The Lake Pátzcuaro Archaeological Project: Urbanism at Angamuco During The Postclassic Period

帕茨夸罗湖考古项目：后古典时期安加穆科的城市化

• 批准号: 1220016
• 负责人: Christopher Fisher
• 金额: $ 19.24万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1220016&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lake; tzcuaro; Archaeological; Project; Urbanism

Cities form the core of modern society and a deeper understanding of the evolution of the urban form can potentially help to understand the modern world. One place that can make an important archaeological contribution to this debate is the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico (LPB), which at the time of European contact was the core of the Late Postclassic (LPC) (A.D. 1350-1520) Purépecha Empire. This National Science Foundation award will fund a program of excavation at the newly discovered city of Angamuco to test models for the development of complex societies in the region. This project develops from over 3 years of NSF sponsored full-coverage survey (2009-2011) as part of the Legacies of Resilience: The Lake Pátzcauro Basin Archaeological Project (LORE-LPB). To test the models developed from this work researchers will excavate architectural complexes within two neighborhoods that, based on surface remains, had unique time and social associations. Efforts will be focused on addressing three questions concerning the Angamuco occupation. 1) When was the predominate occupation of Angamuco and how does it relate to the development of complex societies in the region? 2) Can initial survey results concerning the function of individual structures and the spatial arrangement of these buildings be confirmed? Do domestic, public, storage, and ceremonial functions that inferred from surface remains conform with excavation data? 3) Can social differentiation be identified through excavation? If so, how does it evolve through time and how is this related to Empire formation. Testing models that have been developed during the survey of Angamuco will substantially expand and deepen them and pave the way for future research. Results from this work will provide radiocarbon determinations that can help outline the timing, intensity, and location of the Angamuco occupation during the Postclassic. Stratigraphically dated assemblages from the Postclassic period will allow the creation of a more accurate ceramic chronology for this critical time interval. The refined temporal control will allow more accurately determination of the impact of Empire formation on the Angamuco polity.The Angamuco case study can potentially yield important new insights into the development of complex societies in western Mexico, and in the process make an important contribution to anthropological understanding of the urban process. This is far from a simple academic debate in that global environmental change is increasingly placing urban dwellers at risk of increased poverty, displacement, and health risk.

城市是现代社会的核心，深入了解城市形态的演变可能有助于理解现代世界。一个可以为这场辩论做出重要考古贡献的地方是墨西哥米却肯州的帕茨夸罗湖盆地（LPB），在欧洲人接触的时候，它是后古典时代晚期（LPC）（公元1350-1520年）Purépecha帝国的核心。这个国家科学基金会奖将资助在新发现的Angamuco城市的挖掘计划，以测试该地区复杂社会发展的模型。该项目是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）赞助的为期3年的全面调查（2009-2011）的一部分，作为恢复力的遗产：帕茨考罗湖流域考古项目（LORE-LPB）的一部分。为了测试从这项工作中开发的模型，研究人员将在两个社区内挖掘建筑群，这些建筑群基于表面遗迹，具有独特的时间和社会联系。将集中努力解决与安加穆科占领有关的三个问题。1)安加穆科的主要占领是在什么时候，它与该地区复杂社会的发展有什么关系？ 2)有关个别建筑物的功能和空间布局的初步调查结果能否确定？ 从表面遗骸推断的家庭、公共、储存和仪式功能是否与挖掘数据相符？ 3)社会分化能通过挖掘来识别吗？ 如果是这样，它是如何随着时间的推移而演变的，以及这与帝国的形成有什么关系。 在调查Angamuco期间开发的测试模型将大大扩展和深化这些模型，并为未来的研究铺平道路。这项工作的结果将提供放射性碳测定，可以帮助概述后经典时期Angamuco占领的时间，强度和位置。 后古典时期的地层年代组合将允许创建一个更准确的陶瓷年表，这一关键的时间间隔。 精确的时间控制将允许更准确地确定帝国形成对Angamuco polities.The安加穆科个案研究的影响可能会产生重要的新的见解复杂的社会在墨西哥西部的发展，并在此过程中作出重要贡献，人类学的城市过程的理解。 这远非一个简单的学术辩论，因为全球环境变化正日益使城市居民面临贫困、流离失所和健康风险增加的风险。