Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Craft Production And Population Movement Interaction

在日益全球化的社会中，考古学家在更长的时间尺度上研究跨文化交流具有独特的地位。跟踪新想法如何传播，对于理解工匠如何应对技术、接受熟练的生产者和学习新的工作方式具有广泛的意义。人们是接受、拒绝还是修改这些新技术，取决于它们是如何引入的，以及这些新技术代表了什么。手工艺生产的变化成为研究思想如何在接触的情况下传播(或无法传播)的案例，将自我、身份和文化归属的概念结合在一起。具体地说，这篇论文论述了美国和墨西哥土著群体如何跨越文化边界互动并引入新的陶器制造技术。现代的国际边界人为地分割了当前对这些理解文化的研究，创造了一种关于土著人民如何交换思想和商品的不准确形象。此外，边界和语言鸿沟都阻碍了研究人员之间的交流。研究人员关于这些数据的会议演讲和出版物将把墨西哥北部的考古研究带给说英语的观众，减少现代边界对曾经连续的文化的影响。这项研究将由纽约州立大学宾厄姆顿分校的研究生Tanya Chiykowski进行，并将为她的博士论文提供数据。因此，这将促进她在知识和职业上的进步。史前晚期的美国西南部是一片战争、移民和身份形成的风景。考古学家研究陶工、材料和技术的运动，通过追踪陶瓷风格，使用地质来源来绘制交换地图，并记录技术风格的历史，以了解这一时期的剧变。美国陶艺家开发了广泛的方法和数据库来解决美国西南部的身份和工艺生产问题；然而，墨西哥西北部突然终止了这些研究问题。在索诺拉，考古学家有明确的证据表明公元1300年后人口剧增。亚利桑那州南部的霍霍卡姆部落迁徙到墨西哥索诺拉的祭坛山谷，带来了新的陶瓷技术，并将特里切拉人的常住人口转移到了中马格达莱纳山谷。虽然在中马格达莱纳山谷的Cerro de Trin chera发现了大量的Hohokam陶瓷，这表明Trin chera和Hohokam种群相互作用，但这一过程是如何发生的，以及这些联系的影响都不是很好地理解。是什么过程导致了Cerro de Trin chera如此大比例的外来陶瓷？调查人员将使用陶瓷岩相学和地理信息系统分析来解决贸易、社区迁移和妇女流动的可能性，所有这些都是引入新技术的激烈辩论机制。

In an increasingly global society archaeologists are uniquely positioned to examine cross-cultural exchange along an extended timescale. Tracking how new ideas spread has broad implications for understanding how artisans respond to technologies, accept skilled producers and learn new ways of doing. Whether populations accept, reject, or modify these new technologies depends on how they are introduced, and what these new technologies represent. Changes in craft production becomes a case study of how ideas are transmitted (or fail to be transmitted) in contact situations, bringing together concepts of self, identity and cultural belonging. Specifically, this dissertation addresses how American and Mexican indigenous groups interacted and introduced new pottery manufacturing technologies across a cultural frontier. The modern international border artificially divides current research on these prehispanic cultures, creating an inaccurate image of how indigenous population exchanged ideas and goods. Additionally, both the border and language divide prevent communication between researchers. The researcher's conference presentations and publications on these data will bring northern Mexican archaeological research to an English-speaking audience, diminishing the effect of the modern boundary on cultures that were once continuous. The research will be conducted by Tanya Chiykowski, a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton and will provide data for her doctoral dissertation thesis. Thus it will further her intellectual and professional advancement.The late prehistoric Southwest US was a landscape of warfare, migration and identity formation. Archaeologists study the movement of potters, materials and techniques to understand this period of upheaval, by tracking ceramic styles, using geologic sourcing to map exchange, and recording the history of technological style. American ceramicists have developed extensive methods and databases to address questions of identity and craft production in the U.S. Southwest; however, Northwest Mexico presents an abrupt termination to these research questions. In Sonora, archaeologists have clear evidence of population upheaval after AD 1300. Southern Arizona Hohokam groups migrated into the Altar Valley in Sonora, Mexico, bringing with them new ceramic technologies and displacing a resident Trincheras population to the Middle Magdalena valley. While the presence of large amounts of Hohokam ceramics at Cerro de Trincheras in the Middle Magdalena valley suggests that Trincheras and Hohokam populations interacted, neither how the process occurred nor the impact of those linkages is well understood. What processes caused such a large percentage of "foreign" ceramics at Cerro de Trincheras? The investigators will use ceramic petrography and GIS analysis to address the likelihood of trade, community migration and the movement of women, all hotly debated mechanisms of introducing new technology.