Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Community Dynamics in a Traditional Society

博士论文改进补助金：传统社会中的社区动态

• 批准号: 1342025
• 负责人: Colin Grier
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 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: 2013-09-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1342025&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Community

Cultural developments of the last 10,000 years have involved two critical transitions in human lifeways: the emergence of the first settled villages and the development of complex societies which characterize modern life. Patrick Dolan, with the support of the National Science Foundation and under the guidance of Dr. Colin Grier at Washington State University, will conduct fieldwork at the Dionisio Point site a prehistoric hunter-gatherer village on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. This village was occupied at a time when the inhabitants of this region achieved levels of social complexity rarely witnessed outside of agricultural societies, providing an important counter-balance to explanations of social complexity as a consequence of the emergence of food production.In coastal southwestern British Columbia, Canada, the emergence of settled plankhouse villages between 2500 and 1000 years ago corresponds to a period of increasingly demarcated social status, wealth, and eventually greater warfare. Archaeological research in this and the surrounding region indicates that the emergence and organization of large multi-family households were critical in the unfolding of these cultural developments. However, due to a shortage of empirical data, the social and economic articulations between households within a village remain uncertain. Were villages cohesive collective socially and economically? Were they organized from the top-down around the demands of powerful households? Or were households relatively autonomous of one another, pursuing their own goals on a regional stage? Few settlements dating to this period have been sampled in a manner that permits the evaluation of these alternatives, and this research will fill this gap in knowledge.This project will be one of the first to systematically examine these questions within a single village in southwestern British Columbia. The fieldwork component of this research will be conducted at the Dionisio Point site, a multi-household, Coast Salish village occupied between 1500 and 1300 years ago on Galiano Island in coastal southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Evaluating the structure of inter-household economic relations in this village will require refining the occupational history for the village at Dionisio Point as well as characterizing long-term household production and consumption practices. Using excavated materials collected from household architecture and refuse deposits associated with each of the five houses at the site, this project will recover materials that will permit radiocarbon dating, as well as the comparison of the remains of the fauna households consumed, the tools they used, and their respective storage capacities. This research promotes collaboration between researchers in the USA and Canada, as well as a greater appreciation of the value of prehistory to the public and of the cultural heritage of local First Nations peoples. This project will contribute to the professional development of graduate students in both field methods and laboratory analyses. Results will be disseminated widely in academic circles through professional publications, and to the public through talks and newsletters. Ultimately, this project will promote continued engagement of academic archaeologists with descendent communities and the Galiano Island resident community, fostering improved collaboration in the preservation of the cultural heritage of this region.

过去1万年的文化发展涉及人类生活方式的两个关键转变：第一个定居村庄的出现和现代生活特征的复杂社会的发展。帕特里克多兰，在国家科学基金会的支持下，并在华盛顿州立大学的科林格里尔博士的指导下，将在迪奥尼西奥点遗址进行实地考察，这是一个位于加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省海岸的史前狩猎采集村庄。这个村庄被占领的时候，这个地区的居民达到了农业社会以外很少看到的社会复杂性水平，为粮食生产的出现提供了一个重要的平衡来解释社会复杂性。在加拿大西南部沿海的不列颠哥伦比亚省，在2500年到1000年前，定居的农舍村庄的出现对应着一个社会地位、财富和最终更大的战争日益划分的时期。在这一地区和周边地区的考古研究表明，多户大家庭的出现和组织在这些文化发展的展开中至关重要。然而，由于缺乏经验数据，一个村庄内家庭之间的社会和经济联系仍然不确定。村庄在社会和经济上是否有凝聚力？他们是围绕着强大家族的需求自上而下组织起来的吗？还是家庭之间相对自治，在区域舞台上追求自己的目标？很少有定居点可以追溯到这一时期已经抽样的方式，允许这些替代品的评估，这项研究将填补这一知识的空白。这个项目将是第一个系统地研究这些问题在西南部不列颠哥伦比亚省的一个单一的村庄。本研究的实地考察部分将在Dionisio Point遗址进行，该遗址是加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省西南沿海的Galiano岛上一个多户、1500年至1300年前居住的海岸Salish村庄。要评价该村家庭间经济关系的结构，就需要完善Dionisio Point村的职业历史，并确定长期家庭生产和消费做法的特点。该项目将利用从现场五所房屋的住户建筑和垃圾堆积物中收集的挖掘材料，回收可进行放射性碳年代测定的材料，并对住户消费的动物遗骸、他们使用的工具及其各自的储存能力进行比较。这项研究促进了美国和加拿大的研究人员之间的合作，以及更好地了解史前史对公众的价值和当地第一民族人民的文化遗产。该项目将有助于研究生在现场方法和实验室分析方面的专业发展。研究结果将通过专业出版物在学术界广泛传播，并通过讲座和通讯向公众传播。最终，该项目将促进学术考古学家与后代社区和加利亚诺岛居民社区的持续接触，促进在保护该地区文化遗产方面的合作。