Dissertation Research: Lithic Raw Material Procurement Patterns and the Social Landscape in the Central Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 600-1300

论文研究：公元 600-1300 年中部梅萨维德地区的石质原材料采购模式和社会景观

• 批准号: 0408793
• 负责人: Timothy Kohler
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2005-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0408793&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Lithic; Raw; Material

Under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Kohler (also the PI of the NSF-sponsored "Village Ecodynamic Project"), Fumiyasu Arakawa will investigate toolstone procurement patterns from A.D. 600 to 1300 in the central Mesa Verde region, a region that includes the Dolores Valley, Ute Mountain, and McElmo/Yellowjacket areas of southwestern Colorado. Toolstone procurement patterns reflect important aspects of territoriality and land-tenure systems by suggesting how far and how often people traveled to obtain raw materials. To understand toolstone procurement patterns, this research concentrates on studying debitage (manufacturing by-products) of various raw material types and the distance from their source areas to archaeological sites. Activities--hunting, gathering, and domestic purposes--related to additional lithic source identification, and additional debitage analysis, will be implemented, building on already strong r egional datasets in the study area. The database assembled will be organized in a geographic information system by six periods, making it easy to visualize differences between periods.The spatial distribution of stone raw materials is greatly understudied in this region, despite the fact that pilot studies indicate that these distributions inform on land use, community territoriality, and community interactions at increasing scales of analysis-from the residential site to the community, locality, and region. The perspectives gained on the social dynamics of the region with this database will be greatly enhanced by what is already known about this region and what else is being learned, and will contribute to ongoing and future studies in this region. Furthermore, this research is conducted by an international (Japanese) student, furthering the training of foreign researchers in American archaeological method and theory.Competing hypotheses for the major, still-unresolved questions concerning this area's prehistory (the causes for aggregation; the nature of the local Chacoan greathouses; the possibility of multiple ethnicities in this region; and the causes of the post-Pueblo I and post-Pueblo III depopulations) often depend on differing views of the social and spatial scales of conflict and cooperation. This research will assist in narrowing the range of possible models for these problem domains in the research area, and thereby help us understand similar processes in societies of similar scale elsewhere around the world.

在蒂莫西·科勒博士（也是NSF赞助的“乡村生态动力学项目”的PI）的监督下，荒川文康将调查公元600年至1300年梅萨维德地区中部的工具石采购模式，该地区包括多洛雷斯山谷、尤特山和科罗拉多西南部的麦克埃尔莫/黄石地区。工具石采购模式反映了领土和土地保有制度的重要方面，表明人们旅行多远和多久才能获得原材料。为了了解工具石采购模式，本研究集中研究各种原材料类型的借记（制造副产品）以及从其来源地区到考古遗址的距离。狩猎，采集和国内目的-有关额外的岩性源识别，和额外的debitage分析，将实施，建立在研究领域已经强大的区域数据集。该数据库将在地理信息系统中按六个时期进行组织，以便很容易地可视化不同时期之间的差异。尽管试点研究表明，这些分布在土地使用，社区领土和社区互动方面提供了信息，但该地区的石材原材料的空间分布在很大程度上未得到研究，从居住地到社区，地点，和地区。通过该数据库获得的关于该地区社会动态的观点将大大增强对该地区的了解和正在了解的其他内容，并将有助于该地区正在进行和未来的研究。此外，这项研究是由一个国际（日本）学生，促进美国考古方法和理论的外国研究人员的培训。对有关该地区史前史的主要的、尚未解决的问题提出相互竞争的假设（聚集的原因;查科当地妓院的性质;该地区多族裔的可能性;第一次普韦布洛战役和第三次普韦布洛战役后人口减少的原因）往往取决于对冲突与合作的社会和空间规模的不同看法。这项研究将有助于缩小研究领域中这些问题领域的可能模型的范围，从而帮助我们了解世界其他地方类似规模的社会中的类似过程。