The Articulation of Political Strategies and Regional Structure in the Teuchitlan Tradition of Western Mexico 2003 Season

2003 年墨西哥西部 Teuchitlan 传统中政治战略和区域结构的阐述

• 批准号: 0210871
• 负责人: Christopher Beekman
• 金额: $ 7.8万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0210871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Articulation; Political; Strategies; Regional; Structure

With National Science Foundation support Dr. Christopher Beekman and his colleagues will conduct archaeological field and laboratory research at the ancient settlement of Navajas in the highland lake district of western Mexico. The project brings together specialists in archaeology, palynology, phytolith, and macrobotanical remains to carry out a coordinated investigation of a stratified society in ancient Mesoamerica. This is part of a continuing program of NSF funded research directed towards a better understanding of cooperation and competition among elites in West Mexican society from around A.D. 100-900. These issues are being addressed in the Tequila valleys of highland central Jalisco, where a series of transitions back and forth between intensive factional competition, and its apparent suppression in a consolidated polity, offer an opportunity to study the mechanisms by which elite competition and individual aggrandizement are being harnessed and redirected in a way that promotes cooperation and the formation of a state. This is particularly significant because these changes in local strategy relate to larger economic changes in the region, as the increased use of imported goods that accompanies local competition appears to coincide with the formation of long distance trade networks to obtain those goods. Specifically, field research will focus on wide area excavations across multiple structures and open spaces in public architecture at the late settlement of Navajas, which will be used to complement prior NSF funded research at the earlier settlement of Llano Grande. The excavations will provide data regarding labor organization and the construction of the public architecture, and the activities taking place both in public spaces and within the more restricted structures. Laboratory analyses of artifacts and soil samples conducted at several different universities will follow up with three important tasks: to determine the origins of artifacts recovered, to develop a refined chronology, and to test existing proposals that activities within the public architecture may have related to agricultural ritual. Dr. Beekman and his collaborators will focus on the following questions: 1) What changes occurred in the organization of labor and the association of descent groups with sections of the architecture? 2) What activities took place in these public spaces and how did this change between the periods of consolidation and decline of this society? 3) To what degree may these very local strategies by elites have corresponded to regional changes in economic or political networks?

在国家科学基金会的支持下，克里斯托弗·比克曼博士和他的同事将在墨西哥西部高原湖区的纳瓦亚斯古定居点进行考古实地和实验室研究。该项目汇集了考古学、孢粉学、植硅石和大型植物学遗迹方面的专家，对古代中美洲的分层社会进行协调调查。这是NSF资助的一项持续研究计划的一部分，旨在更好地了解公元100-900年左右西墨西哥社会精英之间的合作和竞争。这些问题正在哈利斯科高原中部的特基拉山谷中得到解决，在那里，激烈的派系竞争和在一个统一的政体中明显的压制之间的一系列来回转变提供了一个机会，可以研究精英竞争和个人扩张被利用和重新定向的机制，以促进合作和国家的形成。这一点特别重要，因为地方战略的这些变化与该区域更大的经济变化有关，因为伴随着地方竞争而增加使用进口货物似乎与为获得这些货物而形成的远距离贸易网络同时发生。具体而言，实地研究将集中在Navajas后期定居点公共建筑中的多个结构和开放空间的大面积挖掘，这将用于补充之前NSF资助的拉诺格兰德早期定居点的研究。挖掘工作将提供有关劳工组织和公共建筑建设的数据，以及在公共空间和更受限制的结构内发生的活动。在几所不同的大学进行的文物和土壤样本的实验室分析将跟进三个重要任务：确定文物的起源恢复，制定一个完善的年表，并测试现有的建议，在公共建筑内的活动可能与农业仪式。比克曼博士和他的合作者将集中在以下问题：1）在劳动组织和血统群体与建筑部分的关联发生了什么变化？2)在这些公共空间里发生了什么活动，在这个社会的巩固和衰落之间发生了什么变化？3)精英们的这些非常地方性的战略在多大程度上与经济或政治网络的区域变化相对应？