Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Evaluating Political Competition Between Chacoan- Style Great Houses in the Southern Cibola Region, West-Central New Mexico

在Andrew Duff博士的指导下，在国家科学基金会的支持下，Kristin Safi在华盛顿州立大学的博士研究将研究局部政治竞争在多大程度上将移民组织到新墨西哥州中西部的合作多民族定居点，这是一个独特的文化环境，位于两个祖先文化传统的交汇处，普韦布洛和莫高伦。这项研究的重点是在公元1050-1150年期间，来自两个祖先传统的移民在这个以查科风格的大房子为中心的地区形成了多民族社区。这些巨大的房屋是对新墨西哥州查科峡谷纪念性建筑的缩小模拟。查科峡谷和四角地区发现的较小的大房子被认为是古代美国西南部规模空前的社会和/或政治一体化系统。然而，很少有研究调查大房子是如何与查科峡谷联系在一起的，或者大房子在当地社区中扮演的角色。本研究旨在通过评估“查科地区体系”边缘大家族社区之间的政治竞争如何缓解来自不同民族传统群体的人口快速增长所造成的社会压力来实现这一目标。对移民融合和社区组织的研究将更好地构建多民族社区内身份表达的研究框架，并将进一步了解多民族群体内群体隶属关系与合作之间的相互作用，以及与研究当代全球异质人口中的移民融合和社区认同相关的问题。本研究以Largo Gap大屋及其相关社区为研究对象。本研究的目的是：(1)描述Largo Gap大屋的结构和使用年代；(2)描述Largo Gap支持社区的特征，以及大房子在该社区中的作用；(3)将Largo Gap大屋与其最近的两个邻居Cox Ranch Pueblo和Cerro Pomo的聚落格局和使用情况进行比较；(4)探索该地区的大房子与同期四角的大房子社区之间的联系，这将有助于澄清“查科地区系统”的本质。对Largo Gap周围土地的系统调查和对Largo Gap大房子和相关社区地点的有限测试将提供解决这些问题所需的数据。这些数据，当与Duff在Cox牧场和Cerro Pomo豪宅社区收集的数据相结合时，将允许Safi评估政治竞争模型，多民族社区整合，以及地方和区域尺度上的豪宅功能。这项研究促进了对考古科学和保护我们民族遗产的更广泛的认识。它还通过培训各级教育的妇女在实地和实验室进行考古研究来促进妇女更多地参与科学。该项目通过咨询和研究报告促进学术界和后裔社区之间的接触，并通过社区外展吸引当地居民，以促进对美洲原住民历史的了解，保护遗产资源，并促进研究人员、这些古老社区的后裔和该地区现有居民之间的关系。

Under the direction of Dr. Andrew Duff, and with support from the National Science Foundation, Kristin Safi's doctoral research at Washington State University will examine the degree to which localized political competition organized migrants into cooperative multi-ethnic settlements in west-central New Mexico, a unique cultural setting at the interface of two ancestral cultural traditions, the Pueblo and Mogollon. This research focuses on the A.D. 1050-1150 period, when migrants from both ancestral traditions formed multi-ethnic communities in this area centered around Chacoan-style great houses. These great houses represent scaled-down emulations of the monumental architecture found at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Chaco Canyon and the smaller great houses found throughout the Four Corners area has been argued to be a socially and/or politically integrated system of unparalleled scale in the ancient American Southwest. However, little research has investigated how great houses articulated with Chaco Canyon or the role great houses played within their local communities. This research aims to do so by evaluating how political competition between great house communities on the margins of the "Chacoan regional system" mitigated the social stresses caused by rapid population increase by groups from distinct ethnic traditions. Research on migrant integration and community organization will better frame studies of identity expression within multi-ethnic communities and will further knowledge of the interplay between group affiliation and cooperation within multi-ethnic groups, questions relevant to studying migrant integration and community identity in contemporary heterogeneous populations worldwide. This study focuses on the Largo Gap great house and its associated community. The study aims to: (1) characterize the construction and chronology of use at the Largo Gap great house; (2) characterize the Largo Gap support community, and the role of the great house within this community; (3) compare the settlement pattern around, and use of the Largo Gap great house to its two nearest neighbors, Cox Ranch Pueblo and Cerro Pomo; and (4) to explore the articulation between great houses in this region with contemporaneous great house communities across the Four Corners, which will help clarify the nature of the "Chacoan regional system." Systematic survey of lands surrounding Largo Gap and limited testing of the Largo Gap great house and associated community sites will provide the data needed to address these questions. These data, when combined with that collected by Duff at the Cox Ranch and Cerro Pomo great house communities, will permit Safi to evaluate models of political competition, multi-ethnic community integration, and great house function at local and regional scales.This research promotes a wider appreciation for archaeological science and the preservation our national heritage. It also advances increased participation of women in science by training women at all educational levels to conduct archaeological research in the field and laboratory. This project promotes engagement between academia and descendent communities through consultation and research presentations, and engages local residents through community outreach to promote increased understanding of Native American history, the conservation of heritage resources, and to foster relationships between researchers, the descendants of these ancient communities, and the region's current residents.