Collaborative Research: Sourcing Interaction in the Woodland Period Southeast U.S.: Integrated Approaches to Swift Creek Ceramics

在国家科学基金会的支持下，尼尔沃利斯博士和托马斯普鲁克哈恩博士将使用一种独特的陶器形式来确定美国东南部“南方腹地”在伍德兰晚期和晚期的社会互动模式。公元200年至800年）。 被称为“斯威夫特溪复杂的邮票陶器”，并与斯威夫特溪和韦登岛考古文化，它有可能提供一个意想不到的洞察史前社会组织。 在干燥和烧制之前，这些容器用雕刻的木桨的印记装饰。 400多个单独雕刻的木制船桨的独特“指纹”已经在复杂的印章船只上的印记中被识别出来，并且可以在分布在多个地点的船只上识别出相同的船桨印章，有时相距数百公里。 这些网站之间的“桨比赛”为社会联系提供了详细的时间和空间分辨率。 这项研究作出了重大贡献，目前有限的机构的人类学知识的社会互动和交流之间的非等级，觅食，或部落社会在前殖民世界。 这对于界定可能与村庄聚集、土墩建造、丧葬习俗和远距离交流等重要趋势相关的互动模式也很重要。 该项目整合了五种分析方法：（1）仪器中子活化分析（INAA），（2）岩相分析，（3）桨印设计的数字成像，作为确定船只制造地点的补充方法;（4）技术分析，以确定船只是如何制造和使用的;（5）放射性碳测年，以制定设计和桨匹配的年表。 从分布在北方佛罗里达和南部格鲁吉亚的9个地区的24个地点收集检查，这些数据将被用来区分替代形式的相互作用。 更广泛的影响包括促进未来的合作研究，并以公开和及时的方式展示结果。 艰苦的研究已经确定了数百个斯威夫特克里克桨设计，但这些数据的研究潜力受到随意的数据管理的限制。 该项目将开发一个可搜索的数据库，将设计的高分辨率图像与其他船舶属性数据和绝对日期联系起来。 该数据库将整合多个数据集，并为整合越来越多的数据提供协同基础，这些数据可以丰富许多其他研究项目，特别是以区域为重点的论文和学位论文。 在佛罗里达自然历史博物馆的藏品数据库中进行维护和整合，研究数据库的部分内容也将向公众开放。 该数据库的网络版将为公众提供一个合作论坛，并对当前的研究成果进行综合解释。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Neill Wallis and Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn will use a unique form of pottery to identify patterns of social interaction across the "Deep South" of the southeastern U.S. during the late Middle and Late Woodland periods (ca. AD 200 to 800). Termed "Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery" and associated with the Swift Creek and Weeden Island archaeological cultures it has the potential to provide an unexpected insight into prehistoric social organization. Before drying and firing, the vessels were decorated with impressions from a carved wooden paddle. The unique "fingerprints" of more than 400 individual carved wooden paddles have been recognized in the impressions on complicated stamped vessels, and the same paddle stamp can be identified on vessels distributed across multiple sites, sometimes hundreds of kilometers apart. These "paddle matches" between sites lend detailed temporal and spatial resolution to social connections. This research makes a significant contribution to the currently limited body of anthropological knowledge of social interaction and exchange among non-hierarchical, foraging, or tribal societies in a precolonial world. It is also important in delimiting patterns of interaction that may be correlated with important trends such as village aggregation, mound-building, mortuary practice, and long-distance exchange. The project integrates five methods of analysis: (1) Instrumental Neutron Actication Analysis (INAA), (2) petrographic analysis, and (3) digital imaging of paddle stamp designs as complementary methods for determining where vessels were made; (4) technological analysis to identify how vessels were made and used; and (5) radiocarbon dating to develop a chronology of designs and paddle matches. Examining collections from 24 sites distributed across nine regions in northern Florida and southern Georgia, these data will be used to distinguish between alternative forms of interaction. Broader impacts include facilitating future collaborative research and presenting results in a public and timely fashion. Painstaking research has resulted in the identification of hundreds of Swift Creek paddle designs, but the research potential of these data has been limited by haphazard data management. The project will develop a searchable database that links high-resolution images of designs with other vessel attribute data and absolute dates. This database will integrate multiple datasets and provide the synergistic foundation for integrating a growing body of data that can enrich many other research projects, especially regionally-focused theses and dissertations. Maintained and integrated with the collections database at the Florida Museum of Natural History, portions of the research database will also be publicly accessible. The web accessible version of the database will provide a collaborative forum for the public and an interpretive synthesis of current research results.