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

在安德鲁·达夫博士的指导下，在国家科学基金会的支持下，克里斯汀·萨菲在华盛顿州立大学的博士研究将考察本地化的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多民族合作定居点，这是一个独特的文化背景，处于两个祖先文化传统-普韦布洛人和莫高隆人的交界处。这项研究主要集中在公元1050-1150年间，来自两个祖先传统的移民在这一地区形成了以查科风格的大房子为中心的多民族社区。这些伟大的房屋代表了新墨西哥州查科峡谷发现的不朽建筑的缩小仿制品。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无与伦比的规模的社会和/或政治一体化系统。然而，很少有研究调查豪宅如何与查科峡谷相关联，或者豪宅在当地社区中扮演的角色。这项研究旨在通过评估“查科地区系统”边缘的大家庭社区之间的政治竞争如何缓解来自不同种族传统的群体因人口快速增长而造成的社会压力来做到这一点。关于移民融入和社区组织的研究将更好地框架多族裔社区内身份表达的研究，并将进一步了解群体隶属和多种族群体内合作之间的相互作用，以及与研究当代世界不同种族人口中的移民融入和社区认同有关的问题。这项研究的重点是拉戈盖普大房子和它的相关社区。这项研究的目的是：(1)描述拉戈·盖普大房子的建造和使用年表；(2)描述拉戈·盖普支持社区的特征，以及大房子在这个社区中的作用；(3)比较拉戈·盖普大房子周围的居住模式和使用情况，以及它与最近的两个邻居--考克斯牧场普韦布洛和塞罗波莫；以及(4)探索该地区的大房子与四角同时的大房子社区之间的联系，这将有助于澄清“查科地区系统”的性质。对拉戈峡谷周围的土地进行系统调查，并对拉戈峡谷大房子和相关社区遗址进行有限的测试，将提供解决这些问题所需的数据。这些数据，与达夫在考克斯牧场和塞罗波莫大房子社区收集的数据相结合，将使SAFI能够评估地方和地区规模的政治竞争、多种族社区融合和大房子功能的模型。这项研究促进了对考古科学和我们国家遗产保护的更广泛的欣赏。它还通过培训各级教育水平的妇女在实地和实验室进行考古研究，促进妇女更多地参与科学工作。该项目通过咨询和研究报告促进学术界和后代社区之间的接触，并通过社区外联使当地居民参与进来，以促进对美洲原住民历史的更多了解，保护遗产资源，并促进研究人员、这些古老社区的后代和该地区当前居民之间的关系。

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.