U.S.-Mexico Planning Visit: Investigating the Interaction of Macro-Political Change on Local Landscape and Residence through Collaborative Archaeological Research, Yucatan, Mexico

在这个规划项目中，来自美国和墨西哥的研究人员将促进北卡罗来纳州大学、查佩尔山（UNC-CH）和墨西哥尤卡坦州瓦洛多利德的东方大学（UNO）的考古学家之间的合作。 合作的重点是对宏观政治变化与当地景观和住宅的相互作用进行考古调查。 由于尤卡坦州的特定职业历史，这一地区是一个很有前途的地方进行这项研究。 重要的是，当地土著社区的存在提供了一个机会，可以改进考古学中以社区为基础的参与性研究方法。 来自UNC-CH的两名研究人员Patricia A. McAnany Shoshaunna Parks和两名研究生将与东方大学（UNO）的Adolfo Ivan Batún Alpuche博士及其本科生合作。 这项计划拨款的提案将研究尤卡坦半岛从古典末期开始的一系列地震政治变化（800-1000 CE）通过19世纪的影响景观使用以及非精英玛雅家庭成员，这一项目的更广泛影响包括改进玛雅考古学中的方法，将联合收割机和手工切割结合起来，边缘科学与知识共享计划，使土著社区和玛雅文化的生存和保护当地遗产的地方增强。 这项规划赠款之后的长期项目将通过讲习班、无线电广播和当地非政府组织和中小学的表演，为儿童、青年和成人提供教育机会。 美国学生和一名年轻的女教师也将参与这些调查。 青年研究人员参与国际研究是OISE的一个主要目标。

In this planning project researchers from the U.S. and Mexico will catalyze a collaboration between archaeologists at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and the Unversidad del Oriente (UNO) in Vallodolid, Yucatan, Mexico. The collaboration is focused on an archaeological investigation of the interaction of macro-political change with local landscape and residence. Due to the specific occupational history of the Yucatán, this area is a promising locale for this research. Importantly, the presence of local indigenous communities presents an opportunity to refine methods of community-based participatory research within archaeology. Two researchers from UNC-CH, Drs. Patricia A. McAnany & Shoshaunna Parks and two graduate students will collaborate with Dr.Adolfo Ivan Batún Alpuche of Universidad del Oriente (UNO) and his undergraduate students. The proposal that will result from this planning grant will examine how the series of seismic political changes in the Yucatán Peninsula from the Terminal Classic period (800-1000 CE) through the 19th century affected landscape use as well as the quotidian activities of non-elite Maya household members, particularly women and their tribute-related work of cotton cloth production.Broader impacts of this project include the refinement of methods within Maya Archaeology that combine cutting-edge science with knowledge-sharing programs that engage indigenous communities and enhancement of Maya cultural survival and of the conservation of local heritage places. The long-term project to follow this planning grant will offer educational opportunities to children, youth, and adults through workshops, radio broadcasts, and performances via local NGOs and primary/secondary schools. U.S. students and a young female faculty member will also participate in these investigations. Involvement of junior researchers in international research is a major goal of OISE.