Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Tiwanaku Residential Mobility and Archaeological Chemistry: Strontium and Lead Isotope Analyses in the South Central Andes

在道格拉斯普莱斯博士的指导下，凯利·克努森将为她在麦迪逊的威斯康星州大学的博士论文收集数据。她将使用考古化学来研究公元500-1000年存在于安第斯山脉中南部的前哥伦比亚Tiwanaku文化。位于玻利维亚的蒂瓦纳库是一个巨大而令人印象深刻的遗址，是一个宗教、经济和政治中心，对现在的秘鲁南部、智利北方和玻利维亚西部产生了影响。然而，这种影响的性质尚不清楚，也很有争议。更具体地说，首都蒂瓦纳库和与蒂瓦纳库有关的较小遗址之间的关系一直备受争议。一些学者认为，这些位于秘鲁南部和智利北方的遗址是蒂瓦纳库帝国为获取有价值的农产品而建立的殖民地，另一些学者则坚持认为，这些遗址居住的是与首都有宗教或经济联系的当地人，而不是政治联系。虽然考古学家试图通过各种手段解决这一争论，但只有考古化学才能确定拟议中的Tiwanaku殖民地中来自首都Tiwanaku的殖民者。通过一项新技术，利用考古人类牙齿和骨骼中的锶和铅同位素比率，努森将确定埋葬在提瓦纳库殖民地的人在生命的前5年生活在哪里。通过确定拟议的蒂瓦纳库殖民地的居民流动模式及其与蒂瓦纳库首都的生物学关系，努森将检验有关蒂瓦纳库政体性质的各种假设。这项研究在各个层面上都很重要。由于这种强大的方法仍然是相对较新的，本论文的研究将有助于完善锶和铅同位素分析在考古学中的使用，并将有助于说服其效用的考古界。此外，这项研究将阐明蒂瓦纳库的首都和可能的蒂瓦纳库遗址之间的关系，并将帮助安第斯学者解决关于蒂瓦纳库政体性质的争论。最后，由于大多数信息帝国的战略来自地区和时间段的书面记录存在，蒂瓦纳库心脏腹地的互动和帝国战略的研究将扩大目前的知识在史前国家的发展和维护中的作用的住宅流动性。这项工作还将有助于培养一名有前途的年轻科学家。

Under the direction of Dr. Douglas Price, Kelly Knudson will collect data for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She will use archaeological chemistry to investigate the Precolumbian Tiwanaku culture, which existed from AD 500-1000 in the South Central Andes. The large and impressive site of Tiwanaku, located in Bolivia, was a religious, economic and political center that exerted influence over what is now southern Peru, northern Chile and western Bolivia. However, the nature of that influence is unclear and very controversial. More specifically, the relationship between the capital city of Tiwanaku and smaller sites associated with Tiwanaku has been heavily debated. While some scholars argue that these sites in southern Peru and northern Chile are colonies established by the Tiwanaku empire to gain access to valuable agricultural goods, others insist that these sites were populated by local people with religious or economic ties, but not political, ties to the capital. While archaeologists have tried to address this debate through various means, only archaeological chemistry can definitively identify colonists from the capital city of Tiwanaku in the proposed Tiwanaku colonies. Through a new technique that utilizes the strontium and lead isotope ratios in archaeological human teeth and bone, Knudson will determine where people buried at the proposed Tiwanaku colonies lived for the first 5 years of their lives. By determining the patterns of residential mobility at the proposed Tiwanaku colonies and their biological relationship to the capital city of Tiwanaku, Knudson will test the various hypotheses concerning the nature of the Tiwanaku polity. This research is important on a variety of levels. Since this powerful methodology is still relatively new, this dissertation research will help refine the use of strontium and lead isotope analyses in archaeology, and will help convince the archaeological community of its utility. In addition, this research will elucidate the relationship between the capital city at Tiwanaku and possible Tiwanaku sites in the hinterlands, and will help Andeanists resolve the debate on the nature of the Tiwanaku polity. Finally, because most information on imperial strategies comes from regions and time periods for which written records exist, this research on Tiwanaku heartland-hinterland interactions and imperial strategies will expand current knowledge on the role of residential mobility in prehistoric state development and maintenance. The work will also assist in training a promising young scientist.