Doctoral Dissertation Improvement: Moche Sociopolitical Organization from a Mid-Sized Center in the Chicama Valley, Peru

在杰弗里·奎尔特博士的监督下，米歇尔·昆斯女士将研究莫切考古文化的社会政治性质（C.E. 100-800）的秘鲁从一个以前未研究的角度莫切解决层次：一个中等规模的中心。莫切曾经被认为是一个统一的国家，现在被认为是由至少两个主要发展地区的不同定居点组成：北部和南部。然而，学者们只是在了解社会如何运作，以及不同的定居点如何在区域上整合，形成物质上被承认为莫什的边缘。到目前为止，关于莫切人的大部分数据来自最大的遗址、定居模式调查和未经证实的精美陶瓷。小型仪式中心的作用很少受到关注。昆斯将考察利卡帕二号的中型基地。这将是第一个研究，以解决社会政治性质，经济基础，和意识形态战略的莫什从这个关键的，但研究不足的角度。昆斯将比较利卡帕II的建筑和陶瓷与埃尔布鲁霍和瓦卡斯德莫切大型遗址以及其他存在此类数据的莫切中心的数据的异同。对这两个数据集的评估将有助于确定利卡帕II是否依赖于大型中心，是一个独立的中心，还是一个更大，更流动的网站网络的一部分。这项研究涉及人类学的一个基本问题：复杂社会的起源。它将通过研究莫切中心之间的动态来评估地缘政治景观的性质。根据仅从最富有和最大的遗址获得的信息来重建文化，如莫切文化，极大地影响了人们对这些文化的看法。为了更全面地了解莫切社会是如何运作的，需要更多地关注中小型遗址。对利卡帕二号中型遗址的挖掘和分析将提供一个基础，以背景化关于莫切大型中心的丰富信息，并评估莫切是否应被视为一个国家，一系列独立的相互作用的政体，或者它是否以其他方式组织起来。该项目将培训来自哈佛大学和特鲁希略国立大学的学生。 乔科佩、马格达莱纳德曹和秘鲁的圣何塞德摩罗社区的成员将被雇用在现场工作，并帮助清理文物。为了向社区宣传，昆斯向当地学童作了介绍，并与秘鲁万查科的文化中心作出安排，向公众介绍这项工作的成果。她还计划与其他秘鲁青年学者一起在PUCP组织一次研讨会，向学术界和公众传播信息。本论文所收集的资料的实地调查和分析结果将发表在学术期刊上。论文也将在美国的会议上发表，如SAA和东北安第斯会议。 最后，应该指出的是，昆斯计划在论文项目结束后继续在利卡帕II工作，以进一步了解这个重要的莫切中心的作用。

Under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Quilter, Ms. Michele Koons will examine the sociopolitical nature of the Moche archaeological culture (C.E. 100-800) of Peru from a previously unstudied perspective of the Moche settlement hierarchy: a mid-sized center. Once considered a unified state, Moche is now understood as consisting of diverse settlements in at least two major regions of development: the north and south. However, scholars are only at the brink of understanding how the society functioned and how the diverse settlements were regionally integrated to form what is materially recognized as Moche. Up until now, the majority of the data on the Moche has been derived from the largest sites, settlement pattern surveys, and unprovenienced fine ware ceramics. The role of smaller ceremonial centers has received little attention. Koons will examine the mid-sized site of Licapa II. This will be the first study to address the sociopolitical nature, economic base, and ideological strategies of the Moche from this crucial, yet understudied perspective. Koons will compare similarities and differences in architecture and ceramics from Licapa II to data from the large sites of El Brujo and Huacas de Moche, and other Moche centers for which such data exist. An evaluation of these two datasets will help determine if Licapa II was dependent on the large centers, was an independent center, or was part of a larger, more fluid network of sites.This study engages with a fundamental question in Anthropology: the origins of complex societies. It will do this by evaluating the nature of geopolitical landscapes by examining the dynamics between Moche centers. Reconstructing cultures, such as the Moche, based on information obtained from only the wealthiest and largest sites greatly biases the way in which they are perceived. In order to obtain a more holistic picture of how Moche society operated more attention needs to be focused on intermediate and small sites. The excavation and analysis of the mid-sized site of Licapa II will provide a basis to contextualize the wealth of information available on large Moche centers and evaluate whether or not Moche should be considered a state, a series of independent interacting polities, or if it was organized in some other manner. This project will train students from Harvard University and the Universidad Naciónal de Trujillo. Members of the communities of Chocope, Magdalena de Cao, and San Jose de Moro, Peru will be hired to work in the field and help with the cleaning of the artifacts. In an effort for community out reach, Koons has given presentations to local school children and has made arrangements with the cultural center in Huanchaco, Peru to give public presentations on the outcome of the work. She also plans to organize a symposium at PUCP with other young Peruvian scholars to disseminate the information to the scholarly community and the public. The results of the fieldwork and analysis of information collected for this dissertation will be published in scholarly journals. Papers will also be given at conferences in the US, such as the SAAs and Northeast Andean meeting. Finally, it should be noted that Koons plans to continue work at Licapa II after the termination of the dissertation project to further contextualize the role of this important Moche center.