Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Economic Development of a Specialized Coastal Community at Chengue, the Tairona Area, Colombia

博士论文改进补助金：哥伦比亚泰罗纳地区 Chengue 专业沿海社区的经济发展

• 批准号: 0431705
• 负责人: Robert Drennan
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 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: 2004-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431705&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Economic

Under the supervision of Dr. Robert D. Drennan, Alejandro Dever will carry out surface survey and test excavations at the Tairona site of Chengue in the Tairona National Natural and Archaeological Park on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The earliest villages in the region appeared ca. 300 A.D. Very fast socio-economic growth between 600- 800 A.D.led to the colonization of the Sierra Nevada's (the dominant mountain range in the region) steep slopes in the archaeological equivalent of a flashpoint. Chengue is notable because it was among the first village to be formed with an economy that was most likely based on a specialized mode of production. It is also interesting because there is evidence that it was formed during a very fast developmental period between 600 and 800 A.D. The archaeological remains at Chengue have not been studied in detail, but superficial observations and collection of remains suggest that approximately 100 households were present. The most noticeable remains consist of stone house foundations, water reservoirs and small scale public architecture including small stone fortifications and paved roads. This research project focuses on the individual households within this large archaeological village and attempts to explain why very fast socio-economic changes occured. General anthropological processes such as economic specialization, trade, urbanization and social inequality cannot be understood without documenting how the everyday needs and choices of individual families and their communities contribute to and are affected by such processes. This project examines the community of Chengue from a household perspective, focusing on comparing the patterns of activities performed by individual households throughout the community. This should lead to an understanding of the social mechanisms that were dominant during the formation of this village. This reconstruction seeks to determine if villages such as Chengue were formed by individual families colonizing zones that were less advantageous from an agricultural point of view, in this case to exploit highly localized salt and marine resources. An alternative hypothesis is that Chengue is a the "colony" of a larger chiefdom that sought to control the salted fish production for the purpose of aggrandizing chiefs residing elsewhere. This alternative would suggest that the very fast growth of this society during the 600- 800 period was preceded and caused primarily by institutionalized political systems not individual entrepreneurial families. The project will have several broader impacts.. It will be an essential element in the training of the doctoral candidate. It will also contribute to the enhancement of the level of public understanding of science by collaborating with anthropologists and museologists involved in the construction of a Tairona National Museum. This museum is a Colombian government sponsored enterprise that will commence in late 2004. The project will provide information about the domestic and community life of the Tairona to the museum; talks will also be given to the general public.

在Robert D. Drennan，Alejandro Dever将在哥伦比亚加勒比海沿岸的Tairona国家自然和考古公园的Chengue Tairona遗址进行表面调查和测试挖掘。该地区最早的村庄出现在约。公元600- 800年之间的快速社会经济增长导致了对内华达州山脉（该地区的主要山脉）陡峭山坡的殖民化，在考古学上相当于一个闪点。陈格村之所以引人注目，是因为它是最早形成的一个经济体，最有可能是基于专业化生产模式的村庄之一。 它也很有趣，因为有证据表明它是在公元600年至800年之间的一个非常快速的发展时期形成的。最引人注目的遗迹包括石头房子的基础，水库和小规模的公共建筑，包括小石头防御工事和铺设的道路。这个研究项目的重点是在这个大型考古村的个别家庭，并试图解释为什么非常快速的社会经济变化发生。 如果不记录各个家庭及其社区的日常需要和选择如何促成并受这些进程的影响，就无法理解经济专业化、贸易、城市化和社会不平等等一般人类学进程。本项目从家庭的角度考察了成格社区，重点是比较整个社区各个家庭的活动模式。这应该导致对这个村庄形成期间占主导地位的社会机制的理解。 这一重建试图确定像Chengue这样的村庄是否是由单个家庭殖民从农业角度来看不太有利的地区形成的，在这种情况下，是为了开发高度本地化的盐和海洋资源。另一种假设是，成盖是一个更大的酋长领地的“殖民地”，该领地试图控制咸鱼生产，以扩大居住在其他地方的酋长的势力。 这一替代方案表明，在600- 800年期间，这个社会的快速增长主要是由制度化的政治制度而不是个体企业家家庭所导致的。该项目将产生广泛的影响。这将是培养博士生的一个重要因素。它还将通过与参与建设泰罗纳国家博物馆的人类学家和博物馆学家合作，为提高公众对科学的理解水平做出贡献。该博物馆是哥伦比亚政府赞助的企业，将于2004年底开始。该项目将向博物馆提供有关Tairona家庭和社区生活的信息;还将向公众进行讲座。