Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Intraregional Interaction in the Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150-1300: Placing Emigration in its Social Context

一个世纪的研究集中在了解公元1300年美国西南部的梅萨维德地区的完全放弃。为了重建当时的环境条件和了解梅萨维德人的去向，已经作出了巨大的努力。然而，要充分理解这种戏剧性的遗弃，需要了解该地区人口减少之前和期间村庄之间的关系。现有数据不足以评估这些相互作用。在这一关键时期（公元1150-1300年），本项目利用经济合作的证据调查村庄之间的社会互动，这些证据由村庄之间的陶器交换以及象征合作和冲突的公共和防御建筑的位置所表明。结合陶瓷交换数据和分布的公共和防御性建筑提供了一个强大的手段，了解在工作中的社会过程中，否则记录良好的abandoning.NSF的资金将允许额外的490陶瓷和粘土样品的化学成分分析从9个站点使用仪器中子活化分析。有了这些样品，就有可能利用一个区域数据库重建陶瓷生产和交换的模式，该数据库包括来自18个地点的1 041件陶瓷和60件粘土样品。这笔赠款还将资助编制一个区域数据库，记录评估村庄之间合作和冲突程度所需的社区和防御结构的地理分布情况。这两个数据库都将提供关键数据，这些数据将被未来的研究所访问，并可以被扩展，以进一步测试人类学关于社会动态的论点。这项研究由Donna Glowacki女士在基思Kintigh博士的监督下进行，将有助于了解干旱和暴力等压力对大规模移民之前和期间社会关系的影响。

A century of research has focused on understanding the complete abandonment of the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest by A.D. 1300. Enormous efforts have been devoted to reconstructing the prevailing environmental conditions and to understanding where the Mesa Verde people went. However, a full understanding of this dramatic abandonment requires knowledge of the relationships among villages prior to and during the depopulation of this region. Existing data are inadequate to assess these interactions. For this critical period (A.D. 1150-1300), this project investigates social interaction among villages using evidence for economic cooperation, indicated by the exchange of pottery among villages and the locations of communal and defensive buildings signifying cooperation and conflict. The combination of ceramic exchange data and the distribution of communal and defensive architecture provides a powerful means for understanding the social processes at work during this otherwise well-documented abandonment.NSF funding will permit the chemical composition analysis of an additional 490 ceramic and clay samples from nine sites using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis. With these samples, it will be possible to reconstruct patterns of ceramic production and exchange using a regional database comprising 1,041 ceramic and 60 clay samples from 18 sites. The grant would also fund the compilation of a regional database documenting the geographic distribution of communal and defensive architecture necessary for the assessment of the degree of cooperation and conflict among villages. Both of these databases will provide critical data that will be made accessible for and can be expanded by future research to further test anthropological arguments about social dynamics. This study, conducted by Ms. Donna Glowacki under the supervision of Dr. Keith Kintigh, will contribute to understanding the effects of stress, such as drought and violence, on social relationships prior to and during periods of large-scale emigration.