Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Investigating the Material Dimensions of Colonialism: The Impact of the Roman State in Southern Gaul

博士论文改进补助金：调查殖民主义的物质维度：罗马国家对高卢南部的影响

• 批准号: 0935847
• 负责人: Michael Dietler
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935847&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Investigating

Under the supervision of Dr. Michael Dietler (University of Chicago), Benjamin Luley will investigate the changes in daily life that occurred for the Celtic-speaking peoples of what is today southern France at the archaeological sites of Lattes, Nages, Ambrussum, Nîmes, and Narbonne after the Roman conquest. The first four sites were indigenous, densely-settled fortified cities with populations of several thousand inhabitants, whereas the site of Narbonne was an old and very important Roman colony. The region of southern France came under Roman control after 121 B.C., and scholars have often assumed that the peoples of this region willingly and consciously adopted Roman practices and values in a process referred to as 'Romanization'. However, very few studies have investigated the ways in which daily life changed for the native populations of the conquered Roman provinces. As a result, archaeologists have been unable to address the specific ways in which the Roman state impacted indigenous life and the ways in which the indigenous peoples of the provinces became integrated into the Roman Empire and participated in imperial society. This research will involve a new synthesis of the results from excavations at the five sites combined with a residue analysis of sample ceramics, as well as participation in the ongoing excavations at Lattes. This approach breaks with more traditional attempts at investigating the Roman provinces that have largely ignored the daily, domestic aspects of life. In particular, no residue analysis has ever been performed on ceramics from this region, and this project will allow archaeologists to better understand what local peoples were consuming and how these practices changed over time.In a post-colonial world, the effects of modern colonialism are still emphatically present throughout the globe. However, there is a general lacuna in knowledge about the role of daily material life in the changes associated with colonialism. Furthermore, the majority of studies of colonialism have focused on the expansion of modern world powers since the growth of capitalism, primarily through the literary and ethnographic record. This research will therefore provide a needed material perspective for broader comparative studies on colonialism by using a notably rich and well-documented record of colonial interaction in southern France that spanned several centuries. Through a focus on the material dimensions of daily life, the research will address this notable lacuna and allow for an understanding of how the material world functions in colonial transformations. This project will foster interaction between French, Spanish, Catalonian, and American archaeologists at one of the most important international archaeological sites in Western Europe and contribute to deeper collaborative efforts between the French Centre national de la Recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Chicago.

在迈克尔·迪特勒博士（芝加哥大学）的监督下，本杰明·卢利将调查罗马征服后，在拉特斯、纳日、安布鲁苏姆、尼姆和纳博讷的考古遗址上，今天法国南部讲凯尔特语的民族日常生活发生的变化。 前四个遗址是土著居民，人口稠密的设防城市，人口数千人，而纳博讷遗址是一个古老而非常重要的罗马殖民地。 公元前121年后，法国南部地区被罗马人控制，学者们常常认为，这一地区的人民在一个被称为“罗马化”的过程中自愿和有意识地采用了罗马的做法和价值观。 然而，很少有研究调查被征服的罗马省份的土著居民日常生活的变化。 因此，考古学家一直无法解决罗马国家影响土著生活的具体方式，以及各省土著人民融入罗马帝国并参与帝国社会的方式。 这项研究将涉及一个新的综合结果，从挖掘在五个网站结合残留物分析样品陶瓷，以及参与正在进行的挖掘在拉特斯。 这种方法打破了传统的调查罗马省份的尝试，在很大程度上忽略了日常生活，家庭生活的方面。 特别是，该地区的陶瓷从未进行过残留物分析，该项目将使考古学家更好地了解当地人的消费以及这些做法如何随着时间的推移而变化。在后殖民时代的世界中，现代殖民主义的影响仍然突出地存在于整个地球仪中。 然而，对于日常物质生活在与殖民主义相关的变化中的作用，人们的认识普遍存在空白。 此外，大多数对殖民主义的研究都集中在资本主义发展以来现代世界强国的扩张上，主要是通过文学和民族志记录。 因此，这项研究将提供一个更广泛的比较研究殖民主义所需的材料的角度，使用一个显着丰富的和有据可查的记录，在法国南部的殖民互动，跨越几个世纪。 通过关注日常生活的物质层面，研究将解决这一显着的空白，并允许了解物质世界如何在殖民地转型中发挥作用。该项目将促进法国，西班牙，加泰罗尼亚和美国考古学家在西欧最重要的国际考古遗址之一的互动，并有助于法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）和芝加哥大学之间更深入的合作。