Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant-Trade and Social Boundaries During the Late Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain

博士论文改进赠款——匈牙利大平原新石器时代晚期的贸易和社会边界

• 批准号: 1312027
• 负责人: William Parkinson
• 金额: $ 2.13万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1312027&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Trade

Social and cultural boundaries are highly contested and constantly changing. They do not always correlate with political boundaries (e.g., the social boundaries of former Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, and Romania often cross-cut political demarcations), thus making the study of early social boundaries imperative for scholars to understand the modern developments in the region. With the support of her advisor, Dr. William Parkinson, graduate student Danielle Riebe will conduct research on the relationship between boundaries and interaction during the Late Neolithic (5000-4500 BCE) on the Great Hungarian Plain. Archaeologists often cite interactions between people as a trigger for emergent social complexity as seen through the dissemination of ideas and technology and the spread of agriculture and animal domestication. The Plain offers an ideal location to investigate how interaction, specifically trade, impacts the formation, alteration, and destruction of social and cultural boundaries by focusing on two archaeologically defined groups, the Tisza and Herpály. In an area that is environmentally homogenous, these groups emerged in the archaeological record at the beginning of the Late Neolithic and are differentiated by very distinct material culture, including ceramics and chipped-stone tools. As people trade these materials, their ideas, traditions, techniques, and social practices are diffused at the same time. Analytical techniques, including laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), will be used to assess the composition of ceramic and chipped-stone material in order to model raw material provenience in relation to depositional context. By analyzing how objects are created, where they are constructed, and how they are circulated after production, Ms. Riebe will explore how communities on the Plain differentiated themselves and their neighbors. In addition to investigating theoretical issues concerning the role of interaction in social developments, this project also makes intellectual contributions to the field of anthropology by challenging how cultural boundaries are delineated. Traditionally, boundaries are demarcated based on the identification of similar or dissimilar cultural material. However, this simplistic approach does not account for how boundaries persist in spite of trade, suggesting that more attention be given to the reconstruction of interactions between peoples in order to understand the relationship between regional interactions and the process of boundary formation.This dissertation will contribute to a broader impact by promoting international collaboration between U.S. and Hungarian citizens and scholars, in the study of prehistoric boundaries and social change. Findings will be made available to academics and the public through public lectures, presentations at conferences, peer-reviewed articles and a monograph. All of the findings and interpretations from this project will be included in Ms. Riebe's dissertation, and copies of the dissertation will be provided to all participating institutions. Funding for this project will allow Ms. Riebe to utilize the skills and experiences that she has acquired during her academic training to produce a dissertation that is both anthropologically illuminating and progressive, and that advances the field of anthropology, our knowledge of prehistoric Eastern Europe, and our understanding of socio-political developments in the modern world.

社会和文化界限备受争议，并且不断变化。它们并不总是与政治界限相关（例如，前南斯拉夫，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那，匈牙利和罗马尼亚的社会界限经常跨越政治界限），从而使学者必须了解该地区现代发展的早期社会边界。在她的顾问威廉·帕金森（William Parkinson）博士的支持下，研究生丹妮尔·里伯（Danielle Riebe）将对大匈牙利平原上新石器时代（公元前5000 - 4500年）期间的边界与互动之间的关系进行研究。考古学家经常引用人们之间的相互作用，这是触发新兴社会复杂性的一种触发，通过传播思想和技术以及农业和动物驯化的传播所见。该平原提供了一个理想的位置，以调查互动（特别是贸易）如何通过专注于两个档案（Tisza和Herpály）来影响社会和文化边界的形成，改变和破坏。在环境同质的区域中，这些群体在新石器时代晚期开始时出现在档案中，并通过非常不同的物质文化（包括陶瓷和碎石工具）进行了区分。当人们交易这些材料时，他们的思想，传统，技术和社会实践分析技术，包括激光消融诱导的耦合等离子体质量谱法（LA-ICP-MS），将用于评估陶瓷和碎石材料的组成，以与替代性上下文相关的原始材料对原始材料进行建模。通过分析对象的创建，构造的位置以及生产后如何散发的对象，Riebe女士将探索普通的社区如何区分自己。和他们的邻居。除了调查有关互动在社会发展中作用的理论问题外，该项目还通过挑战文化边界的描述方式对人类学领域做出了智力贡献。传统上，界限是根据对类似或不同文化材料的识别来划定的。但是，这种简单的方法并不能说明尽管进行了贸易，但仍表明人们对人们之间的互动进行了更多关注，以了解区域互动与边界形成过程之间的关系。这项论文将在美国和匈牙利公民和学者之间的国际合作促进研究和社会方面的国际合作，从而有助于更广泛的影响。调查结果将通过公开讲座，会议，同行评审的文章和专着提供给学者和公众。该项目的所有发现和解释都将包括在Riebe女士的论文中，并将向所有参与机构提供论文的副本。该项目的资金将使Riebe女士能够利用她在学术培训期间获得的技能和经验来产生既有人类学上具有启发性和进步性的论文，并提高了人类学领域，我们对史前东欧的了解以及我们对现代世界中社会政治发展的理解。

项目成果

Sourcing Obsidian from Late Neolithic Sites on the Great Hungarian Plain: Preliminary p-XRF Compositional Results and the Socio-Cultural Implications

从匈牙利大平原新石器时代晚期遗址采购黑曜石：初步 p-XRF 成分结果及其社会文化意义

• DOI: 10.24916/iansa.2019.2.1
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica
• 作者: Riebe, Danielle J.