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

博士论文改进：秘鲁奇卡马谷中型中心的莫切社会政治组织

• 批准号: 1032294
• 负责人: Jeffrey Quilter
• 金额: $ 1.9万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1032294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Moche; Sociopolitical

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.

在杰弗里·奎尔特（Jeffrey Quilter）博士的指导下，米歇尔·昆斯（Michele Koons）女士将从一个以前未被研究过的角度，研究秘鲁莫切考古文化（公元100-800年）的社会政治性质：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的：北部和南部。然而，学者们对这个社会是如何运作的，以及不同的定居点是如何在区域内整合形成物质上公认的莫切人，还只是处于了解的边缘。到目前为止，关于莫切人的大部分数据都来自于最大的遗址、定居模式调查和未经证实的精细陶瓷。较小的仪式中心的作用很少受到关注。昆斯将考察Licapa II的中型遗址。这将是第一个从这个至关重要但尚未得到充分研究的角度来探讨莫切人的社会政治性质、经济基础和意识形态策略的研究。昆斯将比较Licapa II的建筑和陶瓷与El Brujo和Huacas de Moche大型遗址的数据的异同之处，以及其他存在此类数据的Moche中心。对这两个数据集的评估将有助于确定Licapa II是否依赖于大型中心，是一个独立的中心，还是一个更大、更流动的站点网络的一部分。本研究涉及人类学的一个基本问题：复杂社会的起源。它将通过检查莫切中心之间的动态来评估地缘政治景观的性质。重建文化，如莫切人，只基于从最富有和最大的遗址获得的信息，这极大地影响了人们对他们的看法。为了更全面地了解莫切社会是如何运作的，需要更多地关注中型和小型遗址。对Licapa II中型遗址的挖掘和分析将为将大型莫切中心的丰富信息置于背景下提供基础，并评估莫切是否应该被视为一个国家，一系列独立的相互作用的政策，或者是否以其他方式组织起来。该项目将培训哈佛大学和Naciónal德特鲁希略大学的学生。秘鲁的Chocope、Magdalena de Cao和San Jose de Moro社区的成员将被雇佣到现场工作，并帮助清理这些文物。为了帮助社区，昆斯为当地的学生做了演讲，并与秘鲁万查科的文化中心进行了安排，向公众展示了这项工作的成果。她还计划与其他秘鲁青年学者在秘鲁和平与发展中心组织一次专题讨论会，向学术界和公众传播这些信息。田野调查的结果和本论文收集的信息分析将发表在学术期刊上。论文也将在美国的会议上发表，如SAAs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Licapa II工作，以进一步将这个重要的莫切中心的作用置于背景中。