Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Community Formation, Migration, and Social Transformation in Ancestral Puebloan Society

博士论文改进补助金：普韦布洛祖先社会的社区形成、移民和社会转型

• 批准号: 0451354
• 负责人: Keith Kintigh
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: Arizona 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: 2004-12-01 至 2005-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0451354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Community

Under the supervision of Dr. Keith Kintigh, Gregson Schachner will conduct a research project aimed at understanding the formation of ancestral Puebloan villages in the El Morro Valley of west-central New Mexico during the AD 1200s. Prior to the thirteenth century, the El Morro Valley was used by nearby Puebloan populations as a resource gathering area and for sporadic, short-term habitation. However, by the late AD 1200s, thousands of migrant Puebloan farmers founded a series of villages and transformed the El Morro Valley into one of the largest population centers on the Colorado Plateau. Schachner's research will utilize analyses of regional settlement patterns and ceramic exchange in order to understand the process of migration and its resulting effects on community formation.The formation of social networks that structure social interaction on a local level is one of the key processes ensuring successful human settlements. The ubiquity of these networks in daily life makes their appearance seem unproblematic and timeless. However, it is during the formation of these networks that dramatic changes in community structure and traditions may occur. Schachner's research will examine the process of community formation during a period following the movement of migrant groups into an uninhabited area where few aspects of community or place had been previously defined. By focusing on the variety of ways in which communities formed under these circumstances, this project will explore how local social networks emerge, function, and are transformed through human interaction.Schachner's study will employ a two-pronged, comparative methodology focused on ancient El Morro Valley settlement patterns and ceramic exchange. Settlement pattern analyses will highlight the chronology, patterns of growth, and social scale of community formation in multiple villages. This project will also employ instrumental neutron activation analysis to track the exchange of two different ceramic types in order to assess the geographic origins of migrant populations, social diversity within newly founded communities, and the maintenance of external social ties that are often key channels of population movement and continuing social support. By utilizing a variety of methods and types of data, Schachner's study will contribute to a growing body of scholarship that focuses on the interplay between population movement, community formation, and pan-regional social transformations in small-scale societies.This research is a key component of the training of a young scholar and will contribute to an ongoing project that integrates graduate and undergraduate researchers. Site and ceramic data from this project will be available to other scholars in the New Mexico Cultural Resource Information System and the University of Missouri Archaeometry Lab ceramic compositional database, respectively. This project will form the basis of a Ph.D. dissertation, be summarized in professional articles, and presented in public formats. This study also focuses on a key period of ancestral Puebloan history and may be of interest to local tribal peoples. In addition, fieldwork for this research has been largely conducted on private lands and ongoing cooperation with local landowners provides an important avenue for encouraging archaeological site preservation in a rapidly developing area.

在基思金蒂博士的监督下，格雷格森·沙赫纳将进行一个研究项目，旨在了解公元1200年代新墨西哥州中西部埃尔莫罗山谷中祖先普韦布洛人村庄的形成。在13世纪之前，附近的普韦布洛人将El Morro山谷用作资源聚集区和零星的短期居住地。然而，到公元13世纪末，成千上万的普韦布洛农民建立了一系列村庄，并将埃尔莫罗山谷变成了科罗拉多高原上最大的人口中心之一。Schachner的研究将利用区域定居模式和陶瓷交换的分析，以了解移民的过程及其对社区形成的影响。在地方层面上构建社会互动的社交网络的形成是确保人类住区成功的关键过程之一。这些网络在日常生活中无处不在，使得它们的出现似乎没有问题，也没有时间限制。然而，正是在这些网络的形成过程中，社区结构和传统可能发生巨大变化。Schachner的研究将探讨社区形成的过程中，在一段时间后，移民群体进入一个无人居住的地区，社区或地方的几个方面已经被定义。通过关注在这些情况下社区形成的各种方式，该项目将探索当地社交网络如何出现，功能，并通过人类互动进行改造。Schachner的研究将采用双管齐下的比较方法，重点关注古代El Morro山谷定居模式和陶瓷交换。定居模式分析将突出年表，增长模式，并在多个村庄的社区形成的社会规模。该项目还将采用仪器中子活化分析来跟踪两种不同陶瓷类型的交换，以评估移民人口的地理来源、新成立社区内的社会多样性以及外部社会联系的维持，这些联系往往是人口流动和持续社会支持的关键渠道。通过利用各种方法和数据类型，Schachner的研究将有助于不断增长的学术机构，重点是人口流动，社区形成和小规模社会的泛区域社会变革之间的相互作用。这项研究是年轻学者培训的关键组成部分，并将有助于正在进行的项目，整合研究生和本科生研究人员。该项目的遗址和陶瓷数据将分别提供给新墨西哥州文化资源信息系统和密苏里州大学考古实验室陶瓷成分数据库的其他学者。该项目将成为博士学位的基础。论文，在专业文章中总结，并以公共格式呈现。这项研究还侧重于祖先普韦布洛历史的一个关键时期，可能是当地部落民族的兴趣。此外，这项研究的实地工作主要是在私人土地上进行的，与当地土地所有者的持续合作为鼓励在一个迅速发展的地区保护考古遗址提供了一个重要途径。