Collaborative Research: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Identity in the Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Period Transition in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

合作研究：智利圣佩德罗·德·阿塔卡马中期到中晚期过渡时期身份的生物考古学方法

• 批准号: 0721388
• 负责人: Kelly Knudson
• 金额: $ 13.86万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0721388&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Bioarchaeological; Approach; Identity

Principal Investigators Christina Torres-Rouff and Kelly J. Knudson will examine the complex relationships between cultural and biological identity in the San Pedro de Atacama oasis of northern Chile during the unstable time between AD 750-1470. In the course of this period, individuals living in northern Chile's Atacama Desert endured the collapse of an influential foreign state, poverty, environmental decline, and the appearance of a culturally distinct group nearby, all of which may have affected how identity was portrayed in the body and the grave. The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the construction, projection, and manipulation of Atacameno identity during this tumultuous prehistoric transition using an integrative and multidisciplinary approach.This research project will address these issues during three seasons of data collection from 1,224 skeletal remains and their associated mortuary context housed at the Museo Arqueologico R.P. Le Paige in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile and bioarchaeological and biogeochemical laboratory and statistical analyses at Colorado College and Arizona State University in the United States. Given the size and depth of the sample, the proposed research will make substantive contributions to studies of identity, as well as advance methodological inquiries in bioarchaeology and archaeological chemistry. The broader impacts of this research project include the training of North and South American undergraduate and graduate students and a more general integration of research and education such that students will gain a full understanding of the research process, from problem formulation to data collection to analysis and interpretation, which they can subsequently apply to their own projects. By exploring the ways that cultural identity is used to create distinction, archaeology and physical anthropology can find contemporary relevance for societies experiencing social instability, environmental disruption and sectarian violence. Finally, the Principal Investigators are committed to integrating diversity into their education and research programs. The presence of two female Principal Investigators, one of whom is a minority, and the inclusion of both Chilean and North American students will help create a scientific community that reflects the global population.

首席调查人员克里斯蒂娜·托雷斯-鲁夫和凯利·J·克努森将研究公元750-1470年间不稳定时期智利北部圣佩德罗·德·阿塔卡马绿洲文化和生物特征之间的复杂关系。在此期间，居住在智利北部阿塔卡马沙漠的个人经历了一个有影响力的外国国家的崩溃、贫困、环境衰退，以及附近一个不同文化群体的出现，所有这些都可能影响了身体和坟墓中对身份的描绘。这项拟议研究的目标是用综合和多学科的方法调查在这一动荡的史前过渡期间阿塔卡门诺身份的构建、预测和操纵。这项研究项目将在三个季度的数据收集过程中解决这些问题，这些数据来自智利圣佩德罗德·德·德·勒佩奇博物馆的1,224具骨骼遗骸及其相关的停尸房，以及美国科罗拉多学院和亚利桑那州立大学的生物考古和生物地球化学实验室和统计分析。鉴于样本的大小和深度，拟议的研究将对身份研究以及推进生物考古学和考古化学的方法论研究做出实质性贡献。这一研究项目的更广泛影响包括对北美和南美本科生和研究生的培训，以及更广泛的研究和教育一体化，使学生对研究过程有充分的了解，从问题的形成到数据收集到分析和解释，他们随后可以将这些过程应用于他们自己的项目。通过探索文化认同被用来创造区别的方式，考古学和体质人类学可以找到与经历社会不稳定、环境破坏和宗派暴力的社会的当代相关性。最后，首席调查人员致力于将多样性融入他们的教育和研究计划。两名女性首席调查员(其中一人是少数民族)的存在以及智利和北美学生的加入将有助于创建一个反映全球人口的科学界。