Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Visual and Technical Styles: An Integrative Approach to the Identification of Archaeological Social Boundaries

Jodie O 'Gorman，Jeff Chivis将研究不同类型的互动和社会政治和技术思想的共享，这些思想与早期中林地时期（约公元前50年-公元250年）将霍普韦尔式信仰引入西密歇根州有关。在此期间，一个新的史前社会出现在美国中西部。其特点是一个更复杂的宗教系统和社会组织形式，它负责纪念碑的网站，其中包括土墩“金字塔”和人口数以千计。虽然人们对核心区的发展有很多了解，但霍普韦尔式的影响力如何传播却不太清楚。一些考古学家认为，是思想而不是人从核心向外移动，而其他人则认为主要是间接的影响传播。通过对一个边远地区的研究，奇维斯先生将直接解决这个问题。这项研究很重要，因为它提供了洞察如何在传统社会中的人和思想可以传播和互动，在复杂的时尚和延长的时间。在西密歇根州，这种霍普韦尔式的转变是由一个独特的太平间计划的实施，包括建造土丘，利用严重的夹杂物，并在陶器上的特色设计元素的应用证明。 奇维斯先生的研究将研究来自密歇根州西部和印第安纳州西北部的中林地陶器，以记录霍普韦尔信息最初传播到密歇根州西部所涉及的不同类型的社区和相互作用。在考古学背景下，陶瓷是丰富和保存完好的，并有可能提供深入了解其生产者的行为和文化联系。奇维斯先生的研究采用了综合的方法，将风格陶器分析与成分分析结合起来。 利用陶瓷岩相学作为成分分析的主要方法，这项研究设计将探索新的方法来发现考古记录中的身份标记，并将允许人们区分思想的传播与人们的实际运动。这种方法将提供一个显着更全面的身份，社区和互动网络的识别比以前可能在研究region.The更广泛的影响，这项研究依赖于这样一个事实，即，作为联邦政府承认的密歇根州部落的成员，奇维斯先生将提高考古学内代表性不足/少数民族个人的参与。 Chivis先生将通过可能的同行审查出版物和在各种全国会议上的介绍，向他的部落和更大的人类学界提供由此产生的数据。 向当地部落实体传播这一信息将使他们对其过去有一个补充的视角，并可促进学术界与美洲土著部落政府之间更频繁和更有价值的交流。

Under the supervision of Dr. Jodie O'Gorman, Jeff Chivis will examine the varying types of interactions and the sharing of sociopolitical and technological ideas that were associated with the introduction of Hopewellian beliefs into west Michigan during the early Middle Woodland period (~50 B.C. - A.D. 250). During this time interval a new prehistoric society emerged in the US Midwest. Characterized by a more complex religions system and form of social organization it is responsible for monumental sites which included mounded "pyramids" and populations numbered in the thousands. While much is understood about development in the core area, how Hopewellian influence spread is much less clear. Some archaeologists believe that it was ideas rather than people which moved outwards from the core while others argue that it was primarily indirect influence which spread. Through study in one outlying region Mr. Chivis will address this question directly. The research is important because it provides insight into how in traditional societies people and ideas can spread and interact in complex fashion and over extended periods of time.In west Michigan, this Hopewellian transition is evidenced by the implementation of a distinct mortuary program involving the construction of burial mounds, the utilization of grave inclusions, and the application of characteristic design elements on pottery vessels. Mr. Chivis' research will examine Middle Woodland pottery from west Michigan and northwest Indiana to record the different types of communities and interactions involved in the initial spread of Hopewellian information into west Michigan. Ceramics are abundant and well preserved in archaeological contexts and have the potential to provide insight into the behaviors and cultural affiliations of their producers. Mr. Chivis' research employs a comprehensive methodology by uniting stylistic pottery analysis with compositional analysis. Utilizing ceramic petrography as the primary method of compositional analysis, this research design will explore new ways to discover markers of identity in the archaeological record and will permit one to distinguish between the spread of ideas vs. the actual movement of people. This methodology will provide a significantly more comprehensive identification of identity, communities, and interaction networks than has previously been possible within the study region.The broader impact of this research rests on the fact that, as a member of a federally recognized tribe in Michigan, Mr. Chivis will be enhancing the involvement of underrepresented/minority individuals within archaeology. Mr. Chivis will make the resulting data available to his tribe and the larger anthropological community through potential peer-reviewed publications and presentations at various national conferences. Dissemination of this information to local tribal entities will provide them with a supplementary perspective of their past and could promote more frequent and worthwhile communication between academia and Native American tribal governments.