Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Guan River Valley Regional Full-Coverage Survey

博士论文改进资助：灌江流域区域全覆盖调查

• 批准号: 1247931
• 负责人: Stephen Kowalewski
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 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: 2012-12-15 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1247931&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Guan

Under the supervision of Dr. Stephen A. Kowalewski, Yanxi Wang will conduct an archaeological survey in the Middle Guan River valley in Nanyang, China. This study will map, describe, collect and date artifacts from the earliest human occupation, at least 8000 years ago, up to historic time. The ground surface of the Guan River valley is stable and free of vegetation in the winter months, which allows the project to find and date most of the ancient cities, towns, villages, and temporary camps occupied during its long history. The goal is to reconstruct the settlement and population history. Ms. Wang wishes to understand how China's agricultural system and rural and urban life developed. This is relevant for understanding the origins and later development of agriculture, urbanization, and land-use and landscape history in the regionThe study area is situated at the geographical transition of millet-growing North China and rice-growing South China. The Middle Guan River valley has received little archaeological attention, considering its rich cultural heritage and its geopolitically strategic location in the development of Chinese history. In contrast to some of the archaeologically better-known parts of China, with loess plains and broad river valleys, the Guan River and its nearby upland hills has a more diverse natural environment, which probably played an important role especially in the early development of the Neolithic way of life - the first villages and the development of an economy based on domesticated plants and animals. The project will use full-coverage pedestrian survey as the major data collection method to achieve the research goal. Regional survey, which is much less costly and more protective of cultural heritage compared to excavation, will help record archaeological sites and environmental conditions, and produce collections of ceramics, stone tools, and other artifact types. This information will be used to create settlement pattern maps by time period. Combined with documentation of historic and modern population, agriculture, and other land-use practices, the survey will provide data measuring prehistoric population size, and assess the temporal changes in the relationship between community, environment, and agricultural economy. The survey will provide information at the appropriate long-term and broad spatial scale necessary to address how human societies responded to the impacts generated by agriculture and maintained agricultural systems from incipient to more intensive and developed stages. Results will be published as a report in Chinese and English, and then a more detailed report in the form of doctoral dissertation. The project will provide valuable but unfamiliar Chinese archaeological data to Western audiences. It will bridge the gap between the research methods and theories in Chinese archaeology and North American archaeology and enhance communication between research institutions. More importantly, it will also help the Chinese and English public learn about the diversity and complexity of ancient China and the past of human society.

在Stephen A. Kowalewski博士的指导下，王彦西将在中国南阳的关河流域进行考古调查。这项研究将绘制、描述、收集和年代测定最早人类占领时期（至少 8000 年前）直至历史时期的文物。关河流域的地表在冬季稳定且没有植被，这使得该项目能够找到并测定其漫长历史中大部分的古城、城镇、村庄和临时营地。目标是重建定居点和人口历史。王女士希望了解中国的农业体系和城乡生活是如何发展的。这对于了解该地区农业、城市化、土地利用和景观历史的起源和后来的发展具有重要意义。研究区位于华北粟区和华南区稻区的地理过渡地带。考虑到关河流域丰富的文化遗产及其在中国历史发展中的地缘政治战略地位，关河流域很少受到考古关注。与中国一些考古学上更为熟知的黄土平原和宽阔河谷地区相比，关河及其附近的山地丘陵拥有更加多样化的自然环境，这可能在新石器时代生活方式的早期发展——第一个村庄和以驯化动植物为基础的经济发展中发挥了重要作用。本项目将以全覆盖行人调查作为主要数据收集手段来实现研究目标。与发掘相比，区域调查成本低得多，对文化遗产的保护也更强，将有助于记录考古遗址和环境条件，并收集陶瓷、石器和其他文物类型。该信息将用于按时间段创建聚落模式图。结合历史和现代人口、农业和其他土地利用实践的记录，该调查将提供衡量史前人口规模的数据，并评估社区、环境和农业经济之间关系的时间变化。该调查将提供适当的长期和广泛空间尺度的信息，以解决人类社会如何应对农业产生的影响以及如何维持农业系统从萌芽阶段到更加集约化和发达阶段的问题。研究结果将以中英文报告形式发表，然后以博士论文的形式发表更详细的报告。该项目将为西方观众提供有价值但陌生的中国考古数据。它将弥合中国考古学和北美考古学研究方法和理论的差距，加强研究机构之间的交流。更重要的是，这也将帮助中英公众了解古代中国和人类社会的多样性和复杂性。