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.

社会和文化的界限是高度争议和不断变化的。它们并不总是与政治边界相关（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边界往往是交叉的政治分界线），因此，研究早期社会边界对于学者了解该地区的现代发展至关重要。在她的导师威廉·帕金森博士的支持下，研究生丹妮尔·里伯将在匈牙利大平原上进行新石器时代晚期（公元前5000-4500年）边界和相互作用之间关系的研究。考古学家经常引用人与人之间的互动作为引发新出现的社会复杂性的触发因素，如思想和技术的传播以及农业和动物驯化的传播。该平原提供了一个理想的地点，可以通过重点关注两个考古学定义的群体--蒂萨人和赫尔帕利人，来研究互动（特别是贸易）如何影响社会和文化边界的形成、改变和破坏。在一个环境同质的地区，这些群体在新石器时代晚期开始时出现在考古记录中，并以非常独特的物质文化区分开来，包括陶瓷和碎石工具。当人们交易这些材料时，他们的思想，传统，技术和社会实践也同时传播。分析技术，包括激光烧蚀-电感耦合等离子体质谱（LA-ICP-MS），将用于评估陶瓷和碎石材料的成分，以模拟与沉积环境有关的原材料来源。通过分析物体是如何被创造出来的，它们是在哪里建造的，以及它们在生产后是如何流通的，Riebe女士将探索平原上的社区如何区分自己和邻居。除了调查有关互动在社会发展中的作用的理论问题外，该项目还通过挑战如何划定文化边界来为人类学领域做出智力贡献。传统上，边界是根据相似或不相似的文化材料来划分的。然而，这种简单化的方法并没有说明边界如何在贸易的情况下持续存在，这表明，为了理解区域互动与边界形成过程之间的关系，应该更多地关注人们之间互动的重建。本文将通过促进美国和匈牙利公民和学者之间的国际合作，史前边界和社会变迁的研究。研究结果将通过公开讲座、会议介绍、同行评审文章和专著向学术界和公众公布。该项目的所有研究结果和解释将列入Riebe女士的论文，论文副本将提供给所有参与机构。Riebe利用她在学术培训期间获得的技能和经验，撰写一篇既具有人类学启发性又具有进步性的论文，并推进人类学领域，我们对史前东欧的了解，以及我们对现代世界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.