Doctoral Dissertation Research: Colonization and Social Interaction in Early Medieval Southeastern Austria

在Tina L博士的监督下。Thurston，K.帕特里克法吉奥利将研究在中世纪早期的阿尔卑斯山东部地区，今天包括奥地利东部，匈牙利西部和北方斯洛文尼亚的部分地区的日常社会和经济互动的物质相关性。从公元8世纪开始，历史资料表明，主要来自巴伐利亚的德语群体在扩张的法兰克帝国的支持下向东南迁移到阿尔卑斯河谷。这些日耳曼移民定居在当地讲斯拉夫语的人口中。虽然这两个不同的群体将形成一个新兴的中世纪社会的基础，早期的书面记录几乎没有提供他们最初的社会经济关系的迹象。日耳曼人和斯拉夫人的相遇是否导致了广泛的经济融合和快速的文化克理奥尔化，或者每个群体都保留了一定程度的经济和民族自治？ 该项目将通过分析两个关键数据集来阐明这些重要过程。首先，行人和土壤化学调查将被用来帮助重建沿着奥地利施泰尔马克省的穆尔河流域中部的文化景观。通过记录中世纪早期农场的位置，田地边界，道路和垃圾堆，这些调查将揭示中世纪早期社区如何组织和概念化他们居住的空间。其次，对从调查中收集到的中世纪早期陶器以及该地区以前的发掘物进行成分分析，将有助于建立当地工艺生产和分布的模式。从这两个数据集得出的结论将更清楚地说明日耳曼/斯拉夫相互作用的性质和范围，在这一关键但神秘的欧洲中东部历史时期。 这个研究项目的智力价值是多方面的。它解决了殖民化，国家整合和“文化接触”在一个决定性的前现代和非资本主义背景下的问题。它强调平凡的日常活动在建立和维护个人和群体身份方面的重要性。这些日常习俗在历史资料中很少被提及，但通常可以通过考古分析恢复。本项目力求综合历史和材料记录，既能利用每种方法的优势，又能承认其局限性。该项目将在美国和欧洲产生广泛的积极影响。它将促进美国和奥地利考古学家和学生之间的合作，为这个迷人但研究不足的地区的考古探索提供进一步的机会。在纽约州布法罗和奥地利威尔登建立一个详细的网站和实施一个公共外联方案将提高该项目的知名度。在专业会议上的发言和在学术期刊上的发表肯定会对一些相关问题的科学文献作出贡献。最后，该项目将在共同PI的博士培训中发挥重要作用，特别是在土壤化学表征和陶瓷矿物学技术方面，以及其他研究生和本科生将在实验室和实地工作中提供帮助。

Under the supervision of Dr. Tina L. Thurston, K. Patrick Fazioli will examine the material correlates of daily social and economic interaction in the early medieval eastern Alpine region, an area that today encompasses parts of eastern Austria, western Hungary, and northern Slovenia. Beginning in the 8th century AD, historical sources indicate that Germanic-speaking groups primarily from Bavaria migrated southeastward into Alpine river valleys under the auspices of an expanding Frankish empire. These Germanic immigrants settled amidst a local Slavic-speaking population. Although the two distinct groups would form the basis of an emergent medieval society, early written records provide almost no indication of their initial socioeconomic relationship. Did this encounter of Germanic and Slavic communities result in extensive economic integration and rapid cultural creolization, or did each group retain a degree of economic and ethnic autonomy? This project will shed light on these important processes by analyzing two critical datasets. First, pedestrian and soil chemical surveys will be employed to help reconstruct cultural landscapes along the middle Mur river valley in the Austrian province of Steiermark. By documenting the locations of early medieval farmsteads, field boundaries, pathways, and trash middens, these surveys will reveal how early medieval communities organized and conceptualized the space in which they lived. Secondly, compositional analyses of early medieval pottery collected from the surveys as well as from previous excavations in the region will help to establish local patterns of craft production and distribution. The conclusions drawn from these two datasets will provide greater clarity on the nature and scope of Germanic/Slavic interaction during this critical but enigmatic period of east-central European history. The intellectual merits of this research project are numerous. It addresses issues of colonization, state integration, and "culture contact" in a decidedly pre-modern and non-capitalist context. It emphasizes the importance of mundane, everyday activities in the construction and maintenance of individual and group identity. These daily practices are rarely mentioned in historical sources, but can often be recovered through archaeological analysis. This project seeks to synthesize the historical and material records in a way that can capitalize on the strengths yet acknowledge the limitations of each approach. This project will have broad positive impacts in both the U.S. and Europe. It will facilitate collaborative efforts between American and Austrian archaeologists and students, providing further opportunities for archaeological exploration in this fascinating but understudied region. The creation of a detailed website and implementation of a public outreach program in Buffalo, NY and Wildon, Austria will enhance the visibility of the project. Presentations at professional conferences and publication in scholarly journals will surely contribute to the scientific literature on a number of relevant issues. Finally, this project will play a major role in the doctoral training of the co-PI, specifically in the techniques of soil chemical characterization and ceramic mineralogy, as well as that of other graduate and undergraduate students who will aid in the laboratory and fieldwork.