万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2002-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0109885&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; IMPROVEMENT; GRANT; IDENTITY

Under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Ms Suzanne Eckert will collect data for her doctoral dissertation. She will analyze large series of ceramics recovered from two archaeological sites, Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound located in the lower Rio Puerco drainage of New Mexico. These large multi-room sites are typical of the late prehistoric period of the region and date to approximately 1150 to 1400 AD. Within the Southwest the centuries immediately before Spanish contact are characterized by population movements from multiple widely dispersed small sites into a more limited number of larger entities. This of necessity required the development of social mechanisms which integrated previously distinct social groups. In addition to such local aggregation, long distance migration which characterized early historic Southwest groups also occurred in prehistoric times and evidence indicates that people from well outside the local region also lived at both the Hummingbird Pueblo and Pottery Mound sites. Ms Eckert wishes to understand how integrating mechanisms developed, the extent to which distinctive social identities were retained and the degree and nature of ties beyond the local Rio Puerco region. She will also examine how these factors changed over timeTo address these questions, she will focus on the large well controlled ceramic material excavated at both sites. Because they reflect different aspects of social interaction she will: 1. analyze pottery designs and overt stylistic attributes; 2. examine the technology, such as paste manipulation, by which pottery is produced; 3. use petrographic analysis to identify and determine source location of raw materials to determine whether specific pottery types were imported or locally made; 4. reconstruct vessel size to provide insight into function. Ms Eckert has developed a model which, through the interplay of these variables, will allow her to examine such issues as retained ethnicity and trade and the potential importance of ritual feasting.This research is important for several reasons. It will increase understanding of the complex interactions which characterize social group formation and how these develop over time. It will provide important data of interest to many archaeologists about a relatively poorly known region of the Southwest and will also contribute to training a promising young scientist.

在基思金蒂博士的指导下，苏珊娜·埃克特女士将为她的博士论文收集数据。她将分析从两个考古遗址，蜂鸟普韦布洛和陶器丘位于较低的里约普尔科排水新墨西哥州恢复大系列的陶瓷。这些大型多房间遗址是该地区史前晚期的典型代表，可追溯到公元1150年至1400年。在西南地区，在与西班牙接触之前的几个世纪，人口从多个分散的小地点迁移到数量有限的较大实体。这就必然要求发展社会机制，使以前不同的社会群体融合在一起。除了这样的地方聚集，长距离迁移的特点早期历史西南群体也发生在史前时代，证据表明，人们从当地以外的地区也生活在蜂鸟普韦布洛和陶器丘网站。Eckert女士希望了解融合机制是如何发展的，独特的社会特征在多大程度上得到保留，以及里约普尔科地区以外的联系的程度和性质。她还将研究这些因素如何随着时间的推移而变化。为了解决这些问题，她将重点关注在这两个遗址出土的大型控制良好的陶瓷材料。因为它们反映了社会交往的不同方面，她将：1。分析陶器设计和明显的风格属性; 2.研究陶器的制作工艺，如制泥工艺; 3.利用岩相分析，确定原料的来源地，以确定特定的陶器类型是进口的还是本地制造的;重建血管大小，以了解功能。埃克特女士开发了一个模型，通过这些变量的相互作用，将使她能够研究诸如保留的种族和贸易以及仪式盛宴的潜在重要性等问题。它将增加对社会群体形成特征的复杂互动以及这些互动如何随着时间的推移而发展的理解。它将为许多考古学家提供关于西南部一个相对鲜为人知的地区的重要数据，并将有助于培养一名有前途的年轻科学家。