Doctoral Dissertation Research: Proyecto Arqueologico Los Horcones

在Karl Taube博士的指导下，Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers将指导Los Horcones考古项目（PALH），该项目将研究恰帕斯太平洋海岸和特奥蒂瓦坎之间文化互动的本质，特奥蒂瓦坎是早期古典时期（公元300-500年）欧洲接触之前新大陆最大的城市。该项目将通过对恰帕斯海岸Los Horcones遗址的考古实地考察，扩大和多样化目前关于特奥蒂瓦坎与特奥蒂瓦坎山谷以外其他地区之间相互作用的看法。实地工作包括有限的现场测绘，雕刻纪念碑的位置，以及通过使用铲子测试坑对表面材料的系统调查。根据初步证据，将进行挖掘工作，以便检索关于各种材料的数据背景的信息。通过这一实地考察策略，PALH将解决具体的指导性问题：特奥蒂瓦坎和恰帕斯太平洋沿岸之间的文化互动的本质是什么？为了开始回答这个更大的问题，一系列更有针对性的问题将指导现场工作和随后的分析。这些问题将主要解决特奥蒂瓦坎对洛斯霍肯斯感兴趣的年代、政治、经济和军国主义动机问题，以及对相互作用的意识形态维度的理解。为了综合经济和意识形态方面的相互作用，世界系统的观点将被用来为调查提供组织框架。PALH位于中美洲偏远地区特奥蒂瓦坎人利益的更大对话中，因为它能够提供关于特奥蒂瓦坎与不同地点的不同关系的新信息，因此它将为这一更大的知识论战做出重要贡献。洛斯霍科恩斯位于通往索孔努斯科和危地马拉太平洋海岸的贸易路线的十字路口，具有战略意义。Los horcone在特奥蒂瓦坎和危地马拉太平洋海岸之间发挥调解作用的可能性需要进行经验调查，但Los horcone的地理位置肯定表明它有能力发挥某种调解作用。PALH有可能提供来自中间区域的新信息，而不是简单地重新分析现有数据，它将对中美洲早期古典时期文化互动的研究做出重要贡献。恰帕斯的太平洋海岸有着丰富的历史和考古，但却很少受到关注。PALH将通过其成果，并通过当地广播电台和当地学校的讲座将当地社区纳入其中，从而增加这一历史。PALH还将为来自美国和墨西哥的学生提供考古方法方面的培训。在更广泛的层面上，PALH寻求调查两个遥远地区之间文化互动的更广泛影响，这个问题在今天的全球化时代更加相关。当然，它提供了一个重要的例子，说明一个社区处于商品、服务和思想贸易和交换的十字路口，在重要的方面影响和影响着与他们交往的人。

Under the guidance of Dr. Karl Taube, Claudia Garcia-Des Lauriers will direct the Proyecto Arqueologico Los Horcones (PALH), which will examine the nature of cultural interaction between the Pacific Coast of Chiapas and Teotihuacan, the largest city in the New World prior to European contact during the Early Classic (AD 300-500). The project will amplify and diversify currently held ideas about interaction between Teotihuacan and other regions outside of the Teotihuacan Valley through archaeological fieldwork at the site of Los Horcones on the Chiapas Coast. The fieldwork includes limited mapping of the site, location of sculpted monuments, and a systematic investigation of surface materials through the use of shovel test pits. Based on preliminary evidence, excavations will be conducted in an effort to retrieve information on datable contexts for the various materials. Through this fieldwork strategy, PALH will address the specific guiding question: what is the nature of cultural interaction between Teotihuacan and the Pacific coast of Chiapas? In order to begin to answer this larger query, a series of more targeted questions will guide the fieldwork and subsequent analysis. These questions will largely address issues of chronology, political, economic and militaristic motivations for Teotihuacan's interest in Los Horcones and an understanding of ideological dimensions of interaction. In an effort to synthesize both economic and ideological aspects of interaction a World-Systems perspective will be used to provide organizing framework for the investigation. PALH is situated within the larger dialogue of Teotihuacan interests in distant regions of Mesoamerica and stands to make an important contribution to this larger intellectual polemic because of its ability to provide new information about the diverse relationships which Teotihuacan had with different sites. Los Horcones was strategically located at the crossroads of trade routes that led into the Soconusco and the Pacific Coast of Guatemala. The possibility that Los Horcones played a mediating role between Teotihuacan and the Pacific Coast of Guatemala needs to be investigated empirically, but certainly the geographic location of Los Horcones is suggestive of its capacity to have served in some mediating role. Through its potential to provide new information from an intermediate region rather than simply reanalyzing existing data, PALH will make an important contribution to the study of cultural interaction during the Early Classic Period in Mesoamerica.The Pacific Coast of Chiapas is rich in history and archaeology, but has received little attention. PALH will add to this history through its results and through incorporating the local community via the local radio station and lectures at local schools. PALH will also provide training in archaeological methods to participating students from the US and Mexico. On a broader level PALH, seeks to investigate the broader impact of cultural interaction between two distant regions, a question that is even more relevant today in the age of globalization. Certainly, it provides an important example of a community at the crossroads of trade and exchange of goods, services and ideas that was affected and affected the people they were interacting with in important ways.