Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Archaeology of the Colonial Period Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador

博士论文改进补助金：萨尔瓦多丰塞卡湾殖民时期考古学

• 批准号: 0606656
• 负责人: Rosemary Joyce
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-15 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0606656&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Archaeology

Under the supervision of Dr. Rosemary A. Joyce, Esteban Gomez will analyze data gathered during his archaeological excavation of Conchagua Vieja, an indigenous village site on the island of Conchaguita, in the Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador. Based on ethnohistorical research, Conchagua Vieja was inhabited by Lenca-speaking peoples at the time of Spanish contact in 1524. Excavations at Conchagua Vieja will examine the changing nature of household level organization and external relations in response to the stress of social, political, and economic reorganization initiated by Spanish contact and colonial administration. Moments of culture contact, colonialism and missionization often disrupt access to resources, affect the nature and organization of household economic production, and alter the social practices that maintain intra-community social cohesion. To examine these changes archaeologically, detailed studies of activity areas at the household level will be undertaken to reveal past subsistence practices, production and processing, exchange, and links to wider regional and interregional spheres. Since food processing and consumption encompass so many of the activities one would expect to occur in residential areas, the determination of subsistence-related activities and activity areas is critical. To evaluate the organization of activity areas, this project will focus on architecture, portable artifacts and occupational debris, as well as examine micro-residues of plants and animals, and chemical signatures of activity areas. The goal is to observe the basic organizational principles of people in action.Archival documents and ethnohistoric accounts will be incorporated to provide a separate line of evidence to evaluate culture change and continuity at Conchagua Vieja, in particular, and to define the changes in economic and political structures that structured the residents' daily lives. Data gathered from excavations, laboratory analyses, and historical documentation will form the basis for a multi-scalar approach to examine social interaction at various levels: integration of households at the community level; economic networks within the Gulf of Fonseca region; and economic linkages with communities in other regions. Explaining higher order processes must begin with an understanding of local communities and patterns of domestic organization.Research at Conchagua Vieja will make a significant contribution to archaeological knowledge of economic networks in the Gulf of Fonseca, an under-studied region that was critical to inter-regional exchange both before and during colonization, and to the region's participation in broader networks of exchange and communication along the Pacific Coast and other regions of Central America. Beyond research questions of interest to social scientists, the project will have a broader impact by enhancing the level of public understanding of science at the local scale. In the Gulf of Fonseca, public outreach associated with the project will focus on the modern town of Conchaguita, and the Casa de Cultura of La Union, Department of La Union, El Salvador. The Casa de Cultura program is a federally sponsored initiative that aims to inform the general public of El Salvador's regional histories. Outreach efforts consist of school visits and lectures on archaeological research. Research at Conchagua Vieja will also provide field and laboratory training for undergraduate students at the Universidad Tecnologica of San Salvador, and will develop a collaborative research environment between U.S. researchers and Salvadoran institutions.

在迷迭香博士的监督下。乔伊斯，埃斯特班戈麦斯将分析他在考古挖掘期间收集的数据，康查瓜维耶哈，一个土著村庄遗址的康查圭塔岛，在丰塞卡湾，萨尔瓦多萨尔瓦多。 根据民族历史研究，在1524年西班牙人与当地人接触时，孔查瓜维哈居住着说伦卡语的人。 在Conchagua Vieja的研究将研究家庭一级组织和外部关系的变化性质，以应对西班牙接触和殖民管理引发的社会，政治和经济重组的压力。 文化接触、殖民主义和传教的时刻往往破坏资源的获取，影响家庭经济生产的性质和组织，并改变维持社区内部社会凝聚力的社会习俗。 为了从考古学角度研究这些变化，将对家庭一级的活动领域进行详细研究，以揭示过去的生计做法、生产和加工、交换以及与更广泛的区域和区域间领域的联系。由于食品加工和消费包含了人们预期会在居民区发生的许多活动，因此确定与生计有关的活动和活动地区至关重要。 为了评估活动区的组织情况，该项目将侧重于建筑、便携式文物和职业废弃物，并检查动植物的微量残留物和活动区的化学特征。 其目的是观察人们在行动中的基本组织原则，将纳入档案文件和民族历史记录，以提供单独的证据，特别是评估Conchagua Vieja的文化变化和连续性，并确定构成居民日常生活的经济和政治结构的变化。 从挖掘、实验室分析和历史文献中收集的数据将构成多尺度方法的基础，以审查各级社会互动：社区一级的家庭融合;丰塞卡湾区域内的经济网络;以及与其他区域社区的经济联系。 解释更高层次的过程必须开始与当地社区和国内组织的模式的理解，在孔查瓜维哈的研究将作出重大贡献，丰塞卡湾的经济网络，一个未得到充分研究的地区，是至关重要的区域间交流之前和期间的殖民化，以及该区域参与沿着太平洋海岸和中美洲其他区域的更广泛的交流和通信网络。 除了社会科学家感兴趣的研究问题之外，该项目还将通过提高当地公众对科学的理解水平产生更广泛的影响。 在丰塞卡湾，与该项目有关的公共宣传将侧重于现代化的Conchaguita镇和萨尔瓦多拉乌尼翁省拉乌尼翁文化之家。 文化之家计划是一项由联邦政府发起的倡议，旨在向公众介绍萨尔瓦多的地区历史。 外联工作包括学校访问和关于考古研究的讲座。 Conchagua Vieja的研究还将为圣萨尔瓦多技术大学的本科生提供实地和实验室培训，并将在美国研究人员和萨尔瓦多机构之间建立合作研究环境。